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I liked the 3 game series. Pitching depth and many other factors made the series interesting. As far as the automatic region berth changing....what sense does that make? Takes all importance off the regular season. Are they going to now have a banquet and invite every player and make sure they all get a trophy as well? Better yet, why even play a district schedule? How about having a blind draw for the tournament and playing it out that way.. and even make it more interesting by having the winner advance to the region as well as the 4th place team. Talk about strategy..how many times can you pitch backwards to get into that slot. Why the 4th place team you ask? Because that makes as much sense as the regular season district champion not getting an automatic berth into the region. Thank you and good night now.

On December 8 at David Lipscombs Allen Arena, the Middle Tennessee Baseball Foundation will host Hot Stove Night. Dinner will be served by Pig & Pie and special guests include - Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt University, Stevve Peterson - MTSU, Jeff Forehand - David Lipscomb University, Dave Jarvis - Belmont University, Matt Myers - Western KY, Mike Lord - Trevecca and Wood Hunt - Cumberland. George Plaster will emcee this event while former Major Leaguer John Mitchell will be our auctioneer. Tickets are $25.00 each or $20.00 each for groups of 15 or more. Please email me at duck34_aes@yahoo.com if you are interested in attending this event.

On November 19 at David Lipscomb University's Shambly Theater, from 7AM-10AM, the Middle Tennessee Baseball Foundation will host Jack Lavender Holiday Breakfast. This is a free breakfast. However, donations will be accepted and every dime will go directly into the renovation of Jack Lavender Field, or many people also know as the home of Twitty City Baseball. On December 8 at David Lipscombs Allen Arena, the Middle Tennessee Baseball Foundation will host Hot Stove Night. Dinner will be served by Pig & Pie and special guests include - Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt University, Stevve Peterson - MTSU, Jeff Forehand - David Lipscomb University, Dave Jarvis - Belmont University, Matt Myers - Western KY, Mike Lord - Trevecca and Wood Hunt - Cumberland. George Plaster will emcee this event while former Major Leaguer John Mitchell will be our auctioneer. Tickets are $25.00 each or $20.00 each for groups of 15 or more. Please email me at duck34_aes@yahoo.com if you are interested in attending this event.

You would have to say , he must have been around the plate enough to give Columbia their first lost of the district. Right? I may be wrong, but my understanding is that he pitched in something like an 8-1 loss in the tourney? As I mentioned before I was not there and the only details I got were that he hit 90 but was not around the plate.

The kid did hit 90. I did not see but was told by the scout that had the gun on him. I understand he wasn't necessarily throwing it over the plate, but did hit 90.

Lebanon won 6-3. Siegel won with a walk off homer by Fullerton. They are playing Blackman as you are reading this.

Sources say 9-7 Siegel after 6 complete innings of play.

Update Courtesy of Field Reporter David Limbaugh: Live from the field, Limbaugh reports that all games are banged for Saturday at Riverdale and Blackman. Games will be played at 3:00 and 5:30 on Sunday at both Riverdale and Blackman (weather permitting of course.)

Blackman 5 Lebanon 2 Final Siegel 7 Cookeville 3 Game 1 Final Siegel 9 Cookeville 8 Btm. 5 (Siegel is home team in this game)

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1. Did not see the apology, so I was just sticking up for a friend. 2. I have a life. Just staying around the house this weekend, since that is what they are requesting here in Murfreesboro to avoid congestion while cleaning up. 3. Looks like it is your head it is getting to, since you had never posted before this topic and you have now posted 7 times on one topic. You might want to go check on that little sheep out back, it's probably starting to miss you. That's a joke, so don't think I was getting all personal and talking about people that own sheep or anything. Best of luck to your Babe Ruth team this year!

Dude, what is your deal? Have you met Limbaugh? Why don't you go to a Riverdale game, ask to talk to Limbaugh and then be a jerk to his face. I could care less about your comments towards me, but Limbaugh is one of the most giving and caring people I have ever met. Not to mention if you end up not liking him, you can reserve a table for one for that club, cause you are the charter member and only member that many of us know. You have taken a couple of posts that were poking fun at people that constantly second guess Coach Chaffin's coaching ability and somehow misunderstood or twisted in your head to be against Babe Ruth coaches and taken it personal. There are many fine people in Cookeville, including Babe Ruth coaches that I don't believe Limbaugh said anything negative about. (If you can find the post, paste it and I will be proved wrong.) There seem to be a few that like to get on here and bash the coach. To spell it out for you, when I made my "best 9 or worst 9" comment, it was poking fun at the people that do get on here and constantly second guess Chaffin. I like Chaffin and he knew it was joking around on our end. Just like Limbaughs lineup that had good, bad, better, best.....etc. for the batting order, it was a joke. Sorry you don't get it. I said all that to say this. Limbaugh, nor myself have anything against Babe Ruth coaches or Coach Chaffin. As I mentioned before, I too, get paid not a dime to run our summer program, so my hats off to you. oldbones, I believe it was you that posted about not airing dirty laundry referencing the baseball budget. Great point! Well said and straight to the point. Happy Easter to all!!!

