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Mistake!
by Dave
Friday, May 09, 2008
I have to admit that I thoroughly enjoy watching sports of all types as much as possible. And this internet thing really comes in handy when events take place and I cannot possibly attend them. We have watched several softball games online via college sponsored programs in which for a reasonable price, it is possible to subscribe to their "webcasts." This year I was really looking forward to the Big East softball championship tournament. When I discovered that the Big East has their own webcasts, I quickly ponied up the 6 bucks and planned my schedule to see several of the games. Unfortunately, things did not work out very well for me.
First of all the sign-up process was miserable. I entered in my credit card and other information several times before the thing finally decided not to crap out. I guess they can't afford to have big time web developers over at the B-East. Their software and other technology is weak, to say the least.
But finally I was able to get through and get my card posted. Then, in order to see the webcast, I basically had to close down all the idiotic windows which had popped up in the process of placing my order, exit out of Big Beast dot org and then try to sign on again. When I did, I was greeted with a message which told me I had not purchased any products. I figured maybe my credit card did not go through yet so I walked away from the puter and had some lunch. later I signed back in again and was greeted similary. This time I decided to click on anything and everything I could find until they let me see my blasted games, one of which was already underway.
After much trial and tribulation, I finally got the game on. It played on Windows media player which has, shall we say, limited functionality. But the picture wasn't too bad and I was able to see some of the game, though, might I add, i couldn't tell which team was which, there was nothing on the screen indicating inning, outs, score, let alone ball and strike count. It wasn't quite like watching TV. Then, after just a few minutes, there was a substantial rain delay. I decided I could live with that because there's nobody to blame. This sort of thing happens. And I wasn't hot to watch this particular game anyway. It was the next three, the semi-finals and the championship which really interested me.
An hour or so later, I decided to check and see if the game had begun. Apparently it hadn't but it was difficult to tell. I had been booted off the server for inactivity, I guess. I had to close windows again and re-navigate the site. Later the games came back on and I watched several. It wasn't the worst experience I've ever had watching sports via the web but certainly not even close to being comparable to the best. The picture quality is what it is. The streaming sometimes ran into great difficulty and I felt like I was either watching a series of stills or a slow-motion reproduction. My internet connection is good and my machine is top quality. Whatever was to blame, it was on their end, not mine.
It is a minor point but the fellow the Big East had doing this game knew nothing about softball. He kept referrinf to things in baseball terms. And when there was a play on which there was clear offensive interference, he was left speechless because he had no idea why the umps had ruled the way they did. basically I was left lsitening to some baseball fan talk about a sport he knew nothing about. So I turned the sound off.
I got to see the games in the first round of the tournament I wanted to see and was lookign forward to the semis and final game today and tomorrow, weather permitting. Unfortunately, the "Big East softball tournament package" does not include access to anything but the first round! the second and third rounds have been sold off to CBS' CSTV. So I got shut out there.
I admit that very possibly it should have been clear to me that all the games were not included. But it wasn't clear to either me or my wife. And we're extremely experienced at this. I wonder about the poor guy who paid over his money to watch his daughter or niece play. Was it obvious to him that this package only included the first day's play? I'll let you know when I speak to him!
I wrote to the Big East and complained. My wife said I should just deny the charge on my credit card. I could have done that and it would have cost them a lot. I wouldn;'t have paid one red cent but they would have to foot the bill for the charge-back. I decided it would be better to complain and see what their response was. That was mistake number two. The guy who wrote me back said basically "sorry but you're the one who made the foolish mistake."
For now, I'm done with the Big East. I went to a Big East School. I have been to literally hundreds of Big East sporting events. I'll never pay over another red cent to the Big East to watch their webcasts online. And I strongly suggest you refrain from doing so too.
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No Fear
by Dave
Friday, May 09, 2008
I've experienced "the fear." That was quite a while ago. I'm over that now. I've seen the fear in others' eyes. There doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it other than to explain what I mean by "the fear," how I overcame it, and what I think others ought to do when they experience it or see it in others' eyes.
"The fear" refers to fear of the unknown - that which we can only imagine, of course in a travel soiftball setting. More specifically, the kind of fear I am referring to is fear of going to a "nationals" tournament whether that be ISA, USSSA, FAST, PONY, NSA, or some other fastpitch sanctioning body.
