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drop-dead time limits
concession stands without hamburgers
rain delays
rain
forecast of rain
rain songs on the radio on the way to a tourney
pens that run out of ink and mechanical pencils that run out of lead
sour grape posts (i swear this one isn't--i'm just venting!)
EZ-ups that snag my fingers
when the wheels of my cooler get muddy
rain
ringer having more posts than me in a 24-hour period
port-a-johns
rain
rain before a tourney

sorry, I just wanted to vent before i hit the sack : :-[ :-X

 

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I saw the first line of your post, and thought I'd share something new to me from the a Florida ASA qualifier I am coaching in this weekend. The tournament is all ASA rules, except they have changed the time limit (I had always thought ASA qualifiers had to be full games, but I'm probably wrong). They do an hour and ten minute time limit... kind of. At an hour and ten minutes, the umpire must announce the time is dead. You then finish that inning, and then play one more inning with no time limit. The idea is to allow both teams the opportunity to know that they have one more at bat, rather than trying to rush through things to sneak in under the gun. I really like the idea, and I wondered if it was isolated to down here, or if that was a trend that had been seen elsewhere.

 

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Coach T,

I've been floating that idea for a couple of years now, but nobody ever seems interested in it. I have yet to see it adopted in any game in this area.

I think this is an excellent format to both get the games in within a set time frame and prevent the rampant "clock abuse" that everyone seems to hate.

 

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I kind of like that practice. We'll see what we can do.

 

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when it rains on Friday and that day they cancel your entire weekend of games... happened to our team twice now.

 

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Amen straightleg!! only good thing about my 4 hour wait this weekend. I got to go see dd's twin play part of two rec games. Lot of driving but it was worth the miles to see her play. On Saturday, I got to see all that is great with travel ball and all that is bad with travel ball. Left the house at 9:00 and got home around midnight. What a day!!!!

 

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8:30 a.m. games? We should be so lucky. We had 2 8:00 a.m. games this weekend, which meant reporting at 7:00 a.m. and leaving for the field from the hotel at 6:15 a.m. But the tournament was great, so it's definitely a love-hate relationship.

 

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TD's that don't post results.

 

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TD's that don't post results.

YES!!! Why can't we get to the point where we have almost Real Time results posted on tournament web sites? :-/

 

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when the team waiting to play the winner of your game even sees you are getting homered! ARGHHHHHHH

Ok, I feel much better.

I hate running out of water during a hot game,
Players using the last of your sunscreen and I get blistered.
Forgetting my lip balm sunscreen (OUCH)
Paying $3.99 a gallon for gas

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

 

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3 day tournies where you go back and forth between 2 parks 3 times ..............and the parks are 30 plus miles apart . really puts the "travel" in travel ball. I'd guess we drove over 100 miles just going from location to location.

$ 3 french fries
$6.50 cheeseburger platters
$ 13 weekend admission pass
$3.50 for a lg fountain soda
"No coolers "
$2.50 powerades
Listening to cool male athelets watching your 12u girls game HOLLERING " Man there is no way I could hit that FU#$%ing pitch" about once an inning.
wasting time between innings
rain on the weekends
MD

 

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When your dd has been playing travel ball for 3 years and still has to be reminded to get her cleats (or some other important piece of equipment) before leaving home. ?>

...and paying $3.99 for a gallon of gas...

 

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diamondwatcher ---did your kid do that this weekend also or were you just poking fun at me ? We discovered no cleats about 120 miles from home on friday > PS you the same DW from some other infamous board ?

 

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Same one md. No my kid didn't do that this weekend, but has before. This weekend she forgot her mouthpiece.

Your dd seriously forgot her cleats this weekend? did not know, I swear. . . just a coincidence. ;D

 

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I hatel

long walks from the parkinglot with a pop-up net, a camera bag and a bucket of balls

see above and realizing your sunscreen is still in your car

8:00 am game - 2:00 pm game - 8:00 pm game - but its compuware so its a true Love hate thing

breakfast at the hotel with no bananas

the smell of my hat after the 8:00pm game

when a lousy straight up the river beats my 3 of a kind

thinking you'll treat yourself to some sam adams at the hotel and realizing it doesn't have twist off caps

sending a girl home and getting her hard tagged at the plate

talking to pretty moms between innings anf getting plunked with a bad warm up throw

thinking the cleaning lady will take car of empties from the 8 people that played cards in your room that night and realizing that in MIchigan ?all those bottles were worth a dime each and she didn't want to take them by mistake - and she turns off the AC during the humid 87 degree day and the beer smells like Statmans garage after a buckeye party - at least the room didn't smell like stale sam adams cherry wheat....

I love walking back to the car with a camera bag, a bucket of balls a pop up net ... and a trophy

 

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MD,

Only 2 parks ? We had to take the tour of all 3 involved.

Did you have a coupon for the Powerade? Mine cost more like 2.90.

 

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I hate complaining about the parks being far apart but it's just tough with high gas prices. If you knew you played at one park on frid/sat then the other on sunday you could book your hotel accordingly, but you can't wait til a week out to be booking hotels a week prior. We got the rumpke - Rivershore -rumpke tour. The concession prices at rumpke are just out of hand.
Oh well , it's only money MD

 

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I HATE

Hotels that double charge my credit card

Hotel pools with a oil slick

lazy umps

running out of davids sunflower seeds

my neighbor with the perfect yard

having my dd get on ofc and see dice's rude, vulgar comments

 

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One dd in Ashville, one dd in Wheeling
One dd at Compuware, one dd at SluggerFest
One dd at Pickerington, one in Wheeling
One dd at NSA States, one in Buffalo

Love Stingray Weekend and NSA World Series!

 

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I HATE

having my dd get on ofc and see dice's rude, vulgar comments

Let it go!! :-X