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  1. S Spiff

    NAIA ruling on Transgender athletes

    I appreciate this thread being allowed to continue. It is complicated, and I am interested to hear how people can think it is fair to allow trans women to compete against cisgender women. I have a hard time seeing it, myself. One reason it is complicated is that people transition at different...
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    Stepping up to a -11

    My two cents, fwiw, is to go ahead and get a -10. When my kid was 10, we had a -12 or -13. We had the same concerns. We fretted about whether she could get around, and worried about -12 or -11. But every time she moved to a "heavier" bat she was fine and a better hitter than before. It really...
  3. S Spiff

    Kankakee NSA nightmare

    That's what makes the bathrooms such a shock. It's a nice, zillion dollar facility. From the splash pad to the ac in the bathrooms. And the fixtures are prison toilets.
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    What % Travel ball players don't play high school ball?

    I'm not sure of the exact percentage, but it is related to the number of travel ball players who do not get the playing time or position they believe that they are entitled to on the high school team. Once that happens, it normally becomes clear to the player and her family that the high...
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    NAIA scholarship question

    From the NAIA page: "Each sport has an overall limit on the amount of financial aid it can award to students who will compete in varsity contests in that sport. For example, the overall limit in baseball is 12 full grant equivalencies (total value of cost of attendance including tuition, room...
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    NAIA scholarship question

    Also, note that NAIA scholarships count a little differently than NCAA. If your DD has a strong academic record, 50 to even 100% of her athletic money may not count against the schools 10 total scholarships. So they may have higher interest in an academically excellent student.
  7. S Spiff

    Viral video consequences

    Is it a rule that the catcher has to or is entitled to go behind the batter to throw to third? Or, is it a rule that the batter is not allowed to step out of the box if there is a play at third? I have never thought it was so cut and dried.
  8. S Spiff

    instagram as a recruiting tool

    I agree with using every avenue available, and that includes social media. The kids only get one shot right? However, it seems to me that most of the recruiting oriented social media I see only go to show that all of the kids practice almost all the time, they all hit dingers when they bat...
  9. S Spiff

    Interference? Internet umpires whats your call?

    If this is legal baserunning, everyone else is teaching it wrong. She's clearly intentionally making contact with the catcher's glove hand. She established a path to the plate outside the baseline but then reaches inside the baseline chest high to interfere particularly with the catcher's...
  10. S Spiff

    Delaying play to run clock time off

    On initial review, your response felt awfully condescending and pedantic so we will see how it goes. As for whether we are talking about the same topic, the OP referenced shoe tying and a team meeting that ran 5 of the last 6 minutes left in the game off the clock. That is what I addressed and...
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    Delaying play to run clock time off

    Stalling isn't a style of play or a particular play that is part of competition. Stalling is avoiding playing the game. All the talk in softball about "managing the clock" is a bit ridiculous. These coaches aren't managing anything, they are just finding ways to not play softball. Compare it...
  12. S Spiff

    Delaying play to run clock time off

    I side with those who believe delaying tactics are bad sportsmanship, but there is a fundamental hole in the rules that fastpitch associations or any local org implementing a time limit should address. It makes no sense for a timed game to have no effective clock management rules to prevent...
  13. S Spiff

    We should be playing softball!

    Every time we get a weekend off, I'm looking forward to it during the week. I can't wait. I have a thousand things around the house I want to get done, and I'm thinking about things I used to do before softball. Also every time we get a weekend off, I'm wishing we were playing ball before the...
  14. S Spiff

    Catcher's removing her helmet- driving me crazy!

    Just a catcher's dad, but I generally agree that a catcher shouldn't remove a mask after every time the ball is struck. There have been plenty of times that I was glad DD was wearing a helmet. That includes one collision at the plate that resulted in her helmet hitting the backstop on the fly...
  15. S Spiff

    Good catching or bad umpiring

    I'm sure he's a terrific catcher, but I don't see anything in those three pitches that justifies the missed calls. That is an extremely tough at bat to take. I also question whether expanding his zone to make contact with those those pitches is going to be a winning strategy for a hitter in...
  16. S Spiff

    View-Thru Fence Mount for Cameras

    I love my View-Thru Mount (and my Lynkspyder), but I can't think of a better place for it to point than Lynkspyder. As far as I can tell, View-Thru doesn't exist anymore. No one works harder to help us video softball games than Josh Greer.
  17. S Spiff

    Let's see your camera gear setups!

    Pretty sure the thread just got hijacked by the Ryobi battery powered 3D Printed blue tooth stereo bucket,
  18. S Spiff

    Let's see your camera gear setups!

    I'll share my favorite combination of gear. Lets politely call it classic since I've been using it in one combination or another since 2013 (10u to 18u). GoPro Hero 3+ Black, View-Thru mount, battery eliminator, Polsen GPMK-22 xy mic with not one but two foam wind guards. It does not stream...
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    PITCHERS who look like they dont care in the circle

    And if they struggle to perform, their attitude may reflect that. But I don't think they do worse than their best day because of their appearance in the circle. So it doesn't make sense to me to get to focused on their appearance.
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    PITCHERS who look like they dont care in the circle

    It's easy to make way too much of the effect "appearance" and "attitude" have on performance. People look at it like "once the stoic pitcher cracks, the advantage goes to the other team," but the stoic pitcher only broke because the other team was already getting to her. When we were younger...

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