View Full Version : I am really sick of rain....
Hakko936
04-29-09, 04:43 PM
:wallbang:
springer
04-29-09, 10:24 PM
$3800 bucks will buy your team a 170' x 170' tarp. I know that Walnut Hills bought one last week and it saved them a rain out yesterday and today.
TheBenchwarmer
04-29-09, 10:45 PM
Vandalias new tarp covers the entire infield only have one game to make up this season and that is Lebanon. Game could have been played at Butler that night but the coach refused to give up the home game. If it's not pouring at gametime, games at Butler DO NOT get rained out!!
I HAD to reply to this thread! I agree. Someone needs to do an anti-rain dance. :D
billyjake
04-30-09, 10:08 AM
So do you guys get upset every year at this time?
It's April in Cincinnati - it's gonna rain...
If it bothers you that much, raise some money and buy a tarp...
So do you guys get upset every year at this time?
It's April in Cincinnati - it's gonna rain...
If it bothers you that much, raise some money and buy a tarp...
No one was complaining about Cincinnati weather billyjake, we were just lamenting over the frustration of having so many rainouts.
A tarp would be a great buy, but not every school district has the funds for that luxury, expecially when schools and student-athletes already have their hands out asking every parent, neighbor, friend, and business for money just to run the baseball program.
:shrug:
Hakko936
04-30-09, 11:24 AM
So do you guys get upset every year at this time?
It's April in Cincinnati - it's gonna rain...
If it bothers you that much, raise some money and buy a tarp...
Yeah, it irritates me every year when you lose 3-4 games in a row because of rain even though I know to expect this.
A tarp would be great, but that does nothing for rain-outs at other schools or when it is pouring at game time.
ButlerAviator83
04-30-09, 12:45 PM
The rain is a bummer, and while the tarp cannot completely save every game it sure does make a huge difference. There have been a few evenings this season when Butler and whoever is playing at Fifth Third Field were the only games that got played in the area. Yesterday would have surely been a washout without the tarp. Unfortunately it is something that many programs simply do not have the funds for.
Yellow_Jacket06
04-30-09, 06:54 PM
The rain is a bummer, and while the tarp cannot completely save every game it sure does make a huge difference. There have been a few evenings this season when Butler and whoever is playing at Fifth Third Field were the only games that got played in the area. Yesterday would have surely been a washout without the tarp. Unfortunately it is something that many programs simply do not have the funds for.
Bingo!
Can't even get a levy passed up this way let alone afford a tarp.
ButlerAviator83
05-01-09, 08:05 AM
Bingo!
Can't even get a levy passed up this way let alone afford a tarp.
Sidney might not have a tarp, but man they sure do have a nice sports complex up there. The last time we played in Sidney it was at a park, so this was the first time I had been to the HS field. That whole complex was EXTREMELY nice.
:wallbang:
Yeah, it does rain in April, but I agree with you we've had more than normal. Some years it rains more and at the wrong times. So even though you expect rain, getting as much as we've had is frustrating for most normal people, who are associated with HS Baseball.
baseballin4Life
05-01-09, 02:31 PM
the rain is making me mad !
the underdog
05-01-09, 06:15 PM
The only thing about the tarp is you need someone to take it off every day to keep from your infield grass dieing.
FormerWildcat
05-01-09, 06:57 PM
Here's an interesting article from the local weekly suburban paper about the effect of the rainouts on scheduling...
http://www.thisweeknews.com/live/content/hilliard/stories/2009/04/29/0430hiwet_sp.html?sid=104
Wet weather forces backlog of league games
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:30 PM
By JEREMY STEWART
ThisWeek Staff Writer
The OCC realignment has made it difficult for area high school baseball and softball teams to schedule makeup games.
With the OCC going from six divisions of six teams to four divisions of eight, the league schedule in each sport has expanded from 10 to 14 games. In the past, teams scheduled OCC games for Monday and Wednesday with Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays available as non-league dates. Saturdays were -- and for the most part still are -- used for non-league doubleheaders. Sundays have been considered an off day.
Now, OCC games also are scheduled for Fridays, and that extra day of mandatory play has tightened the window to schedule makeup games. With the normal cancellations and postponements because of bad weather, the result this year has been a backlog of league games that teams are trying to squeeze in before May 11, the start of district tournament play.
