Unless I read the bracket wrong, it looks like there are 4 teams left, Firebirds, DBAT, AA Prospects, and Renegades -- all but the FB have one loss. DBAT vs AA Prospects due to natural pairings -- FB vs Renegades. Renegades must beat FB for DBAT (if they beat AAP) to reeive a bye into the Championship. If DBAT and FB win -- DBAT must sweep a DH tomorrow. Yawnnnnnnn

Go DBAT!

quote:

Originally posted by catcher:
Chubs-a-Hoya,
SWAC has his number, address, email address, grandmamas number, and all other
pertinent information...

SWAC has also made 2 home visits and will be vacationing with them in August...

DBAT defeated 5 - 4 by AA prospects. Good Luck to AA Prospects and the Renegades in defeating the Firebirds. It was a good run for the DBAT - Greer defeating the AA Prospects, Trombly, Tigers, Renegades and then playing the Firebirds and loosing a heartbreaker to the AA Prospects after leading early in the game. It was an excellent experience for this team and will prepare them for the CM State Playoffs which will be tough as well. Also, congrats to the Marshals as both organizations represented Texas well.

This is an email that I sent today. I would ask anyone else that has been involved to please follow up.



Mr. Neely and Mr. Diamond,


My name is Cade Griffis and I am the owner of D-BAT, Inc. This is the first email I have written of its kind in 10 years of being in business. My only regret is I did not write this email last year after our experience last year at the Arizona AABC World Series Qualifier.

I am copying Sam Carpenter, Richard Holt and many others on this email. Although Sam, Richard and I may not see eye to eye on everything I believe they will tell you that I am not a complainer nor am I dishonest. I am one of the biggest believers in AABC. I believe it is the only true thing left in select baseball. I am a believer that when you lose the season should be over; I believe you should win your way to the big dance. You should not buy yourself a world series. I have 3 teams ever year 16, 17, and 18. All of my teams play AABC no questions asked. I was disappointed a few years ago to hear that AABC were doing regional and World Series qualifiers. Saying that I felt forced to go spend the money to play in the qualifiers. Even though I do not believe in them I could not afford to not give my teams the opportunity to go to the big dance.

I played in Farmington in 1993 with the Burkburnett Black Sox; my teams have made the Mickey Mantle World Series and or Connie Mack World Series 4 times in the past 4 years. I have seen the great things that AABC has to offer and you guys do a great job.

My teams have gone to the Arizona W.S Qualifier the past two years and both years it has been a total nightmare. Ron Forbes has vocally said and I quote “This is my tournament and I will fix it the way I want”. This quote was heard by 3 different people one being Ryan Brewer the owner of Albuquerque Baseball Academy. (I am also copying him on this email). Last year I had my 17 and 18 year old teams in the same tournament and as my 18 year old manager watched as he was in an argument with another coach he turned and said “What are you looking at fat a**” (I am also copying him on this email). The manger of my 17 year old team asked him why he switched the game time after the bracket was posted and he said “If you don’t like it don’t come back”.

This leads me to my conclusion. This is actually what he wants. He does not want anyone to come back so he can run the table and experience Farmington year after year. He has told 3 people from 3 different teams and from 3 different states “If you don’t like it don’t come back”. The experience was so bad last year I decided to send one team to Arizona and one to N.Y. instead of both teams going to Arizona.

Rusty Greer who coaches my 17-year-old team called my on Thursday and asked me to look at the brackets. Mr. Forbes completely stacked the bracket to his favor. I know this is a bold allegation but I beg you to look into this. He even said and I quote “This is my tournament and I will stack it the way I want”. Last year when questioned about the same thing he told our head coach that the brackets where picked by a closed meeting that no coaches were invited. This year’s bracket included all the Dallas teams, Trombly, All American Prospects, and the Florida Renegades in one bracket. The other bracket had the Arizona Firebirds, 2 Albuquerque teams, and Rocky Mountain. I also ask you to look at the byes that were given out. I ask you to please look at the brackets from both years and tell me that this is the way AABC does things.

I would like to make a few a few suggestions:

1. I believe something of this great importance should have an official from AABC fly down and oversee the tournament.
2. I believe if we have to play pool play first the teams should be seeded not just put in a bracket in random by a manager of a team in the tournament.

