16s FATT DADDY's ....what's going on!!

[CPYC]

Team California 99 made the trip to So Cal for the April's Finest Tournament this past weekend. We went 4-2 and were the only team in the tournament to have two wins in pool play and not make Gold Bracket. TC beat some good So Cal teams and AZ Firecrackers. our girls played hard and represented NorCal well. TC made it to the semis of the Silver Bracket where we lost to Bracket Champs San Diego Bat Busters RR Gold had a tough close loss on Sunday and NorCal Bandits lost in International Tie Breaker in the Silver Bracket. All in all, most Nor Cal teams held their own in So Cal against some impressive So Cal teams. Congrats ladies from all NorCal teams who played in So Cal.

[onlooker]

9-13-2. 9 wins from 5 teams in 24 games in so cal. (that's 5 wins for the other 4 teams) TC represented well, and appears will each time, kudos. I think that's safe to say. RR will have better success I would think to in the future, but, we as a whole got our arses handed to us actually down there. getting home late sunday night had to make it a worthwhile trip for TC, but not the other 4 of us. gross actually. Until we figure out that we probably should stack 2-3 teams instead of spreading out talent amongst 5 or 7teams, we will stick with winning 3/8 of the time. good luck to all in May....it's bound to get better.

[GameTime23]

CPYC.....sorry I didn't notice your good weekend down in So Cal.....4-2 way to represent Team Cali 99..

I'm not in the loop on 99's right now with HS playing.... and just trying to give this thread a little life....Best of luck this season!!!

[GameTime23]

C-Daddy thanks for the 4th post...check out rankings to answer your questions...


Not Me- you catch some..... you lose some, but u do see the kinda of BIG FISH swimming in that tracy pond...heehhehhahha

Handful of other top teams still having some player movement and the season hasn't even started...No one fish makes or breaks any of these very good teams....Plus there always a back up plan if things go sideways....

This should be a very good year for the top Nor Cal teams playing down south and PGF...1 month away...Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!!

[99NorCal]

9-13-2. 9 wins from 5 teams in 24 games in so cal. (that's 5 wins for the other 4 teams) TC represented well, and appears will each time, kudos. I think that's safe to say. RR will have better success I would think to in the future, but, we as a whole got our arses handed to us actually down there. getting home late sunday night had to make it a worthwhile trip for TC, but not the other 4 of us. gross actually. Until we figure out that we probably should stack 2-3 teams instead of spreading out talent amongst 5 or 7teams, we will stick with winning 3/8 of the time. good luck to all in May....it's bound to get better.

Would be interesting to see a team like that come together just for a tourney to see how they stack up. But there are too many problems with coaches and parents that would ever allow that to happen.

Need to look at the CA thread now. Maybe they're looking at getting their teams together to see if they can beat a team from Southern AZ that came to their tournament and won it all.

[Tyler Durden]

9-13-2. 9 wins from 5 teams in 24 games in so cal. (that's 5 wins for the other 4 teams) TC represented well, and appears will each time, kudos. I think that's safe to say. RR will have better success I would think to in the future, but, we as a whole got our arses handed to us actually down there. getting home late sunday night had to make it a worthwhile trip for TC, but not the other 4 of us. gross actually. Until we figure out that we probably should stack 2-3 teams instead of spreading out talent amongst 5 or 7teams, we will stick with winning 3/8 of the time. good luck to all in May....it's bound to get better.

Would be interesting to see a team like that come together just for a tourney to see how they stack up. But there are too many problems with coaches and parents that would ever allow that to happen.Need to look at the CA thread now. Maybe they're looking at getting their teams together to see if they can beat a team from Southern AZ that came to their tournament and won it all.

Interesting thread on this. OnLooker makes an excellent observation, and I remember having a similar situation back when my kid was in 12u/14u. In our little area in Seattle back in 2006 or so, we had a sort of 'perfect storm' of talented kids all arrive on the fastpitch scene at the same time and same age group. In that group of kids, we had two pitchers who are now both D1 pitchers at very big programs, the SS was the best that I have ever seen at that level, and we had legit slappers, speed, an aggressive center fielder with speed, and power hitters at the corners. Us parents had MANY discussions of putting them all together on one team so that we could legitimately compete with the So Cal teams. Then, the plan was going to be that we no longer played locally ("no good competition" we claimed), and we would travel south to good tournaments. It never happened. We managed to get some together on one team, and some played for another. We all placed blame on various reasons why we couldn't get it together, but the reality was that the parents and coaches were to blame (me included). Those kids at that level would have been very tough to beat, but we parents couldn't make it happen. Ego and selfishness was probably the main reason. And ultimately, we all wrestled with the issue of whether it was 'the right thing to do' to put all our kids on a super-team and to effectively abandon the rest of our communities kids who might have benefitted from playing on a team with our kids.
I guess the moral of my story is, in hindsight, I wish I hadn't been a jerk and gotten involved in the super-team discussion. Our super-team discussions upset a lot of the local parents who's kids we weren't interested in. That was wrong, and I wish we hadn't done it. So my advice to any of you who are considering it, Don't do it. The reality is, if your kid has the goods and the passion, she will be on a super team when she gets to the 18u circuit anyway. Just IMHO.

[catchersdaddy]

[Tyler Durden]

[99NorCal]

:mrgreen:

Much respect with that edit. Our area has some standouts already and some who will be later and even more who will benefit from being their teammates.

[blue1956]

9-13-2. 9 wins from 5 teams in 24 games in so cal. (that's 5 wins for the other 4 teams) TC represented well, and appears will each time, kudos. I think that's safe to say. RR will have better success I would think to in the future, but, we as a whole got our arses handed to us actually down there. getting home late sunday night had to make it a worthwhile trip for TC, but not the other 4 of us. gross actually. Until we figure out that we probably should stack 2-3 teams instead of spreading out talent amongst 5 or 7teams, we will stick with winning 3/8 of the time. good luck to all in May....it's bound to get better.

Would be interesting to see a team like that come together just for a tourney to see how they stack up. But there are too many problems with coaches and parents that would ever allow that to happen.

Need to look at the CA thread now. Maybe they're looking at getting their teams together to see if they can beat a team from Southern AZ that came to their tournament and won it all.

bush league, 98 team winning a tournament of 99 teams! lmao...looks like everyone needs to go back to the drawing board suncats 98 were knocked out by two so cal 99 teams in NM pgf qualifier .... maybe nor cal and AZ can put a team together!!!just saying !!