Search results

Welcome to Discuss Fastpitch

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

Register Log in
  1. W

    Too many tournaments

    My daughter is a senior, headed off to college in the fall. She's not playing college ball, and has been a pretty average B pitcher on a pretty bad B team for years -- they play 18U now. She's loved her coaches and her teammates (for the most part) and she likes playing the games. Last season...
  2. W

    Looking for a 2022 travel tourney

    As I've stated before, we've got a fair-to-middlin' 18U team for the 2022 spring/summer season. We're looking for a fun travel tourney for the girls, and I thought I'd ask here if anyone had ideas. We're thinking maybe something in Las Vegas or the Orlando/Space Coast area. It doesn't need to be...
  3. W

    No numbers?

    Played a podunk tourney this weekend. Our original tourney was cancelled because of an umpire "strike" and finding stuff this late in the season was tough. We would have just called it, but it's our last weekend playing for the season. Anyway, it was a two-hour drive and everyone had hotel and...
  4. W

    Guest playing protocols

    I'm spinning this off the Hissy Quits thread, because I think it brings up an interesting set of questions about guest playing. I've got two sets of questions, i guess. The first is as a player/parent, what are your expectations when it comes to guest playing? Do you think if you are invited...
  5. W

    Bad team, last season, travel ideas

    As I've lamented on this board many times, DD plays for a bad B team. She's the best player on it, but it's still a bad team. But as parents and I lamented yet another 0-for-tourney today, we tried to think of a way to make next year more fun. They'll be going to 18U, and so far have said they...
  6. W

    Happy Fourth, everyone!!

    We can have differing political opinions, we can have differing ideas of where the country is headed and what it has been. We can have differing ideas as to what means what and who means who when it comes to America. We have had our share of crimes and bad actions, and our share of celebrations...
  7. W

    How do you handle another parent trashing your DD?

    Our 16U B team has two pitchers. They are statiscally even -- same number of runs given up, same number of walks, one has more strikouts, the otehr more ground outs. Run and defensive support for one of them is twice what it is for the other, so that pitcher has two more wins on the year. A...
  8. W

    Can college players or high school pitchers pitch for money?

    I'n trying to get DD some live hitting experience. She's a pitcher and she's really the only one her team has, so she doesn't get any swings at practice and only a dozen or so at bats in a weekend. Can I pay pitchers who play at college or in high school to pitch to her? I don't want to mess up...
  9. W

    Rebuilding/creating a culture

    I'll get to the point. My DD's 16UB team stinks. Nice girls, but they are not good. DD's pitching okay -- so is the other pitcher -- but we're averaging 4 errors a game and aside from DD and two others, no one can hit -- team BA is .266 and OBP is only .320. We aren't even taking walks. We're...
  10. W

    Best place to video from?

    We're going to start videoing our games, because right now we suck (16B, batting .215 as a team, 45 errors in 11 games) and we're looking for anything we can do to help the girls improve. We thought by taping the games, then having a team review session with all of them, the girls could better...
  11. W

    Long foul balls -- to catch or let it drop?

    I was watching my beloved Gators last night playing at UCF. Tie game, top of the sixth, bases loaded, one out. Long fly ball hit to foul territory in left. The OF made the catch, allowing the third-base runner to score and go ahead. Was that the right play? DD and I had the discussion after...
  12. W

    Has anyone use WINreality?

    My son got an Occulus 2 for Christmas, and I was wondering if anyone had experience with using virtual reality batting training. Their facebook ads look good, and they seem to be used by a lot of colleges. It's not too pricey ($24/month) and maybe it could help. Anyone have experience with it...
  13. W

    Max number of plays in a 1-run inning

    I'm helping DD with a story, and we're trying to figure out the max number of plays that could go into an inning that ends with 1 run given up and bases loaded. I'm figuring 7 -- four base runners, two outs and a batter at the plate. Does that seem right to everyone? She'd like to get two more...
  14. W

    Quick question for teams that have been more successful than ours

    When you get to the championships in a decent-sized tournament, are most final games seven innings or do they still have time limits? This would be 18U-B, mid-level travel tourney in someplace like Wyoming or Colorado.
  15. W

    Wild pitch versus passed ball

    Is there a concensus about this? Obviously anything uncatchable -- over the head, wide on either side, pitch hits the bull -- are wild pitches. But what about the pitch that hits the plate, or the ground at the catcher's mitt? What's the assumption about a pitch outside of the strike zone that's...
  16. W

    Dealing with gay/bi players

    Hi. I'm starting to feel a bit like a drama queen on this board, but this is a subject that's recently come up on my daughter's club team and I wondered how other people dealt with it. I'm going to preface this by saying I don't care about someone's orientation. And also that my DD is not gay or...
  17. W

    Coach or GM?

    In reading the boards, and in a few years of being around the game, it seems like a lot of coaches are more interested in being General Managers of their teams than coaches. They actively recruit the best players available, and often sort of expect them to come onto the new team already...
  18. W

    Helping a heartbroken daughter

    This is going to be kind of long, because it's all kind of raw. So I hope you'll bear with me. My DD is a rising junior. She's played since she was 8, she's played comp ball the last two seasons. All of that was targeted to playing for the high school team, though she's loved her comp (and to...
  19. W

    Batbusters/Prodigy?

    We're hearing rumors around Colorado that Batbusters has sold to Prodigy, but I can't see anything on the inter webs about it. I know they are both SoCal based, so I wondered if it was true, and if it was true if it was national. Anyone heard anything?
  20. W

    Pitch count for a day?

    Does anyone have recommendations for a maximum pitch count for 16U? My DD threw 178 pitches today in three games. and I don't know if that's overtaxing her or not. She's never been overly accurate, but she's not walking many. Because of that and our rather lax defense, she just ends up...

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 405 (members: 4, guests: 401)

Forum statistics

Threads
42,862
Messages
680,274
Members
21,519
Latest member
Robertsonwhitney45

Share this page

Top