All Star Game ends in tie, 15-15
After almost 3 hours of game play, everyone finally decided
it was time to
stop. The clock was closing in at 12am, and fans were growing restless. It was the #1 Doofus
Shooters and the #4 Unknowns versus the #2 Quay's Muckdogs and the #3 Cyclones. The Cyclones and Muckdogs jumped out to a
huge lead after the first 3 innings of work. Chris Suriano hit a grandslam in the first inning of play. After
3 innings it was 12-3. The Unknowns and Shooters rallied back, as in the bottom of the 4th, they scored 7 more runs
to make it 13-10. After some key walks, the game was now 13-12, heading into the bottom of the 6th. The Unknowns
and Shooters rallied yet again and drove in the tying run. In the top of the 9th, Curt LeClair sent a sidearm Riser
from Chris Hess deep, for a 15-13 lead. Needing 2 more runs to keep the game alive, the Unknowns/Shooters were able to push
across 2 runs again to keep the game alive. That would be all of the scoring for the next 2 hours. Hopefully next years
game will turn out better, nobody likes it when an All Star game ends in a tie. It was a fitting end though, both teams matched
up well against each other. Can't wait for next year.
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Idea's for next years league (updated)
Since
the season is pretty much over, I have begun to compile a list of ideas for next year to improve gameplay and make it
more enjoyable. Between Ashley and I we came up with a lot of good stuff. Let me know what you think:
1)
Video footage of everygame. We have the software and equipment to do highlights of all the games, and store them on the website
for people to view. The highlights would include voiceovers and music, just like on television.
2) Moving
homeplate. Homeplate would be moved to where my pinic table is (to the left of the old homeplate area). This would make the
field almost twice the size, and therefore hopefully actually making it possible to hit a triple, instead of hitting
a single and advancing to third on 2 throwing errors like what normally happens.
3) Making the strikezone
a solid piece. This idea has already been used, and it seems as if people are in favor of it. The strike zone dimension
will be made a tiny bit larger next year, in an effort to get batting averages lowered and make games a little more realistic
score wise.
4) Team uniforms. Click to on the button for some examples I was thinking. I have found a place online that sells pretty cool uniforms for
about 12 bucks each. The uniforms include: team name on front of shirt, nickname and number on the back. I want to make
this mandatory though, to give the league more of a professional look to it. Also I found on the same site, a place for
custom made fitted hats. They are 10 bucks a hat, and they won't be mandatory, but would be cool if your team had
all the same hats.
5) Adding more teams. More teams = more games = more fun. If we get more teams,
we'll need more players. So please advertise for the league during the school year, so maybe we can get people for next
summer to play. I was hoping to double the amount of teams for next year, maybe 6 or 8 teams.
6) Scoreboard.
My dear friend Ben Lamb is actually constructing a scoreboard
now for next years league. Adding a scoreboard to the
field would add some coolness to it, and enhance the fun.
7) McCovey's Cove. Already an idea for
this year, it just never took shape. Next year I was thinking of adding a small kiddy pool out behind the RF homerun
fence, and then creating a sign that would display how many HR balls were hit into the pool.
8) Increase
the length of the basepaths. No longer would the pitchers mound be
practically ontop of second base. Longer basepaths also means getting those ridiculously
high batting averages down.
9) Flood lights. This would allow us to play at night. My friend Tim just
gave me a nice set of flood lights to use, this would be sweet to set up and play a game at night. Would make more people
available to play games.
10) Have games a set day and time each week. For example, have games every monday
and thursday at 5:00pm. Something like that, so you can schedule work around the wiffleball games, and not me scheduling the
games around your work. Makes everything much easier.
11) Building another field. Adding a second field
would make it more convienant for players to make the games, and make it less of a drive. The idea of making one in rotterdam
might work, as many of the players were from that area.
12) Adding a Draft Day. We want to have about
8 teams to our league. If 8 teams, we would need 8 team captains. So we would have the 4 expansion teams pick first from a
pool of players, then it would be Melissa's team, then Chris Surianos team, then Clintons team, then Chris Hess's team last
because they won the championship. This would add parity to the league, to make the teams even.
13) Moving
the pitchers mound back about 2-3 feet. The one thing we noticed from this year, was that there was a lot of strikeouts and
not a lot of balls hit into play. We want more action on the field. So by moving the strikezone back, will hopefully help
this problem.
14) Not having the teams Ace pitcher, pitch everysingle game. Maybe have it so if he pitches
one game, he cannot pitch the next game regardless of how many pitches he threw. This would prevent teams from just using
their Ace pitcher to pitch every game, and maybe make games closer.
15) Audio interviews with players
about the games, put onto the site. Clinton has the equipment to do this. So we can put on game interviews of players who
had great nights at the plate, or interview pitchers who threw 5 shut out innings. Stuff like that.
16)
Articles from other people. Clinton had suggested that himself and maybe some other people could post articles on the site
to make it more interactive and make it look more professional.
If you guys can think of anything else, let me
know. Leave comments in the comment section located on any of the team websites. Thanks.
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