Carolina Cardinals Memorial Day Diamond Classic

If any of the tbr softball forum members will be at this tournament, I will be the fat gray haired guy in the anderson tent, please stop in, introduce yourselves and pose for some pictures so we can put some faces to some names.

cheeze

 

what a tournament

I figure i'd post a little feedback on this tournament as i wait for my computer expert (daughter) to get up and help me figure out how to post some beautiful pictures of great ball players in this event.

what a complex, excellent fields, plenty of parking and warm up area, great job on the layout.

11 hours sat and 11 hours sunday watching some great ball games and i thought i might give my opinion about this, my first nc asa tournament.

sitting in my tent, i could watch two games at once. every game i watched went the full seven innings, my understanding is that only a couple went less than seven.

the umpiring was consistent in every aspect, same strike zone from ump to ump, team to team and game to game. i actuallly saw an incident where the home plate ump stopped the clock and then went over to a bench to explain a call. havent seen that ever!

HEY, THEY ACTUALLY STOPPED THE GAMES AT ABOUT NOON ON SUNDAY AND HAD A CHURCH SERVICE FOR THOSE WHO WANTED TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!

No trophies or metals, instead, equipment that you could actually use (bats, bat bags and gloves, shirts) were given out. I have a garage full of trophies and such, in the day, could have used the bat bags and bats.

It went so smooth, no arguments, no yelling (cheering yes), didnt hear any of the "umps are horrible" stuff, no unhappy faces at all.

five game minimun, ninety minute game time, think that's right, definately your money's worth in this one.

more later, along with some pictures of some great players, teams and some of our tbr members and families.

had a great time and might show up at the mighty casey this weekend to see ole paul.

 

ran into charlie dobbins (peace college). sat with him almost all saturday talking softball. great guy and has a great assistant (OC). Charlie has some great ideas for training equipment and amazed a lot of players with some of his gadgets. hope he brings them to the market, as they work to solve the most common problems a batter can have. hope your talk with my dd will bring her around to college softball, you really impressed her with you knowledge and i believe you left a lasting impression on this young lady, her coaching knowledge just moved up the scale about 30 points with your help. thanks charlie.

 

sammie, it was a pleasure to meet you and your family, gonna post the pictures of your two kids, an awesome pitcher/catcher combination from same family, great stuff. you're right, college coaches in attendance and college girls coaching former teams, not just cardinals teams, but nc dominators and one other i cant remember had asst coaches currently in college, love of the game goes deep for some of our girls.