This is our disscusion from last night about money:
A--We did some math and figured out we need a $20 buy in per player. Each player is given a 12pk of beer at the commencement of the tourney. This beer must be finished to enter the championship, if in fact you do make it that far... so don't worry Buko, you won't have to drink that much. Addtional beer will be given to players who in fact want to drink more. Each team will be given a trash can and ice where they will keep their team beers, thus you might drink 11, while someone else drinks 13, no big deal. This not only saves cost due to dropped/bitched beers, but also ensures a moderate amount of alcohol consumption, and keeping freeloaders away from game supplies.
B--Food will not be provided
C--Addtionally we talked about proping up an apple basket behind the batter. The pitcher's goal would be to get the ball in the basket. If the pitcher did pitch two balls which hit the inside of the basket and the batter didn't swing, it would be an out. If the pitcher missed the basket three times it would be a walk, or man on first as we like to call it.
There would no longer be bitching about bad pitches, or people watching thirty pitches before deciding to swing, and the basket would as a result provide shorter games.
We have disscussed the idea of the ball staying in the basket, which would control the pitch speed, but that might prove more difficult then we imagine. The height and position of the basket is yet to be determined.
d--About the grounder/double/any fielder rule. I must disagree with weber that his fifth rule is the most important. It is bad. If the ball hits after the pitcher and rolls into the double it would be good because we need more hitting which increases game speed, the any fielder rule serioulsy handicaps the batter in the fact that grounders are not always guarnteed singles as they usually are when Ivy is pitching.
The biggest issue with the rule is that it can be hard to tell where the ball initially strikes the ground, and is even harder to tell from the field. If we do away with it I will be happy, and there will be one less thing to complain about from the Westside which is always beneficial.
E--Daven is not playing for Westside. We made him an offical Red Devil with a cirlcejerk 8 days ago. Skinny is also playing for my team, but hasn't been made offical yet.
F--We need to play this sunday, to iron out rules of pitching basket and double grounder thingy.
What do you guys think???
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The Westside needs a team
The way I see it is Westside still has Sparkles, Joe, Blair, Couey, Mark, and possibly Caffery. A very good team if you ask me. Keep working at it Joe and lets make this tournament a competitive one.
West Side will be back in full effect (except maybe for Mark ... but he might be there, too).
mark said he was playing when i talked to him on tuesday night
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i like the idea behind the basket but it is unrealistic because of the variety of pitching styles. why not just use a tee
if rule A would have exsited last year i know who would have one.
Well most beer team per team obviously went to the red devils. I did have colin and his brother, and dan drank like 48. But I don't understand jimmy, your team didn't make it to the finals anyway. And Ivy told me two nights ago when he was drunk, that at the last tourney he had only had one beer the whole game and kept refilling the can with hotdog grease and water, that's why we made the rule. About the basket, how bout if the pitcher gets one to stay in, its an out, but needs to hit it three times for an out otherwise?
I like the basket idea a lot. I say there's no reward if the ball stays in, it just needs to hit the basket. It doesn't even have to be a basket. It can be any object. As long as it dictates a "strike zone", then it accomplishes the task.
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