Many bodies which sanction some sort of nationals require a team to earn their bid via a national qualifying tournament (NQ). Several provide a means by which a team hosting a NQ can acquire a bid by virtue of their hosting the NQ. The value of obtaining a hosting bid is, a team can plan to attend well in advance and set their sites on preparing for attendance from the outset of the season. Obviously, the value of earning a bid is the team knows they belong there. They are going because they won a NQ or because the team which beat them in the NQ final already owned a bid. But trust me when I tell you that even though a team may have earned their way, they are going to have a logistical nightmare trying to get everyone and everything organized enough to get there in good shape to compete well.
I said that I've experienced "the fear." A few years back, we both hosted a NQ and earned a bid to go there. We had joined the team knowing that they were going to nationals. That was condition of being on that team. Yet, as the season wore on, we suffered numerous injuries and shortly before we were supposed to leave, we were down to 9 players at a tournament in which there was a bid at stake.
Most of the teams were headed to the same nationals we were going to. Several had earned bids and a few were going on host bids. Generally, the best teams from our state were playing this tournament. And we got smoked. We were mercied three straight preliminary games in 4 innings, mostly because every able body played every game and there was no way to rest a pitcher or catcher - we were down to one and a half pitchers and just one catcher. The day of elimination games, we held our own despite being a bottom seed, playing against a much higher one. We lost that elimination game but it boiled down to a late run scored on an error. I felt then and I feel now that we should have won that game.
After that tournament, I think 75% of our team felt we just couldn't go to nationals. We weren't healthy and although two of the three injured kids would likely be able to play some, we still weren't entirely whole yet. We grumbled along the sidelines "how can this team go to nationals?" I think I forgot to mention that 75% of the team had never been to nationals before. Finally we mustered the courage to go before the team's manager and plead our case against going. He listened long and hard. Then he thanked us for our opinions and informed us that "we are still going."
That manager was right. The team competed well, going 3-4 and losing yet another game we could easily have won. Had we won the game which eliminated us, I believe we would have won the next one and then had a shot at going into the final round. We were that close. There was no reason to fear anything.
I also said that I've seen "the fear" in others' eyes. Obviously I saw it in the eyes of parents and players from the team I just discussed. But I've seen it in a number of other people's eyes as well.
Last year, one team was trying to get my daughter to join them for this year. I asked the head coach what their plans were. he mentioned several tournaments, some of which were NQs and many involved lesser competition. I asked him directly about the prospect of going to nationals, any nationals. He replied, "well, we're playing several qualifiers, so there's a shot we'd go. Sure, I'd be interested in going to nationals ... provided we won our bid. We wouldn't want to go unless we won our bid."
So I told him flat out, "there is no way that you are going to win a bid in late June and get it together enough to book a hotel, make travel arrangements, and get all these people to nationals. The only way you are going to go is to make plans right out of the box and then make sure you go. The way you have your schedule set up right now, you won't be able to anyways because you have something planned for the week they are being held."
The team had arranged to play one of those tournaments near some big theme park where there are lots of touristy things to do. The coach told me, "it's a really, really good tournament and the families all like going there because we stay a few days extra and make a vacation out of it."
OK, that's fine but it is not nationals. You don't get to go to some place and make a softball experience out of a vacation. It is just not the same thing. But in the course of my discussions with this fellow, that's when I saw "the fear." He's not the sort of fellow to admit any kind of fear. But I could see "the fear" in his eyes nonetheless.
There's another fellow I've met in softball circles who has "the fear." He's been running a team for several years now. They're pretty good - better than many teams we've played at nationals. His team sticks to tournaments in which they have a good chance to win. They're afraid to play anything in which the team might get mercied by a monstrous opponent. They are also fond of telling everyone what their won-loss record for the current year is. We see this team mostly when we play tune-up "friendlies." They usually win most of their games, except those played against better teams. The team crumbles psychologically when they play the type of team which routinely plans to go to nationals.
I've also seen the fear in a few people's eyes more recently. I was involved with a team on which the manager was plain, flat out afraid to go to nationals. We had a host bid with that team. And by every way I have to judge a team, they would do quite well. But the manager is afraid of going. So when the date to register that the team would be taking the host bid came and passed, he said, "the only way we go to nationals is if we win a bid." That is the common "out" used when someone is afraid of going. That's the same kind of language, spoken in the same manner, as the fellow I mentioned above. It is a way to avoid facing the prospect of going to nationals while not admitting that you are afraid.
