Playing in the snow?

by **nsidethelines** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:27 am

Heavy snow tonight on the fields, ice on the roads tomorrow morning and a 60% chance of rain on Sunday. How many more clues do you need to cancel a tournament? Sure there is a light chance to see some good games, but weight the pros and cons folks. Nobody is using this as an excuse, just save the battle for another day. Its a crazy argument about the heat in the summer. The heat doesn't usually create deadly conditions on the roadways or cause harm to your $300 bats.

Stay home folks, hot chocolate and fire and maybe even some college football.

by **DonnieS** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:38 am

nsidethelines wrote:Heavy snow tonight on the fields, ice on the roads tomorrow morning and a 60% chance of rain on Sunday. How many more clues do you need to cancel a tournament? Sure there is a light chance to see some good games, but weight the pros and cons folks. Nobody is using this as an excuse, just save the battle for another day. Its a crazy argument about the heat in the summer. The heat doesn't usually create deadly conditions on the roadways or cause harm to your $300 bats.

Stay home folks, hot chocolate and fire and maybe even some college football.

Guys, about 5 years ago, we played a tournament like that in the New Braunfels area - low was 31, high was 37. Played the last game at about 8 pm, icing, nasty, dangerous, finally said 'thats enough' , it took a month for the kids to recover from that mess. Two RT bats were ruined that day - I swore 'never again'. Softball is too much fun to play and coach to do it in nasty weather. This is Texas, - stay home - wait for a nice weekend, there are plenty of them.

by **Rounding3rd** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:54 am

I know the TD worked very hard to pull this tournament off but I heard they were not going to refund any money that was sent in if you decided not to play due to unsafe driving conditions or because he changed the format to a 2 game guarantee. Please correct me if this is not the case because I heard it 2nd hand. If this the case, this guy is bush league and only cares about one thing....MONEY!!! Even if he gave back a token amount to each team it would show he some integrity.

by **3monkeys** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:54 am

It's not about the safety of folks, it's about the almighty dollar. Hopefully we'll have better weather next weekend.

by **Lunatic Fringe** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:14 pm

97 Dad wrote:You can warm those bats up all you want, but you also have to take into consideration that a lot colder ball will be coming at the bat as well. Trust me a batwarmer will help, but it wont make your bat crack proof on a weekend like this one.

I'm taking an trust aluminum just in case.

I once argued this point with one of our coaches (the need for a ballwarmer) in all seriousness for over 5 minutes one only to stop when I realized that all of the team moms were falling out of their chairs laughing at me. They have such dirty minds :oops:

by **honest bob** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:27 pm

I can only offer this advice. Do not eat the yellow snow!!!

THANK YOU
MR. BOB BILLINGSLY
PRODUCER "STEVE SEGAL LAWMAN"
ESPN 8 WEATHER MAN

by **THE MAD-DOG99** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:31 pm

Don't know about Texas, but someone listened..so to speak

They postponed the Tourney in Las Cruces till next week...

No refunds

by **pumba** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:53 pm

has anybody heard from TD today bout Katy, our coach hasn't received a email since last night. we have out of town players that need to know somthing pretty soon

by **3monkeys** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:53 pm

The Katy Christmas Classic is a collaboration between Really, FastpitchDirt.com, and the Katy Cruisers to purposely withhold information to increase web traffic for FastpitchDirt.com. I ask that Honest Bob open up an immediate investigation into this matter.

Actually, it is sad that it does seem like coaches are having to get their info from a website instead of the TD.

by **pumba** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:56 pm

3monkeys wrote:The Katy Christmas Classic is a collaboration between Really, FastpitchDirt.com, and the Katy Cruisers to purposely withhold information to increase web traffic for FastpitchDirt.com. I ask that Honest Bob open up an immediate investigation into this matter.

Actually, it is sad that it does seem like coaches are having to get their info from a website instead of the TD.