Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament? I have never had so many tell me this before. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do?
Hi Melanie, We have a policy in D13, if they don’t make the manager’s meeting, they don’t get coin flip privileges. 😊 In D13, the coin flip does two things: 1) The winner gets to pick home or away, and 2) the loser gets to pick their dugout. So… if you don’t have coin flip privileges, you always get the worst dugout and always most likely visitor. 😉 We don’t have default “home or away” dugouts… and just because you are “higher seed” doesn’t mean you get to be home. It’s always a coin flip every game in the tournament. Sincerely, JP District Administrator (DA) Washington Little League – District 13 E: dadist13@wadist13ll.org<mailto:dadist13@wadist13ll.org> T:509-995-4200 http://www.wadist13ll.org Follow us on Facebook@wadist13ll [cid:image001.png@01DBF017.C1800BF0][cid:image002.jpg@01DBF017.C1800BF0] From: Wadas <wadas-bounces@lists.rodeonetworks.com> On Behalf Of Melanie Heaton DA D6 via Wadas Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 2:48 PM To: Washington DAs Discussion Forum <wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> Cc: Melanie Heaton DA D6 <Melanie.Heaton@dist6wa.org> Subject: [Wadas] Managers/coach meeting Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament? I have never had so many tell me this before. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do? [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wBLZ_ndWypiq2CCsVCoZjACv8w_...]
One said he doesn’t want to. The others won’t give a reason just said they won’t be there. On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM Janice via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Melanie, What reasoning are they giving for not coming Janice Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 8, 2025, at 3:51 PM, J. P. via Wadas <wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Hi Melanie,
We have a policy in D13, if they don’t make the manager’s meeting, they don’t get coin flip privileges. 😊 In D13, the coin flip does two things: 1) The winner gets to pick home or away, and 2) the loser gets to pick their dugout. So… if you don’t have coin flip privileges, you always get the worst dugout and always most likely visitor. 😉 We don’t have default “home or away” dugouts… and just because you are “higher seed” doesn’t mean you get to be home. It’s always a coin flip every game in the tournament.
Sincerely,
JP
District Administrator (DA)
Washington Little League – District 13
E: dadist13@wadist13ll.org
T:509-995-4200
Follow us on Facebook@wadist13ll
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*From:* Wadas <wadas-bounces@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *On Behalf Of *Melanie Heaton DA D6 via Wadas *Sent:* Tuesday, July 8, 2025 2:48 PM *To:* Washington DAs Discussion Forum <wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *Cc:* Melanie Heaton DA D6 <Melanie.Heaton@dist6wa.org> *Subject:* [Wadas] Managers/coach meeting
Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament?
I have never had so many tell me this before.
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do?
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D1 has moved to doing our meetings virtually usually in midweek at 8 pm. All teams were represented for the SB 9-11 State meeting. We had a good Q/A session. We also provided documents for points of interest, tournament summary of rules that is provided by Little League that we reviewed Doug Sheldon On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM J. P. via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Hi Melanie,
We have a policy in D13, if they don’t make the manager’s meeting, they don’t get coin flip privileges. 😊 In D13, the coin flip does two things: 1) The winner gets to pick home or away, and 2) the loser gets to pick their dugout. So… if you don’t have coin flip privileges, you always get the worst dugout and always most likely visitor. 😉 We don’t have default “home or away” dugouts… and just because you are “higher seed” doesn’t mean you get to be home. It’s always a coin flip every game in the tournament.
Sincerely,
JP
District Administrator (DA)
Washington Little League – District 13
E: dadist13@wadist13ll.org
T:509-995-4200
Follow us on Facebook@wadist13ll
*From:* Wadas <wadas-bounces@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *On Behalf Of *Melanie Heaton DA D6 via Wadas *Sent:* Tuesday, July 8, 2025 2:48 PM *To:* Washington DAs Discussion Forum <wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *Cc:* Melanie Heaton DA D6 <Melanie.Heaton@dist6wa.org> *Subject:* [Wadas] Managers/coach meeting
Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament?
I have never had so many tell me this before.
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do?
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Doug, If you do your meeting virtually, how/when do you check books? On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM Doug Sheldon via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
D1 has moved to doing our meetings virtually usually in midweek at 8 pm. All teams were represented for the SB 9-11 State meeting. We had a good Q/A session. We also provided documents for points of interest, tournament summary of rules that is provided by Little League that we reviewed
Doug Sheldon
On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM J. P. via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Hi Melanie,
We have a policy in D13, if they don’t make the manager’s meeting, they don’t get coin flip privileges. 😊 In D13, the coin flip does two things: 1) The winner gets to pick home or away, and 2) the loser gets to pick their dugout. So… if you don’t have coin flip privileges, you always get the worst dugout and always most likely visitor. 😉 We don’t have default “home or away” dugouts… and just because you are “higher seed” doesn’t mean you get to be home. It’s always a coin flip every game in the tournament.
Sincerely,
JP
District Administrator (DA)
Washington Little League – District 13
E: dadist13@wadist13ll.org
T:509-995-4200
Follow us on Facebook@wadist13ll
*From:* Wadas <wadas-bounces@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *On Behalf Of *Melanie Heaton DA D6 via Wadas *Sent:* Tuesday, July 8, 2025 2:48 PM *To:* Washington DAs Discussion Forum <wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *Cc:* Melanie Heaton DA D6 <Melanie.Heaton@dist6wa.org> *Subject:* [Wadas] Managers/coach meeting
Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament?
I have never had so many tell me this before.
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do?
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We have had 100% attendance at our last 4 state meetings. The only penalty we apply for managers not attending is that they lose the coin flip. We also remind them when they ask questions that it was covered at the meeting, and we don't offer them information on practice fields, etc. covered at the meeting, but we tell them if they ask. Secretly we root against them. On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM Ann Leggett via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Doug,
If you do your meeting virtually, how/when do you check books?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM Doug Sheldon via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
D1 has moved to doing our meetings virtually usually in midweek at 8 pm. All teams were represented for the SB 9-11 State meeting. We had a good Q/A session. We also provided documents for points of interest, tournament summary of rules that is provided by Little League that we reviewed
Doug Sheldon
On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM J. P. via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Hi Melanie,
We have a policy in D13, if they don’t make the manager’s meeting, they don’t get coin flip privileges. 😊 In D13, the coin flip does two things: 1) The winner gets to pick home or away, and 2) the loser gets to pick their dugout. So… if you don’t have coin flip privileges, you always get the worst dugout and always most likely visitor. 😉 We don’t have default “home or away” dugouts… and just because you are “higher seed” doesn’t mean you get to be home. It’s always a coin flip every game in the tournament.
Sincerely,
JP
District Administrator (DA)
Washington Little League – District 13
E: dadist13@wadist13ll.org
T:509-995-4200
Follow us on Facebook@wadist13ll
*From:* Wadas <wadas-bounces@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *On Behalf Of *Melanie Heaton DA D6 via Wadas *Sent:* Tuesday, July 8, 2025 2:48 PM *To:* Washington DAs Discussion Forum <wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> *Cc:* Melanie Heaton DA D6 <Melanie.Heaton@dist6wa.org> *Subject:* [Wadas] Managers/coach meeting
Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament?
I have never had so many tell me this before.
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do?
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Not yet so I am interested also in hearing others' feedback. On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM Melanie Heaton DA D6 via Wadas < wadas@lists.rodeonetworks.com> wrote:
Question for all. Have any of you had several managers tell you they can’t come or don’t want to come to the meeting for the state tournament?
I have never had so many tell me this before.
Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and if you have what did you do?
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