I told you that I overcame the fear by just going to nationals and watching our team do not too badly. That's partly true and partly false. The very next year after first attending a nationals tournament, i managed an team of young, inexperienced girls for their age category. I told the team before we even organized that we were going to go. I went so far as to tell the parents that at some point in this season, we were going to find ourselves at a low point and somebody was going to speak those words. Somebody was going to say "how can we bring this team to nationals." Well, we got to that low point and I was surprised at who was doing the talking. It was me!
We reached the low point with the team during a "summer league" game against the team which tried to get my daughter to join them the following year. They beat us via the run rule after, I think, 5 innings. I was so disappointed in the degree to which we had not improved, perhaps gotten worse, to that point. Our trip to nationals was about a month or so away and the girls quite frankly couldn't play a lick. I was stressed out to say the least but I was shocked to hear myself suggesting that we wouldn't go. I was snapped to my senses when one of the parents reminded me of what I had said a few months earlier and the team generally made me keep my word. We went, we did pretty well, and I'll never experience "the fear" firsthand again.
So what do I suggest you do when you encounter the fear? There are only a couple options. The best one is to keep talking. Tell your experiences and let others know that there is nothing to fear. Its fine to go to nationals or another big tournament with lots of teams and get your butts handed to you. There's nothing wrong with getting smoked as a result of shooting to high. More learning is done at the hands of defeat than can ever be as a aresult of winning.
When you join a team, I do suggest you ask the coaches if the team is going to nationals, whichever one you'd like to attend. Make sure of the team's plans for getting there - host bid or earned one. Find out when the team plans to play tournaments and how many shots at earning the bid they will take. Try to learn whether this "plan" has a real chance of coming to fruition. Many of these "plans" to earn a bid are merely smoke and mirror intended to fool those who don't know better. If the team actually does earn its bid and then they don't go because they couldn't get a hotel, so and so can't get off from work, or because somebody or somebodies cannot afford to take an expensive vacation, you can bet dollars to donuts that there never was a plan to go whether we won the bid or not. You were told that the team would go to nationals if they won as a way of enticing you to join the team. But most likely, the team not only won't go this year, they never will. Most likely, they are afraid to go and compete against God-only-knows what sort of team might be there!
There are many reasons to go to a nationals tournament. The kids will invariably enjoy staying in a hotel or motel. There's the team bonding that goes on in the tiny swimming pool. There's the two or three other teams also staying at your hotel. Pin trading is a blast for the kids and you really need something in your house which you can brow beat your kids about once they have left your nest. "You come over and collect the things you left behind like those pins from nationals or it is all going into the garbage next week."
More than anything else, there is a certain festivity which goes along with playing a national tournament. There's bound to be some softball vendors there. And you can go watch a myriad of other teams playing. You'll undoubtedly get a chance to watch some team which murdelized you this year get murdelized by some other team from East Jabib. You may get to beat a few teams, also from east Jabib in the process. You'll eat breath and drink softball for a week while you stay in some rotten place and eat at fastfood places or, if you are lucky an Applebees or two. The whole thing will be an incredible bonding experience. And neither the kids nor you should ever be intimidated by the prospect of playing a team from some state you;ve never even visited again.
So, have no fear yourself and when you encounter folks who have "the fear," try to help them get over it.Labels: mental toughness, youth tournament teams
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More Random Thoughts
by Dave
Friday, May 09, 2008
I have some more random thoughts which occurred over the past week while watching tournament, high school and college games and thought I'd share them with you.
1) Here's one to stuff into the back of your playbook and bring out in special, very rare circumstances. A few weeks ago, someone wrote an e-mail to me about an intentional walk he saw attempted in a junior college game. It went awry when the batter reached out and drove the pitch into right for a two rbi single. I was watching an intentional walk in the process of being issued in a Div. I college conference tournament game when that e-mail flashed into my mind.
There were runners on second and third with one out and a tied ball game in, I think, the fifth inning. The defense elected to walk the hitter who had already hit two basehits in her previous at-bats. The walk was executed flawlessly and the bases were loaded setting up a force all around. But what occured to me is that the pitcher A) threw the ball just about 12 - 18 inches off the plate and B) was throwing ordinary warm-up fastballs about 5 mph or more slower than her normal pitching speed. If the batter had inched up in the box, toward the plate, I believe she could have had no trouble putting the ball into play. Under the circumstances, a soft grounder to second would have brought home the go ahead run!