"It's been very frustrating," Pickerington North baseball coach Tim Thomas said. "Not only do we have the three league games, when we have five days of rain where we can't play, it means we're not going to have a day off until the tournament. We have a league game every day."
Thomas said teams used to be able to avoid the scheduling headache by using Friday as a makeup date, giving the Panthers three shots at scheduling a makeup game for a Monday postponement or two shots for a Wednesday postponement without having to disrupt Saturday plans or plans for the next week.
Without that extra day, games have been postponed to later weeks.
Starting last Monday, North was scheduled to play five consecutive OCC-Ohio Division games before traveling Saturday to West Chester Lakota West for a doubleheader. After an off day Sunday, the Panthers will play four consecutive league games. As of last Monday they had May 8, a Friday, off, but Thomas is leaving that open in case there is one more postponement.
The Thomas Worthington baseball team was in a similar situation.
The only difference was the Cardinals have a non-league game scheduled May 7, which is being treated by coach Stephen Gussler as a final makeup date for a postponed league game.
More than one postponement would force both teams into making a decision between a canceling a Saturday doubleheader, if possible, or pushing the league game back to the week of the district tournament. In that situation the coaches would be faced with the decision of when to pitch his best pitcher.
"It's a problem because of our main goals, the first is to win our league," Gussler said.
"And then the next goal is the district championship. We might be playing league games during the tournament and I'm not sure what I would do (about the pitching) to be honest. If you get a good draw, you might have a weaker opponent and maybe you could save some guys."
Teams will find out who they play in the district tournament Sunday at the drawing meeting at Gahanna. But do they actually have to put themselves in the bind of having to play in a tournament game and an OCC game on consecutive days?
OCC commissioner Dave Cecutti said the OCC doesn't put a mandate on when the last games can be played, although the OHSAA calendar has the baseball and softball seasons ending June 13.
The City League plays its championship game the final week of May. Dublin Scioto softball coach Todd Bright said he could only remember one season out of 11 in which his team didn't play the maximum 27 regular-season games, often playing a week after being eliminated from the district tournament.
With eight-team OCC divisions locked in for another three years, Cecutti said the scheduling issue will be around for awhile, and it's something the executive committee is going to look at during its next meeting in June. Not only has the scheduling been tough for schools, but it's been difficult to find enough umpires to go around as teams try to cram in their league games before the postseason.
"(The realignment) affects the spring sports the most," Cecutti said. " There are a couple issues that I'm fighting right now. We have to level just getting some contingency plans. Right now I'm not sure what those are."
Cecutti did mention that an emphasis needed to be put on the priority of OCC games over non-league doubleheaders Saturdays. He also said he had spoken with some schools about the possibility of playing Sunday games.
ButlerAviator83
05-01-09, 08:34 PM
http://www.vandaliabutlerbaseball.com/09_GAME_MOVE.gif
Damn Rain!!!!
Yellow_Jacket06
05-01-09, 09:58 PM
Sidney vs Springboro has been canceled altogether. Also the Sidney/Beavercreek game has been canceled as well due to make-up games piling up at the end of the season.
Apparently the Sidney/Northmont game at the end of the season will now be a Double-Header.
TheBenchwarmer
05-02-09, 10:55 AM
Sidney vs Springboro has been canceled altogether.
I think they will HAVE to reschedule this game....it's a league game and counts towards the league standings. All of the GWOC South games are treated as GWOC North games.
I think they will HAVE to reschedule this game....it's a league game and counts towards the league standings. All of the GWOC South games are treated as GWOC North games.
Yes, I can't see how they could cancel that game. Two of the best teams in their respective divisions. It's not fair to other teams that had to play them. :blush:
Speaking of rain..... rainouts yesterday, and more than likely this afternoon's games will be rained out. Our game is scheduled for 3pm, they should move it up and start at noon!!! :shrug:
Rain. :wallbang:
ButlerAviator83
05-03-09, 12:52 AM
Sidney vs Springboro has been canceled altogether.
Looks like they will try again Monday.
Jeez o Pete! Here we go again! Rain rain go away!!!!!
:help:
billyjake
05-07-09, 10:54 AM
My lawn has never looked better...
ButlerAviator83
05-07-09, 12:36 PM
My lawn has never looked better...
I agree...bad for baseball, but my lawn looks like a lush green carpeted golf course!
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