Game tactics , using the clock in time limit games.

[The Dude]

Let's off by stating how much I hate these 1.5 hour and less time limits on games. Yeah if it's a blowout run 'em off the field, but how many games have you personally sat through where you said to yourself 'if we/they had just another inning or two, we/they would have come back'. Come backs are important to any kid learning a sport. It teaches to play from gun to gun. It's really a life lesson, as well. Working a count should never be considered stalling. It's a huge part of baseball/softball. It teaches the importance of patience. The first pitch you see isn't always 'your pitch'. Onto coaches stalling (calls for shoe tying, unnecessary mound meetings, having catcher take forever to get out there after hitting, etc) it's simply bush league. Any coach that does this is an arse! These are kids, what are you teaching them? We want to win every game, but not that way. Wouldn't you rather see your competition get better, too? That will make your girls better in the long run, even if you have to take a loss now and then. Quit living out your childhood fantasy and be a man/woman! Maybe TD's should schedule less pool play games and let the games play out. This is a tough call. Understandably you don't want a game that is 17-0 in the third inning to keep dragging on.

 

[Hilliarddad3]

That's why our daughters catching coaches had them do a Mr Miagi style .....put on your equipment, take off your equipment, put on your equipment drill over and over so they could be out in position before the center fielder got out there.....

 

[number5]

Let's off by stating how much I hate these 1.5 hour and less time limits on games. Yeah if it's a blowout run 'em off the field, but how many games have you personally sat through where you said to yourself 'if we/they had just another inning or two, we/they would have come back'. Come backs are important to any kid learning a sport. It teaches to play from gun to gun. It's really a life lesson, as well. Working a count should never be considered stalling. It's a huge part of baseball/softball. It teaches the important of patience. The first pitch you see isn't always 'your pitch'. Onto coaches stalling (calls for shoe tying, unnecessary mound meetings, having catcher take forever to get out there after hitting, etc) it's simply bush league. Any coach that does this is an arse! These are kids, what are you teaching them? We want to win every game, but not that way. Wouldn't you rather see your competition get better, too? That will make your girls better in the long run, even if you have to take a loss now and then. Quit living out your childhood fantasy and be a man/woman! Maybe TD's should schedule less pool play games and let the games play out. This is a tough call. Understandably you don't want a game that is 17-0 in the third inning to keep dragging on.

I agree 100%, tie the shoe is bush league. But if my catcher takes the same amount of time to get ready, then it's our normal pace. The fact is we are teaching them life lessons. There are time limits to everything. If i had an extra day or two at work to get a project done, it might have been done. But sometimes we don't have that luxury. If it's not done in a set amount of time there are consequences. We have to deal with what has been delt to us. Overcome and conquer. The best way to not have to deal with a slow down game is not to put yourself in that situation. Is easy to sit here and speak of the ideal situation, but as I stated. Life is full of difficult roads to take. Do the best you can and try not to put yourself on the wrong side of the path. Then you willnt have to deal with the situation you are in. I've been on both sides and I'll teach a life lesson from which every side we were delt that day.

and I truly wish we all played 7 innings.

 

[Fastball19]

It should be changed so that when there is less than 10 minutes left on the clock and the coach wants to pull some douchebagary tactic by slowly walking to the mound in his slowest walk every to talk to the pitcher, the umpire should pause the time. Let the girls play.

 

[ech92]

We did have an ump one time stop the clock for injuries . I wish all umps would do this . If time limits were an hour & a half or longer , most coaches would have no issues with timed games and the girls would actually get to play a 7 inning game !

 

[coachjwb]

Hate, hate, hate time limits ... and despise limits shorter than 1:15 ... but ... the reason we have them is so that tourneys can keep on schedule ... if exceptions are made, it defeats the purpose ...

 

[crystlemc]

A lot of tournaments in WPA do the 70 minute, finish the inning, plus one. I loved it when DD played those. No clock manipulation.