Ray Vaughn wrote:Underdog/itsallgood.....I didn't feel the need to explain but here goes. I have one player with two broken wrists, one (my other ss) was sick....which I found out Friday night wasn't going to make it at all. This put me at 9 players. For the record....we beat the rattlers 7-0...no pickup players used. My 9th player had to leave during the Bomber game for a band concert. I picked up a player (that isn't the starting ss on her own team) to fill in at the last minute. We lost 2-0. Also......check your references.....the only reason I played her there was because my other ss was pitching....but you wouldn't know that becasue you have no idea what you are talking about. By the way...my ss that was pitching is one of the best 12u ss you will find...hands down. The girl that I picked up against Mark (because my 9th player got hurt in the game before)....doesn't play ss for her team either...she's a heck of a pitcher but I refused to let her pitch. Whichever one of you guys was defending Mark.....please ask him what you call two players that we have already established play on another team during the summer..... but are playing while high school ball is going on to stay sharp......even if they have a uniform....they are called "PICK UP PLAYERS". So why is he talking about pick up players. I wasn't whining......didn't care...let the girls play. Here it is......the rattlers didn't get railroaded...they had the most runs allowed....period. Good team.....didn't work out. Be careful who's character you defend....check my resume.....no problems with anyone. I can stand behind being a class act because it's the truth. Mark...are you trying to say we cheated......we played 3 or 4 innings with 8 players......you caught the slip up......it got handled.....the game continued. I know the rule....you know the rule.....the rules were followed. It is what it is......
Ray, I am not accusing anybody of cheating, nor have I said anything of the like. I like you and the intensity you bring to the game. I do question you picking up girls that have already been knocked out of the tournament. If the TD allows it, then nobody can challenge that part. I do question that if you had been playing anywhere else but for a Storm Elite ran tournament, would that TD have allowed it?? Probably, maybe not.
I do not think that is what caused us to lose. We caused us to lose. Errors, errors and more errors do not help a team win a close game. You have a very good team Ray as do quite a few of the 12U teams. I do not get to see too many 12U teams play as we do not normally get to play down in a 12U tournament labeled 14U. We got beat and I am not at all using anything as an excuse.
Your first post was not the nicest towards me and I forgive you for that. What I am talking about, about the class part is what your coaches were doing at the exchange of high fives at the end of the game and what you yelled "very loud" so that every girl on my team heard was "way to go girls, even with just eight of ya'll". I deem that as not very classy. Take your win and be happy but do not try and degrade my girls because of something their coach caught and would not allow to happen.
As for the two girls on my team that are playing for an 18U Gold team, that is why we decided to go USFA so that they can also play with us. Not pick ups, they are part of our USFA roster. I have never picked up a girl from another team that was playing in the same tournament we were playing in. One of my girls did pick up with the Terror during pool play because they only had eight players.
Mark
from 14U coaches/parents because you got your rear handed to you by a 12U team. For goodness sake, one of the games was with ONLY 8 players!! 
