We did not approve state tournament dates at our fall meeting because of
concern that we would be starting some tournaments too early.
I have attached the original proposal. I have highlighted the two
tournaments that people thought were too early. Last year with the same
interval between state and regionals as these teams would have, some people
complained there wasn't enough time to get from state to regionals.
Since my teams have been in that situation for intermediate the last two
years, and made it fine, I prefer the alternative dates of starting the two
highlighted tournaments a week later. This means five
tournaments would start on the same date. This may create a shortage of
umpires able to travel, but my experience the last few years is that we
have had very few umpires travel, anyway, except for baseball majors.
Please give me a vote for Original - Option 1 / or the highlighted one with
the two baseball tournaments moved a week later - Option 2.
*Note my change of email address*. This is due to a Microsoft screw up with
my email account that lost years of historical emails that helped keep me
informed when things came up. It crashed Jan. 1 and none of it was
recoverable - although I have kept the ones that have blank sender areas,
no readable message, a subject line of <No Subject> and the actual date and
time sent in hopes that someday I can figure out how to get them back. I
was able to get on the server and download everything for 9 months prior to
the crash. Sorting through more than 10,000 emails, figuring out which I
had taken action on and which I still needed to take action on. Luckily,
senility hasn't crept in, so other than the sheer volume, I didn't have too
much trouble with the sorting. I'm not a fan of Google, but I can no longer
trust Outlook as a reliable email vehicle.
*Please give me your vote for schedules by Wednesday, Feb. 19. *