Why not teach your sluggers to attempt this? If I were going to try, I would wait until the pitcher threw one or two balls and got a little too comfortable. Then, on ball two or three, I would attempt a hack. What is the risk? Just keep in mind that your baserunners should be in on the joke.
2) I've grown weary of listening to the catcalls from the sidelines on ball and strike calls. I am now working very hard, when I am a spectator, to never even mumble anything unless I am absolutely sure the call was a bad one ... and I don't have a pony in the race. I would like us all to back off the sort of comments which ordinarily should only be made by the catcher or a coach like "where was it" or "was that one low?"
There are a couple of reasons I wish we could find a way to stop doing this from the sidelines. First of all, it has gotten to the point where a coach can barely breath hard on a bad call without being warned by the plate ump. Last year I was calling pitches and thought I had the batter set up pretty well. The pitch came in exactly where I wanted it, just outside the strike zone - not a hittable pitch. I watched the batter's hands and as she flinched, I exhaled. When she held up and didn't take the bait, I moaned. The plate ump turned to me and sternly said, "coach, it was clearly outside."
I was too stunned to tell her that I was not complaining about the call. I hadn't moaned because it was a ball. It was supposed to be a ball. I moaned because we almost got that batter on that "waste" pitch. But umps have become very defensive about their ball and strike calls because they are under a microscope on every pitch from both teams as well as fans who can often be allowed to sit very close to the plate. As an aside, if the fans do not stop getting into the umps' ears from these spots, sooner or later facilities are going to move the fans further and further away. That's not in your best interests. So bite or button your lips!
Another reason to not make comments about pitch calls from the peanut gallery is it usually has bad consequences for your team. People who complain about pitch calls often think they will embarrass the ump into "giving one back." Umps know this is what is in fans heads and hearts when they complain. On the odd occurrence when an ump makes a bad call and knows it was a bad call, he or she may indeed give a subsequent close call to your side. That's maybe in 5% of all cases. The rest of the time, 95%, the ump just gets irritated. That may or may not make him or her call the next close one the other way. It is not a high percentage bet for you and your team.
Lastly, umpires do talk to each other. The teams whose parents (and for that matter coaches and players) complain the most are easily identifiable. Its always the same teams. So when umpires "always call them tight" for your team, you maybe shouldn't wonder why.
3) I receive a lot of e-mail from parents and players who wonder if they have already missed the boat for becoming a pitcher. I've received such questions in a range including everyone from parents of 9 or 10 year olds to players as old as 15. They ask, "should I give pitching a try or is it too late?" My answer is always, "give it a try." My reasons for this are as varied as the age range of those asking the question.
I'm no expert of childhood development but from what I have read and heard, the age range of about 8-10 is the best time to start pitching. 9 seems to be the time when muscle memory development first starts really getting going for girls. 9 also seems to be the best time to begin learning anything like multiplication tables, dance, etc. Yet, there are plenty of girls out there who burn out of pitching by 14 when they started taking lessons at 8 or 9 years old. And there is no good reason to simply not do something because you feel you might be too old.
I suppose many folks feel that starting something relatively late will lead to fruitless effort. Still, we see octogenarians graduating from colleges across the fruited plain. We see some 40 year old one time high school dropouts going to medical or law school. If you do not try something because you believe you might be too old, what we have is an excuse not a reason.
I have observed and heard about many kids who got going late. Heck, I didn't really understand what pitching lessons were about until one of my kids was almost 11. A friend had suggested to me that all the decent pitchers in and around our area saw private coaches. I nodded but had no idea what he was talking about. Later, when I discovered what he meant, I suppose I could have decided it was too late for this. Now my kids have been pitching for years. The younger one seems to have a leg up on the older one. She's better when compared to the older one at the same age. But the older one is no slouch. And if she works hard, I have no doubt that she will continue to develop.
I know of one particular girl who didn't really get serious about pitching until she was 12. That's when she started goping for regular, weekly lessons. She's quite good today. If you listen to the top pitching stars (Team USA, NCAA), you will most likely hear several of them state that they never pitched before the age of 12. That may not be totally common but it certainly isn't unusual. Kids develop at different ages and interest in things rises and falls depending on the particular kid. You can't judge a kid's potential by making all the decisions about her life when she is 8-10!
