BackstabberSS
February 14th, 2007, 02:33 PM
Sorry Larks, but I have to post this on your site....Mark needs to know how it is.
Thank you for being ignorant enough to open this can of worms. You have now allowed me to open my big a$$ mouth now that you have called out OUR TEAM....
Now that I KNOW that you read message boards regularly I hope this message finds you well. I posted a month or so ago criticizing the NKY Committee for "Giving a Recommendation" of C to the Ohio Committee. I posted that the vote in Ohio turned out to be unanimously D. You called us and directed me to write a post recanting my previous statement. Well, now that you have called everyone out, its my job to return the favor. What kind of person in a position of authority plays on softball message boards? Get a life! You have much bigger worries in this area than what I post on a message board. Here is an idea to start with. Make Ohio's by laws the same as the rest of the freaking country. No other state requires a bump up for finishing 3rd at Nationals!!! And for the record IT WAS UNANIMOUS since everyone replied to all on the emails!
Secondly, here is a quote from you lovely article: "So while border crossings to avoid a higher classification may be distasteful to both the organizations and teams, no one has ever been successful in submitting any enforceable legislation to stop it. And softball administrators have accepted border jumping as a fact of life."
You want to talk about DISTASTEFUL? How about writing these ignorant article in the first place?! You don't call out specific people and teams in a published article as a person in your position! That is for others to do in editorials. Distasteful? Wow. Pot meet kettle.
Here is another DISTASTEFUL quote from you Mr. Linneman: "Dawg Pack/Greene’s was another matter. This team would ultimately win three events that would warrant an automatic national move-up in 2007, more than any other team in Greater Cincinnati. They were undisputedly the worst classified team in the area. "
Again, you are not some hack reporter writing an editorial. You are in a position of autority. This type of comment shows a complete lack of class and common sense!
SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE BEST!!! That is a fact! Dawg Pack by no means DOMINATED last year. They won two big tournies and neither of them were blowouts. Somebody has to win!!! Every time a team wins, they are sandbagging by your standards. How did Dawg Pack do at World? Yes, they were the best finishing Cincinnati team, but somebody has to be. They had an above average finish. NOTHING that warrants calling them MISCLASSIFIED.
"Looking at a worst case scenario, wouldn’t it have been better that one or two teams might have had to suffer an injustice, than to have permitted one team to sandbag for an entire season at the expense of an entire program? And when you consider that the Mike Foulks and Backstabbers teams could have appealed their classification after only two tournaments and possibly been reclassified, the need for the two classification boards to work together becomes even more evident. After all, it is obviously better for one or two teams to suffer than dozens locally, and hundreds - if not thousands - nationally.
Did you really just use the word sandbag? How clever of you. And the answer to your question is NO! Teams should not have to start the year and pay money which is obviously all the you care about anyway, to play up with no shot to win.
What you need to do is take your focus off message boards, and put it towards uniforming the rules to match the rest of the country. This article was in very bad judgement on your part sir and you will definately be looked at in a bad light for a long time due to it. I know that every time I step on the field this year, I will be thinking of you (not to mention the a$$clown that tried to have our poker tourney broken up) and unfortunately the team in the other dugout will be paying for it. They can thank you.
Fellas, my silence has been broken and you can all thank this stupid article for it. We are gonna smoke it this year. And my big mouth will be leading us the whole way. WE WILL WIN an NIT and we will light the scoreboard up like a fvcking Christmas tree. Nobody is immune either. Sorry in advance
Thank you for being ignorant enough to open this can of worms. You have now allowed me to open my big a$$ mouth now that you have called out OUR TEAM....
Now that I KNOW that you read message boards regularly I hope this message finds you well. I posted a month or so ago criticizing the NKY Committee for "Giving a Recommendation" of C to the Ohio Committee. I posted that the vote in Ohio turned out to be unanimously D. You called us and directed me to write a post recanting my previous statement. Well, now that you have called everyone out, its my job to return the favor. What kind of person in a position of authority plays on softball message boards? Get a life! You have much bigger worries in this area than what I post on a message board. Here is an idea to start with. Make Ohio's by laws the same as the rest of the freaking country. No other state requires a bump up for finishing 3rd at Nationals!!! And for the record IT WAS UNANIMOUS since everyone replied to all on the emails!
Secondly, here is a quote from you lovely article: "So while border crossings to avoid a higher classification may be distasteful to both the organizations and teams, no one has ever been successful in submitting any enforceable legislation to stop it. And softball administrators have accepted border jumping as a fact of life."
You want to talk about DISTASTEFUL? How about writing these ignorant article in the first place?! You don't call out specific people and teams in a published article as a person in your position! That is for others to do in editorials. Distasteful? Wow. Pot meet kettle.
Here is another DISTASTEFUL quote from you Mr. Linneman: "Dawg Pack/Greene’s was another matter. This team would ultimately win three events that would warrant an automatic national move-up in 2007, more than any other team in Greater Cincinnati. They were undisputedly the worst classified team in the area. "
Again, you are not some hack reporter writing an editorial. You are in a position of autority. This type of comment shows a complete lack of class and common sense!
SOMEBODY HAS TO BE THE BEST!!! That is a fact! Dawg Pack by no means DOMINATED last year. They won two big tournies and neither of them were blowouts. Somebody has to win!!! Every time a team wins, they are sandbagging by your standards. How did Dawg Pack do at World? Yes, they were the best finishing Cincinnati team, but somebody has to be. They had an above average finish. NOTHING that warrants calling them MISCLASSIFIED.
"Looking at a worst case scenario, wouldn’t it have been better that one or two teams might have had to suffer an injustice, than to have permitted one team to sandbag for an entire season at the expense of an entire program? And when you consider that the Mike Foulks and Backstabbers teams could have appealed their classification after only two tournaments and possibly been reclassified, the need for the two classification boards to work together becomes even more evident. After all, it is obviously better for one or two teams to suffer than dozens locally, and hundreds - if not thousands - nationally.
Did you really just use the word sandbag? How clever of you. And the answer to your question is NO! Teams should not have to start the year and pay money which is obviously all the you care about anyway, to play up with no shot to win.
What you need to do is take your focus off message boards, and put it towards uniforming the rules to match the rest of the country. This article was in very bad judgement on your part sir and you will definately be looked at in a bad light for a long time due to it. I know that every time I step on the field this year, I will be thinking of you (not to mention the a$$clown that tried to have our poker tourney broken up) and unfortunately the team in the other dugout will be paying for it. They can thank you.
Fellas, my silence has been broken and you can all thank this stupid article for it. We are gonna smoke it this year. And my big mouth will be leading us the whole way. WE WILL WIN an NIT and we will light the scoreboard up like a fvcking Christmas tree. Nobody is immune either. Sorry in advance