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baseballnutz
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theBaseballBunch
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 Posted - 06/04/2010 : 22:22:42
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Any good games today?
TC site still has not posted game results from 5 & 7.
Looks like Longhorns are rolling along. |
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touchemall
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Posted - 06/05/2010 : 00:00:49
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| Yankees took one on the chin from Shaw Park today. Way to go Shaw. Biggest game may have been just getting the umpires there. Umpires were late or lost getting to the park so the TD and others had to umpire until they got there. As always, Tony stepped up so that the games kept going. Thank you for all you do. |
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youthbaseball
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Posted - 06/05/2010 : 00:38:52
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Originally posted by theBaseballBunch
Any good games today?
TC site still has not posted game results from 5 & 7.
Looks like Longhorns are rolling along.
Longhorns won both today. They played great defense... |
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PumknHead
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Posted - 06/05/2010 : 18:33:41
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| Longhorns look Awesome. Should take this one easily. |
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baseballnutz
427 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2010 : 18:22:42
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Originally posted by PumknHead
Longhorns look Awesome. Should take this one easily.
I never understand why someone would make such a comment, it's 9U Baseball!
Longhorns go down in the semi's 12-10 to Wills Park.
This goes back to the point I made in Feb., these coach pitch teams will adjust and be more competitive as the year moves forward. OP has shown it, Shaw park had a great tournament and gave the Yankees a run and now Wills Park has a big win today. |
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BravesFan
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Posted - 06/06/2010 : 21:30:29
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| Longhorns failed in the semi's to Wills Park, WP was impressive. |
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4pcbaseball
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Posted - 06/06/2010 : 22:20:15
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Originally posted by baseballnutz
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Originally posted by PumknHead
Longhorns look Awesome. Should take this one easily.
I never understand why someone would make such a comment, it's 9U Baseball!
Longhorns go down in the semi's 12-10 to Wills Park.
This goes back to the point I made in Feb., these coach pitch teams will adjust and be more competitive as the year moves forward. OP has shown it, Shaw park had a great tournament and gave the Yankees a run and now Wills Park has a big win today.
Agree....ANYBODY can be beat on any given day. |
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baseballready
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Posted - 06/06/2010 : 22:37:56
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Longhorns...not so easily.
ECB Yankees squeaked by in the semis and finals for state championship. Boys played well but a few calls by the men in blue sure helped.
Congratulations to Wills Park nearly winning it all, Shaw Park for semis (& beating #1 seed OP) and Mill Creek for nearly beating 'Horns in quarters. Seems like the coach pitch teams hung with the "Elite" from ECB pretty well. ECB Empire may need to reconsolidate in the fall.
3 of Final 4 teams from Pool B = ECB Yanks, Wills Park, Shaw Park.
Great baseball this weekend! Super tournament director, great facilities, umpires...not so much. |
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TAZ980002
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Posted - 06/06/2010 : 23:23:11
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| How about those MC Hawks taking the Longhorns to the 6th inning? Good job boys !! |
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Leebegbaseball
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Posted - 06/06/2010 : 23:54:55
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You have to look at a teams overall record and
performances. On any given day a team can loose
to any other team. That was proven when the navigators
beat the Yankees. Every team will have up days
and down days. Wills park caught the longhorns
on a really down day. Yes the coach pitch teams
are getting better but so are the other teams.
As good as the longhorns are they are only 9
and will have bad days, but boy their good days outway
the bad. They happen to be the only 9u team
around playing and winning in 10u open tournaments. |
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theBaseballBunch
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 07:33:26
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| Heard umpires were a mixed bag. Several great games, several bad, plenty of just plain weird rulings. One team was warned that players in dugout should not wear hats backwards as "rally caps" in final at bat because it was unsportsmanlike and taunting of other team. Another team had player called out on head first slide--just because it was a head first slide. Some umpires were receiving instruction (how to call the game) from their certifying body DURING games. Tournament Director had his hands full with complaints. |
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baseballready
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 09:01:17
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So Wills Park only won because 'Horns had a down day? And what, they were within 1 run of Yankees because they had a down day too? 'Horns are a great team. They lost. No need to soothe bruised egos at the expense of victorious team. Great that 'Horns won a 10U tournament but that has no bearing on this weekend where they were not in top 2.
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Originally posted by Leebegbaseball
You have to look at a teams overall record and
performances. On any given day a team can loose
to any other team. That was proven when the navigators
beat the Yankees. Every team will have up days
and down days. Wills park caught the longhorns
on a really down day. Yes the coach pitch teams
are getting better but so are the other teams.
As good as the longhorns are they are only 9
and will have bad days, but boy their good days outway
the bad. They happen to be the only 9u team
around playing and winning in 10u open tournaments.
