Tournament Crybabies

A 9 or 10 run deficit can evaporate very quickly especially if the team on top decides to save pitching innings of the starter

Funny things happen--- you are playing to win and you do what you have to do to win and be in the best shape pitching wise for the next game and the rest of the tournament

Instead of whining, they could have hit a couple hitters in the rib cage. Then you would have two things to whine about.

Believe it or not Steve Blackwood of GT got nailed in the rib-cage by a 96MPH FB over the weekend in a situation just like this but bounced back the very next day with determination and strong will and knocked the cover off the ball. peace, Shep

SHEP

It is all part of the game

TR

I got hit-by-pitch as college hitter 23 times in two seasons at USC-Aiken. Believe me, I know it's just part of the game Actually, I reacted like Blackwood, it just made me more determined to succeed and I usually punished opposition with my bat doing the talking. peace, Shep

Shep a good friend of mine played at USC-Aiken in the late 70's. We later coached together for several years in HS. Were you around then?

Coach May,

I played there, at USC-Aiken for Coach Randy Warrick and the Pacers from fall 1987 till spring of 1989 before being signed by Jim Thrift to a professional contract and placed in Carolina League as 27 year old rookie. Here is the link to USC-Aiken.
USC-Aiken Baseball


Click Media Guides on right-hand column of page, years will come up, you can just click most recent 2006 even though all media guides have basically the same info, and find Ray Shepherd listed in categories on pages 42-46. That's the Shepster, me. Who was your friend who coached there in 1970s?

Hope Jeff is still mashing ! peace, Shep

Shep's Corn for the Morn>Happy Memorial Day Song

Oh Susannah, oh don't you cry for me,
I was born close to Alabama with a
banjo on my knee

Oh Susannah, oh don't you cry for me ,
just give me a field and baseball,
that's all the Shepster needs !

Oh Susannah, oh don't you go away,
I'm only here to enlighten you,
so I beg you please just stay !

Oh Susannah, hope all your dreams come true,
don't you move to Louisiana now,
there's hurricanes in those seas

Oh Susannah, hope you hide your trees,
cause if GotWood4Sale finds them,
they'll only get retrieved

Oh Susannah, don't you know by now,
there's no crying in baseball,
So don't let me hear you meow

All you have to do is give the LIBERT UNIV example. Up 10-0 in the 2nd and lost the game 16-11 to UNC Asheville.

Agree with TR's original repsonse - tournament objective is to win this game as quickly as possible and worry about the next game, saving pitchers ion the process. Have done the same thing myself [I still have an old friend who played on an opposing softball team 20 years ago - when I dropped a bunt with a man on third to end the game at 10-0 their whole team howled - guy still gives me grief - my reply was "what if you hit Benny [our pitcher] with a liner drive in the next inning" - he was our only pitcher.

I'm onboard with this 1000%.

I'm starting a new thread on a related topic