First, I will apologize for putting words into your mouth for I assumed and in this case I was incorrect. Next time, we play you I will seek you out, shake your hand and apologize face to face, because it means more than over social media. I have no problem admitting, that I posted a rant in the polls section. I will repost word for word (saved in my notes) in that section after posting this reply and I will admit I was a bit upset of the final poll tabulation.
If I remember right, you had the same rant (maybe not as extensive as mine) at the end of the year last year for your Diamonds04 team not getting the respect they deserved after a great run to end the season. Finishing 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] in GAPPS beating multiple teams that were ranked higher than you in the final tabulation was, I believe, completely wrong. I agree you guys should have been ranked in the top 10 and even above us. I don’t know how many great runs you had in tournaments, but I know it was a lot. Looks like you have deleted it or I skipped over it not wanting to spend a lot of time on it. If you deny that you posted something like this, that’s fine I have no way of proving it.
You are right, I do a lot of promoting about our team with posting on tSZ, promoting our website, Facebook, and Twitter. BUT, It’s promoting our team, getting our name out there, being excited (possibly over-zealous) about our organization and the game of Fastpitch. I believe we have a lot to offer. It’s a fun time for my family and teaching the game of softball to my little ones coming up rec and now travel. They are like a sponge trying to learn the techniques they see on older high school girls, college girls, and pro girls doing. (mine the other day was trying to slap off of Cat Osterman in the house here
https://vine.co/v/eHdwzahdu3W )They love it and are excited about it and I love it.
IT is all about promoting our team and maybe I am going out of control with it. I am trying to do everything I can to promote Stingray name, because we do have good people, a good coaching staff, good families, and I firmly believe and feel that our OHIO STINGRAYS04 name was wrongly dragged through the mud earlier this year by a video you posted. To think that was a “coached move” and trying to purposely hurt another opposing player at 10U is unthinkable/unfathomable to me. I’m not here to change your thinking of the video, but obviously, you saw the post and how there was an eventual “piling on” and thinking that we have a less than respectful team. I thought we could of handled it between coaching staffs privately, but that’s not what happened right or wrong. Maybe this is my way to trying to show everyone, hey look at our team and that we do things the right way in our organization.
I don’t know all the reasons for the move to the Outlaws, but I can tell you that the Wolff guy looks like he has his stuff together. Talk about me promoting… and you know what, I love what he is doing. The website, the posts, facebook, twitter, going out there traveling with his girls to Colorado promoting his girls…. And guess what, I am trying to do the exact same thing, but I am not trying to get them a scholarship or college coaches to take a peek at them right now at 11U, but there will be a time when it will be needed. Right now, I am just trying to say, “hey look at us, we ARE a great team, with great people, great girls, in a great organization.” Never once have I put another organization, coach, or player down. Good Luck this season and again, I apologize for putting words in your mouth. See you and your daughter out on the diamond.
-Matt Bailey
FYI -- I have reposted the deleted post here (see post #13
http://www.thesoftballzone.com/showthread.php?9803-Final-10U-Coaches-Poll-(7-14-15)-RESULTS!!!/page2 )
This guy ^
