Recent content by MightyMO

Welcome to Discuss Fastpitch

Your FREE Account is waiting to the Best Softball Community on the Web.

  1. MightyMO

    College Roster Sizes, sorry some of you don't get to go with us~

    I should clarify, the coaches who told her they were expanding rosters didn't actually tell her the last sentence about the reasoning behind it. That is my opinion based on some info from other contacts who have been involved in athletics at the college level.
  2. MightyMO

    College Roster Sizes, sorry some of you don't get to go with us~

    It's pretty widespread around us, and becoming more so. There's one team close to us that has carried 30+ for quite a while but that used to be the exception. Now it seems to be the norm. When DD took visits she always asked about roster size and she had coaches tell her that the...
  3. MightyMO

    Chelsea Wilkinson

    DD has thrown just about every version of the CU but settled on the knuckle. She actually learned it from a woman who played international softball after college (this woman actually threw both a two and three knuckle change). And she had an instructor who was a D1 pitcher that used it as her...
  4. MightyMO

    To those NO DAYS OFF coaches/ people

    DD had had both of these. Different teams. She did the essay with no complaint. He was just trying to judge the girls actual level of interest in softball and they were 12U at the time. When it came to the hitting lessons, we politely told the assistant coach (he was scheduling them and was...
  5. MightyMO

    Sparkler review $$$

    DD played for an org that went to CO every year as one of their bigger tournaments. The last year she went was first year 18u. One of the days we were there that year we played next to a field that had a short porch in left field that backed up to a street. I think it was 170' or so. I was...
  6. MightyMO

    D3 pitching speed

    As others have said, it will depend on your location as to what you'll see. DD is a freshman at an NAIA school and throws mid-50s and (as of right now) it looks like she will see a decent amount of circle time this spring. I watched quite a few of her school's games last year (in person and...
  7. MightyMO

    Is it necessary to post this score?

    Putting players on base for "situational" work likely explains the 12 more runs than hits. Or at least some of it.
  8. MightyMO

    Is it necessary to post this score?

    DD plays for an NAIA team that isn't close to many big D1 schools so they play a mix of JUCO and D2 or smaller schools in the fall. At one location they kept score on the scoreboard. At another they had the scoreboard on but only kept track of balls, strikes, outs, and what inning it was. At...
  9. MightyMO

    NAIA scholarship question

    I've found it is getting more and more common at the NAIA level. One of the better NAIA programs in our area has carried 30+ for quite some time. They have 3 tiers of players. Varsity, JV (called varsity reserve now), and a few players that aren't technically either. DD plays at an NAIA...
  10. MightyMO

    2023 Ghost Double Barrel vs Ghost Unlimited

    Definitely have her try a one piece out before buying one. A lot of players either love them or hate them. Both of my kids (DD and DS) swing one piece bats and would prefer not to go back to two piece. DD has had ghosts since they first came out and she has always said they don't feel end...
  11. MightyMO

    Rule on Correcting Count (NFHS)

    From an umpire perspective, would it just be a meeting of the two reviewing the at bat and discovering they were wrong that would make them change it? Also, what if a runner was on base and had stolen as base or even home? Would that runner be sent back based on the pitch they stole on if it...
  12. MightyMO

    Rule on Correcting Count (NFHS)

    How would either book prove the other wrong? Away would say, "She had three strikes", and home book would say, "She has two strikes". If you are going to use a book as a reference for umpires, then wouldn't one have to be official?
  13. MightyMO

    Rule on Correcting Count (NFHS)

    Now that DD is in college I take in some of the local high school games as an observer and something happened at one last week that made me want to get clarification here. During a rather long at bat (and after the batter had fouled off three or four pitches in a row) the away team's...
  14. MightyMO

    Rawlings Gold Glove Awards - College Softball

    This is awesome. It would be great if they gave them the chest protectors with the gold Rawlings patch like they do the pros.
  15. MightyMO

    Why we need some kind of pitch/inning count in softball!

    This is definitely an issue that isn't talked about enough. And another problem that we propagate by constantly telling pitchers that they have to work like this to be the best. Maybe that's true, but their is a point where it does more harm than good. When DD was 9 or 10 we used to play a...

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
42,830
Messages
679,481
Members
21,445
Latest member
Bmac81802
Top