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gohornets
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 10:14:33
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| I've been saying all along that the northern teams are strong. That's why teams from the south don't want to come up here. Never meant to sound insulting to teams who have consistently faired well, but rather it is a lot harder to get through pool plays with complete pitching staffs intact. As for the closing of the gap between last year's coach & kid pitch teams...not yet. Every time one of last year's coach pitch teams get something new under their belt, it seems as through one of last year's kid pitch teams have as well. I applaud the efforts by these teams in what was possibly the strongest field of the year, but until those teams show that level of play CONSISTENTLY I will disagree that anybody has 'caught' up to the top tier programs. |
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baseballnutz
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 10:35:32
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Originally posted by gohornets
I've been saying all along that the northern teams are strong. That's why teams from the south don't want to come up here. Never meant to sound insulting to teams who have consistently faired well, but rather it is a lot harder to get through pool plays with complete pitching staffs intact. As for the closing of the gap between last year's coach & kid pitch teams...not yet. Every time one of last year's coach pitch teams get something new under their belt, it seems as through one of last year's kid pitch teams have as well. I applaud the efforts by these teams in what was possibly the strongest field of the year, but until those teams show that level of play CONSISTENTLY I will disagree that anybody has 'caught' up to the top tier programs.
Closing the gap...big yes. In Feb these teams couldn't hit the ball out of the infield or hit it at all plus they had no idea who their pitchers would be. Now that has changed I'm seeing many of the top pitchers getting hit hard and some solid pitching from some teams that we didn't see earlier in the year. 'caught up' maybe not but with out doubt closing the gap. |
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touchemall
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 11:07:41
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| We can't all agree on who is the best but can we all agree on the fact that the umpires were once again horrible at this venue? Tony does a great job and I can understand an umpire missing a call here and there but once again, these umpires did not know the rules, showed up late for the first day of games, and made bad call after bad call in the field. I hope Tony considers finding a better umpire organization for next year's events out of this park. |
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Calif_Baseball
292 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2010 : 13:39:16
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| Great Job EC Yankees on your TC State Title. |
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crazy4baseball
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 17:16:24
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I have been reading comments on nwga baseball for a long time now, I finally felt propelled to give my opinion. I was present the entire weekend for the tc tournament. The one thing I agree on is that this was the worst umpiring for baseball I have seen this year. There were bad calls and then there were game changing bad calls.
Tony did the best job he could do with what he had. |
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youthbaseball
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 18:08:42
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Originally posted by baseballready
So Wills Park only won because 'Horns had a down day? And what, they were within 1 run of Yankees because they had a down day too? 'Horns are a great team. They lost. No need to soothe bruised egos at the expense of victorious team. Great that 'Horns won a 10U tournament but that has no bearing on this weekend where they were not in top 2.
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Originally posted by Leebegbaseball
You have to look at a teams overall record and
performances. On any given day a team can loose
to any other team. That was proven when the navigators
beat the Yankees. Every team will have up days
and down days. Wills park caught the longhorns
on a really down day. Yes the coach pitch teams
are getting better but so are the other teams.
As good as the longhorns are they are only 9
and will have bad days, but boy their good days outway
the bad. They happen to be the only 9u team
around playing and winning in 10u open tournaments.
have you seen a negative quote from a longhorn representative. No. Congrats to WP for the win against the Longhorns and congrats to the Yankees for the tournament victory.
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youthbaseball
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 18:14:40
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Originally posted by baseballready
Longhorns...not so easily.
ECB Yankees squeaked by in the semis and finals for state championship. Boys played well but a few calls by the men in blue sure helped.
Congratulations to Wills Park nearly winning it all, Shaw Park for semis (& beating #1 seed OP) and Mill Creek for nearly beating 'Horns in quarters. Seems like the coach pitch teams hung with the "Elite" from ECB pretty well. ECB Empire may need to reconsolidate in the fall.
3 of Final 4 teams from Pool B = ECB Yanks, Wills Park, Shaw Park.
Great baseball this weekend! Super tournament director, great facilities, umpires...not so much.
Wow..lets tell ECB how to run their program. Are you a coach? If so, with what team. Seems like ECB is doing just fine.....Give credit where credit is do. The Yankees did win the tournament...Please dont blame it on blue while we are teaching our kids to respect them and our opponents. Who called them "ELITE"? |
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crazy4baseball
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 20:39:02
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It seems to me that no one can say that the ECB teams played poorly at times this weekend without offending someone. This is 9u baseball and yes ECB Yankees did win TC State Championship! Congratulations!
However, there were teams that are being overshawdowed by the ECB comments from this weekend that deserve their recognition.
MC Hawks had a great tournament, great pitching & hitting.
Wills Park played outstanding, they had some big wins.
Shaw Park had great pitching, and hitting this tournament but were the recipients of several bad calls this weekend.
