Triple Crummy Big League Nightmare

[Scoop n K]

Sounds like your asking for Quality not Quantity..

Scope bottom line is did you have fun watching dd play? Was it better than going to work? Was it better than staying home and doing a honey do list?

How about signing up for a Huntington Beach Surf City tourney and playing in Beaumont or San Clemente

It is to bad thinking your playing at BLD and ending up at the sand lot

No Doubt...Better than all of the above. My main concern is that, even though watching DD play is always fun, the team was sold a bill of goods AND placed in harms way by the terrible, terrible conditions of the Godzilla fields at that high school. Thank goodness ankles ONLY got turned and nothing snapped. TCS advertises it as one thing, and delivers another. Being in the ad biz, I know just how illegal/unethical this act is.

Bottom line is you are right. I'll take watching DD play any day over that dang list. Just wish TCS would treat it's customers ( all our DD's teams) better.

[TCS So Cal]

I 100% understand the quality over quanity concept and I think TCS usually does a pretty good job with trying to balance the 2 and will continue to try and get better.

While every team played 2 or more games at the BLD location, I understand that having to use the Cat City HS location decreased the field quality and we will never use those fields again.
Due to last min time restrictions that were placed on us we had to use the HS fields for the 14U event. This is also why the time limit would have been placed on the Champ. game. We went from having the field until 8pm to having to be off by 630 due to mens slowpitch. With some of the games going long on Sunday, our hands became tied and tried to offer the best options we could for the girls. When all is said and done it is a direct reflection on me and TCS and I take full responsibility.

I do want to say that TCS is a buisness and we do make money but that is not what it is all about. We do care about the girls and their families. We did not add the HS just to make money or put time limits on games to get out of there early. We would have paid for another 10hrs of lights if that was needed to allow PS and Softball Connection play there Champ game. In addition, we do not charge a gate fee, or search bags...that is a BLD policy. That is why we like to work with host teams. That way the girls and teams get to use it as a fundraiser instead of the city or private parks making the money.

In Summary for the future: No Cat City HS / I will try to schedule the event on weekend other than Coachella Festival / I will focus on Quality over quantity.

Thank you and feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Travis Cotsenmoyer

[bart16761]

My daughter took a header at the high school field though it was hillarious to watch and she ended up being safe it was a 1/4 final game and there was an empty field at the time on the real fields. We didn't have to contend with the ususal drunks as the 14u did we had to deal with the more flambouyant drunks from the white boys party (look it up). Anyway we all got hijacked inside the park and became experts at sneaking stuff in, the good news is that there was some good softball played and my kid did not break her ankle just her pride

[ontheblack]

Travis, good of you to man up here, but TCS put a lot of girls at risk by being non nonchalant about the field conditions. With the schedule out on Tuesday, there was plenty of time to make the Cat HS fields playable and safe. The issue for me was not about being inside BLD drinking a cold one, having 15 minutes between games to get from the HS and thru TSA to the next game on a field inside BLD, or even hotel rates jacked up 200%. It was praying that the girls wouldn't be visiting the ER.

My disappointment is only with TCS's lack of concern for the welfare of the girls.

[sm_ball]

As a parent of a player on the Firecracker team this weekend I would like to thank the PS96 Coaches, players & parents & the Firecrackers coaching staff for their classy move in agreeing to end the tournament as Co-Champs. I'm glad our pitcher did not have to take the field for another game. She was great all day & her parents should be proud

I agree the HS fields were bad, luckily for us we only played two games their.
There was some good softball played all weekend, I enjoyed watching by daughter & her team batttle all weekend! I'm glad nobody at the gate checked my leaky chair bag with ice & water bottles . Sunday I watched the Laker game, softball on three fields & drank a Cold Beer! Not a bad weekend of softball in my opinion!

[anonlooker]

To my understanding the PS Coach didn't want to play due to limited time. If they really wanted to play the championship game, why didn't they move the championship to the high school fields. Sounds like the PS coach/team had enough softball for the day.

Sounds to me like you don't know what your talking about (typical of some of the HB posters). Even though a 45 min. game was not very appealing, the main reason for the decision not to play was that the PS coach saw that the only pitcher the Firecrackers had was barely able to hold her arm up, was in actual pain, and he was not going to risk injuring a 13 yr. old for a chance of being the sole champion. Co-champions at that point was fine.

So the PS coach decided this on behalf of the FC's pitcher? Was the FC coach going to send her out there in the condition you describe?

And why would a team like the FC's have only one pitcher to go on Sunday?

Doesn't sound like any FC team / coach I've ever met.

[CharlieHough]

I am sure BOTH the PS96 and Lakewood FC coaches controlled the outcome. Both of these teams coaching staffs are very tenured and strong. Everyone knows this.

The reality is that the FC team was billed as "Softball Connection" as their 95's are playing high school and they have some pick up players, including a Corona Angel 95 pitcher, from a great family who wants to keep her sharp. understood!

Home for a late dinner, no complaints about school today, it is all good.

Perhaps triple crown could let everyone know that the final 2 would be declared co-champions at the begining of play on Sunday. They had to know.