I know of one girl who when she entered high school had apparently reached the zenith of her pitching career at 55 mph with just a few pitches and decent location. A prominent pitching coach had told the girl she had reached her full potential at 15. When she graduated, she was clocked at 67 by a college coach who offered her a full ride. She also had a killer rise ball, an excellent dropcurve, good change and numerous other pitches which were in the process of being developed. She reached her potential at 15? No, she hadn't even scratched the surface.
On the other hand, I can identify several pitchers who stepped into high school throwing near 60 with relative command over four pitches and left closer to 55 with command over none.
My purest advice is to give pitching a try whether you are 5 or 15. Are you late to dinner if you start at 15? Certainly. Chances are pretty good that you won't make it into the big time. But you will still enjoy learning a difficult skill and the experience will be invaluable.
If you start at 5, my guess is by 10, you won't be any or much more advanced than a kid who starts on her 9th birthday. The later you start, the harder you will have to work to get up to "speed." But that's true of any pursuit. Like I said, don't look for excuses. Just do it.
4) My final random thought involves injuries. I have seen more pitchers come down with injuries this year than ever before. The reasons for pitcher injuries usually involve A) improper mechanics, B) failure to adequately warm-up when playing in cold weather, or C) excessive practicing in the months just prior to and continuing with the season.
My best advice is proper mechanics are critical. Before anything else, work on mechanics. We had a little discussion here regarding open- and closed-hip styles of pitching several weeks ago. Since then I have done a little research on arm injuries in pitchers and everything I have seen seems to indicate that open hip pitching puts too much strain on the arm. I won't list out links or reference materials. I'm not an expert in bio-mechanics. I'm not telling anyone what they should or should not do with respect to the style of pitching. I'd rather you find your own resources in this regard.
A proper warm-up is imperative even if your mechanics are nearly perfect. You don't need me to tell you that windmill pitching is physically demanding. There are a lot of moving parts. The more warmed up you are, particularly in cold weather, the less likely you are to suffer an injury. I've yet to see the pitcher who can warm-up, stretch and warm some more in under 20 minutes. Many take much longer. It isn't about the coach or team's convenience. It is about not suffering an injury, potentially a career ending injury. Work out your own warm-up routine. Don't adjust it to suit anyone but yourself - your physical needs. And if your coach does not provide sufficient time for a good warm-up, have a long discussion with him or her about how you will not pitch without an adequate warming.
Lastly, there are several girls out there who do not pitch much in the fall and winter. When they get to about a month or two before the beginning of practice season, they work like demons. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about girls who pitch year round and then take one or two months off before beginning their annual cycle. I'm referring to those girls (you know who you are) who do not pitch much for about half the year and then get going in time to pitch by the beginning of the season.
Initially they don't throw very well. So, in order to get back to where they were last year, they throw every day and their sessions are long. This creates stress in their muscles and does not provide any time for the muscles to heal after intense exercise. That sets the stage for injuries.
As an additional point, there are girls who pitch year round who also can be at risk on injury. They also, pitch intensely and do not make time for sufficient rest to allow the body to heal. As the demands of game season begin to add to the overall burden, this also sets the stage for injuries.
Rather than pitching 365 days per year of for 180 straight days, a more sensible approach is necessary. Everyone's body is different. You, the pitcher, need to decide when you have overdoen things or need some period to rest before going on. Listen to what your body is telling you and tell those who take care of you when you feel new, inexplicable pains or old ones which may have indicated injury in the past.
Lastly, lest I be told I focus on pitching to the exclusion of everything else, these same injury concerns are true of every player on the field. They are true of baseball as well as softball. I had a conversation with the father of the CF of our high school's varsity baseball team. He didn't pick up a ball during the winter. Then during the pre-season and after games began, he was doing a lot of long distance throwing. He felt a twinge in his elbow. That twinge continued to progress until recently. Now he is the first baseman of our high school varsity baseball team. I also know of one very good softball catcher who suffered from a dead arm recently. I don't know what her out of season regimen is but I suspect it does not involve much throwing. It may not be easy to find a place to do some winter throwing but it is certainly not impossible.
Well, that about does it. I have many more random thoughts but I've about maxed out your attention span for today. Have a good weekend and may the weather be good enough to get a few games in.Labels: lessons, Offense, parenting, players, pre-season preparation
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