You need to make sure you read who wrote what posts before blasting anybody. Limbaugh said not the first bad thing about Babe Ruth coaches. I am the one that mentioned Chaffin playing his "best nine or worst nine." That was not a dig at Chaffin, but at people that get on here and try and blast one of the best coaches in the state (Chaffin), always second guessing his lineup. I am not a high school coach. I run a summer team and do it for FREEEE!!!!! Not many other summer programs can claim this and we are proud to do it also, so my hats off to you for volunteering your time with your Babe Ruth team. Limbaugh's version of the lineup was done with the same purpose of my "best nine or worst nine." I am the one that also mentioned the things that go on behind the scenes. However, Cookeville's baseball budget had no reason to be posted on CoachT, just like your salary at work, or mine does not need to be posted on here. Just some friendly advice. You might want to make sure you have who posted what and exactly what it is, before just scanning key words or reading the Cliff Notes and coming on here accusing Limbaugh or anybody else of posting things they did not post.

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Not that my figure is any better, just not on the internet.

You are correct. His son plays for us in the summer and I am sure I will see quite a bit of him. Body By Bartlett should be the title!

Sorry, Limbaugh! I must have written it down wrong. Limbaugh was working on the field and I was in the pressbox chowing down when the score was called in. I was working on getting my figure to match that fine looking thing that coaches first at Siegel and had his pic on Coach T for a couple of days!!! /roflol.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":roflol:" border="0" alt="roflol.gif" />

Sisco at Blackman has 8 going into tonight. Townes at Smryna has 3, I think. So does Kosinski at Siegel.

Who had a radar gun last night?

If he wanted to help, we would welcome him. None of us get paid, so the hiring part is out. Strictly volunteer. I am sure that we could find a role for him to coach with Coach Treadway and Coach Crunk.

I will let it be after this. However, do you go to practices? Are you in on team meetings? Maybe attitudes play a factor in some of his decisions in not playing a player that is allegedly better than certain players that are starting. Maybe there is a better chemistry with certain lineup combinations. Like I mentioned before, I am sure that he is not putting a lineup on the field that doesn't fit the situation. You can't tell me that Butch has cut, or not started, players that could have helped him advance to state or win the district unless there was a legit reason behind it. Last year, Cookeville had 4 very good seniors in Griggs, Reeder, Farley and Cox (if I have left somebody off, I apologize, my memory is going with my age). They ran into a very hot (and talented) Lincoln County team at the wrong time. The best team doesn't always win, but the best team at the time wins. The players play the game, not the coach. The players do, however, make out the lineup. They do this by deciding how hard they are going to practice and play and what kind of teammate they will be. I do know that last years Cookeville team had chemistry issues, not Coach Chaffin issues. The players attitudes sometimes reflect what mommy and daddy really feel. This comes from having to listen to it when they get home. Bottom line, when the coach is right, he is right, when he is wrong, he is still right. Parents, or non-parents, should be more supportive of their respective program, cause getting on message boards and complaining does no good. Just stirs the pot. Unless you are putting in your time for what little compensation these guys do get, I would just call time and temperature and talk to them. Or go ask Coach Chaffin if you can help and be an assistant Coach, put in all the same time he does and see if you still have the energy to get on coacht and blast him every chance you can. I will respectfully disagree with anything that you say to argue my points. Not saying that I am 100% correct, just saying, this is going nowhere and you cannot change my mind and that most of your posts on this subject get laughed at anyhow (by more people than just me). So, off to the refrigerator in the garage and Good Night Now!

No, he really does not deserve every bit of it and more.. I am sure I am wrong on the exact count, but that is why the Cookeville Baseball Program went through something like 3 coaches in 4 or 5 years a few years back. People like you can never be satisfied. That is so sad. A coach like Chaffin, that would be welcome with open arms at several other programs, gets the kind of garbage treatment he gets, is unfair. I am glad that he has thick skin. Kinda pathetic that you admit it is sad that he deserves every bit of it and more. Kinda like you admit that you are wrong. Maybe you should admit to yourself that little johnny is getting treated the way he should be treated. I know that every parent (including myself) thinks their kid is the greatest player on the team, but not every team has a great player. I hope that Coach Chaffin is around for years to come and Cookeville is a major player in whatever district they may be in. He is a fine man and a great coach. If you are a sour Cookevile parent, you must be drinking from the wrong Kool Aid or just don't know baseball.

I don't get why Cookeville fans constantly ride Butch Chaffin. He is one of the best coaches in the state and in the end his teams seem to always be in contention. Every coach does things that makes people scratch their heads, but I don't know any coach that puts a team on the field and thinks "man, I sure am glad that I didn't put the best lineup for the situation on the field." Coaches do things for one reason or another. There might be more going on behind the scenes than people realize. I actually heard at a summer tournament 2 years ago from a Cookeville parent that their kid should be the starting 3rd baseman over "that kid we got there." "That kid" was Bo Reeder. Point made. I know this is going to cause a frenzy with you Cookeville faithful, but after having some of the top players from your program the past several summers (who seemed to have very few complaints about their coach), you should appreciate what you have. He instills some discipline and "get after it" that very few other coaches do.

Riverdale 10 Cookeville 4 - Final Blackman 16 White County 1 Final Scores Courtesy of David Limbaugh

Sorry guys, didn't see you had posted the score when I started the other thread. Great game tonight. The Barrett kid was tough on the hill. Has he signed anywhere to play in college yet?