No one is disrespecting the umpires, everyone is teaching their kids to respect the umps. When a 9 year old knows it is a bad call along with everyone else, it is a bad call. |
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ecball
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Posted - 06/07/2010 : 21:42:43
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I coach the 10U East Cobb Braves and follow some of the 9U games if I'm at the park. We did all of this last year so we have some experience. You are correct that the teams that played kid pitch at 8U had a big advantage starting the 9U season and as the season goes on that advantage shrinks. That goes without saying! It's not that one team is improving and another is not, it's just the experience advantage disappears and the games get tighter. Most of these kids had never played kid pitch before so they are obviously much more confident at this point. Teams really close the gap at 10U.
I think the Longhorns are a very good team but it's hard always being the hunted....trust me on this. It's much easier for them to play 10U where they are hunting and pressure is on the 10U team not to lose to a 9U team. It's much more difficult for them to play in a 9U tournament that they are supposed to win. |
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xyzbaseball
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Posted - 06/08/2010 : 12:36:32
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| I was not at the champ game, however the Wills Park team hit the ball better than most in the semi's to beat the Longhorns. Good day , bad day or whatever the Wills Park guys did something that has not happened much this year , they took it to the Longhorns. Congrats to Wills Park for their victory and to the Yankees for the tourney win. Always remember anybody can beat anybody on any given day. That is why you play the game. |
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ExtraInnings
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Posted - 06/08/2010 : 17:12:05
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Originally posted by youthbaseball
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Originally posted by baseballready
Longhorns...not so easily.
ECB Yankees squeaked by in the semis and finals for state championship. Boys played well but a few calls by the men in blue sure helped.
Congratulations to Wills Park nearly winning it all, Shaw Park for semis (& beating #1 seed OP) and Mill Creek for nearly beating 'Horns in quarters. Seems like the coach pitch teams hung with the "Elite" from ECB pretty well. ECB Empire may need to reconsolidate in the fall.
3 of Final 4 teams from Pool B = ECB Yanks, Wills Park, Shaw Park.
Great baseball this weekend! Super tournament director, great facilities, umpires...not so much.
Wow..lets tell ECB how to run their program. Are you a coach? If so, with what team. Seems like ECB is doing just fine.....Give credit where credit is do. The Yankees did win the tournament...Please dont blame it on blue while we are teaching our kids to respect them and our opponents. Who called them "ELITE"?
The ECB Yankees played a very good game in the semi’s against Shaw Park battling back and not giving up after Shaw jumped out in front with 7 runs in the 1st and after having already been beaten by Shaw in their first pool game. They beat WP twice, once in pool play and in the finals, so the Yanks deserve congrats on winning the tournament. And like it or not we all have to live with the results of umpire’s calls because that is just the way the game is played and umps will never be perfect. That said, I know the Shaw park kids must be very disappointed for what they feel was taken away from them in the semi's by a home plate blue that seemed to be playing offensive tackle against their catcher on a wild pitch/passed ball in the last inning that helped the tying run score and the field blue that pulled a Jim Joyce earlier in the same inning with a safe call at first that left not just Shaw fans in attendance bewildered but some coaches and fans from a couple of the remaining teams buzzing. I believe Tony acknowledged that in a game with State title implications it was bad for the field blue to refuse to ask for help from his partner after Shaw requested it. Whether field blue made the right or wrong call it just showed a lack of respect for the game and for the kids not to ask for help in such a tight and well played game by both teams and where it turned out the call had direct implications on the outcome. I don’t think any team there was being disrespectful of the umps, understandable and growing frustration perhaps as the strange calls kept piling up, but I didn’t see anything that crossed the line. Simply speaking up for one's kids without cursing, kicking dirt and the like doesn’t seem out of line. Lastly, as noted in earlier posts, Tony was a class act all weekend long and worked his butt off for all the teams that came.
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mwk2814
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Posted - 06/08/2010 : 20:21:27
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| Congrats to the Yankees. Heard WP accidentally pitched one of their kids over the innings limit in the Championship and should have lost by forfeit. Yankees declined and wanted to finish the game and take chances of winning on the field. Great sportsmanship. |
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youthbaseball
91 Posts |
Posted - 06/21/2010 : 21:38:19
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Originally posted by crazy4baseball
It seems to me that no one can say that the ECB teams played poorly at times this weekend without offending someone. This is 9u baseball and yes ECB Yankees did win TC State Championship! Congratulations!
However, there were teams that are being overshawdowed by the ECB comments from this weekend that deserve their recognition.
MC Hawks had a great tournament, great pitching & hitting.
Wills Park played outstanding, they had some big wins.
Shaw Park had great pitching, and hitting this tournament but were the recipients of several bad calls this weekend.
No one is disrespecting the umpires, everyone is teaching their kids to respect the umps. When a 9 year old knows it is a bad call along with everyone else, it is a bad call.
The longhorns are playing in the AAU tournament in Fla....the kids had an awesome opening first night...Good luck horns.....Coach |
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