I have played in 10-15 AABC tournaments that Sam Carpenter has run and I have never ONE problem with the way he does things. I do not claim to be Mr. AABC or the biggest supporter. Sam Carpenter and many others have done way more then I will do in my lifetime for AABC and the game. But I do tell people every chance I get that AABC is the only true organization left that makes you play the game the right way. This needs to be addressed and stopped.

If you would like me to fax you the brackets or if you would like to speak to me my information is below. I also invite all the other teams to please email Mr. Diamond and Mr. Neely your experience at this same event.



Thanks;

Cade Griffis
972-387-3228 WK
972-387-3229 Fax

www.dallasbat.net

www.dbatsports.com

www.dallasbat.com

Cade,

Where can we find Mr. Diamond and Mr. Neely's email address?

I'd like to also send them a letter of apology for your sentence structure and grammer errors.

Seriously, good letter. I cannot speak for anything in Arizona, but I will back you on AABC being the last true baseball.

GUT,

The concept of state, regional, and national is great, but the above non-sense has got to go...The old gal (AABC) is tainted until they bang the qualifiers...If they keep the qualifiers, they need
an AABC rep there to be the Tournament Director. Keep
the coaches out of it...as chubs mentions in his post.

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Originally posted by Ken Guthrie:
I'd like to also send them a letter of apology for your sentence structure and grammer errors. :

Ken: When you send the letter please spell grammar right

No more Labs Ken?

Sorry for the above hijack.

Back to the original topic. Congrats to DBAT and all Texas Teams in Phoenix, it just shows you the talent the Great State of Texas has year in and year out.

DBat didn't just lead early in the game against the Prospects. DBat led late - right until the end.
4-3 DBat with 1 out in the 7th.

Great run, hard ending.
Enjoyed it.

Congrats to DBAT 17's. They are playing great baseball!! Very talented bunch. Good luck Cade with getting some sort of response from AABC. I agree 100% with having a AABC official on site with the responsibility of setting brackets.

What were the results in the Championship game?

Email adresses are found here.


http://www.aabc.us/contact/Default.aspx

I heard the Firebirds won.

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Originally posted by TromblyBaseball:
I heard the Firebirds won.

I don't see how they could have avoided winning it.

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Originally posted by TromblyBaseball:
I heard the Firebirds won.

Steve, I found this on the AZ Diamond Report:

6-29-08: The Arizona Firebirds took first place in the Arizona National Connie Mack World Series Qualifier. The title gives the team a spot in the Connie Mack World Series.

After Trombly, Tigers, Marshals, Renegades, AA Prospects, and DBAT beat the hell out of each other for two days I'm not suprised the Firebirds won it.

I don't mean to be controversial here but....

What did you all expect? A tiger doesn't change his stripes (ask JAFO). The tournament's outcome should be a surprise to no one. Sad? Disappointing? YES! For those inclined to visit hell next year (no offense OBN), expect the same treatment.

No dount the Firebirds have a very good team -- they do every year. And I'm sure their roster is set for Farmington. The rest of us will have to earn it the old-fashioned way, eh? I imagine the South Plains Regional will be a heck of a tourney.

Was there a qualifier in California this year?

Does the regional have a definitive host at this point?

-MD

Chubs,
I saw your post and wanted to say Hi.
Your boy from Grapevine is having a great summer pitching for Mustangs-Randle. I stay in touch with tychco all of the time. Hope that you are doing well and best of luck the rest of the summer.

quote:

Originally posted by KCR:
Catcher in Marshmellow Land can you PM me that C Brooks kids phone number. Thanks Chubs

The AABC Connie Mack Western Regional is in Long Beach this year at Blair Field (Home to Long Beach State, Area Code Games, etc).

quote:

Originally posted by Panther Dad:
I don't mean to be controversial here but....

What did you all expect? A tiger doesn't change his stripes (ask JAFO). The tournament's outcome should be a surprise to no one. Sad? Disappointing? YES! For those inclined to visit hell next year (no offense OBN), expect the same treatment.

No dount the Firebirds have a very good team -- they do every year. And I'm sure their roster is set for Farmington. The rest of us will have to earn it the old-fashioned way, eh? I imagine the South Plains Regional will be a heck of a tourney.

Was there a qualifier in California this year?

Does the regional have a definitive host at this point?

-MD

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t a team from the DFW area go through the Renegade, Firebirds and others to win that qualifier last year?