2011 Major World Series Preview
2011 Major World Series
Preview
The 2011 USSSA Men's Major World Series will again take place at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Champion's Stadium in Kissimmee, Florida the home of the Atlanta Braves spring training games. The tournament starts on Wednesday, September 21st ends with the championship game on Sunday, September 25h. The tournament features 14 of the top 16 teams in the nation.
Link to the World Series Almanac
The tournaments winner's bracket will be streamed live at ConferenceUSSSA.com
Whatever games they don't broadcast, which will be most of the loser's bracket, will be broadcast on SoftballCenter.com
Also at softballcenter.com we will have the chat room open to discuss the games.
The field of teams is a good one on paper. Unfortunately a lot of the teams are in some turmoil chemistry wise. And a few of the teams are missing key players. It should be a good show though.
Men's Major Coverage:
Date | Time | Match Up | Live Broadcast |
Sept 21st | 5:30 pm ET | Combat/Pharmapar vs Team 454 | Watch Live |
Sept 21st | 7:00 pm ET | Doerflinger vs GTL | Watch Live |
Sept 21st | 8:30 pm ET | Resmondo vs TaylorMade | Watch Live |
Sept 21st | 10:00 pm ET | Team Combat vs Sinister | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 9:00 am ET | Sonny's vs Down2Earth.com | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 10:30 am ET | Wood Law vs R&M Metals | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 12:00 pm ET | Shoppe vs EWS | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 1:30 pm ET | Suncoast Reebok vs Darkside | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 4:00 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 15 | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 5:30 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 14 | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 7:00 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 16 | Watch Live |
Sept 22nd | 8:30 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 13 | Watch Live |
Sept 23rd | 4:30 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 22 | Watch Live |
Sept 23rd | 7:00 pm ET | Home Run Derby | Watch Live |
Sept 23rd | 9:00 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 21 | Watch Live |
Sept 24th | 7:00 pm ET | Winners Bracket Game 27 | Watch Live |
Sept 25th | 11:00 am ET | Championship Game | Watch Live |
Sept 25th | 1:00 pm ET | Championship Game (If Necessary) | Watch Live |
Losers Bracket
Date | Time | Match Up | Live Broadcast |
Sept 23rd | 8:00 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 9 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 23rd | 9:30 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 10 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 23rd | 11:00 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 11 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 23rd | 12:30 pm ET | Losers Bracket Game 12 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 23rd | 4:30 pm ET | Losers Bracket Game 20 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 24th | 8:00 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 19 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 24th | 8:00 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 18 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 24th | 9:30 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 17 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 24th | 11:00 am ET | Losers Bracket Game 23 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 24th | 12:30 pm ET | Losers Bracket Game 24 | SoftballCenter.com |
Sept 24th | 3:00 pm ET | Losers Bracket Game 25 | Watch Live |
Sept 24th | 5:00 pm ET | Losers Bracket Game 26 | Watch Live |
Sept 24th | 8:30 pm ET | Losers Bracket Game 28 | Watch Live |
Sept 25th | 9:00 am ET | Losers Bracket Final | Watch Live |
You can also follow the scores on the softballcenter twitter section on the homepage or on the bracket link
Wednesday – Saturday weather in Kissimmee, Florida
The ESPN Wide World Of Sports
DW's World Series soap box rant:
Lets have a good professional looking world series.
1) When the star players "beg" for a walk by starting towards first base before the ball crosses the plate, let's take an extra second and make sure it's really a ball and not a strike. Currently strike two against the top players basically has to be a perfect pitch. Currently it looks as though umpires are looking for something "wrong" with the pitch so they can just agree with the star hitter and give him the walk. If its a strike? then call it a strike. There is going to be a lot of cameras on the major games this year and noone wants to see the best team of the decade, Resmondo, walk their way to a championship and lead the tournament in average walks per game. They are plenty capable of run ruling all of their opponents without any walks.
2) Pitchers – let's make Resmondo hit the ball. It's a baseball field, maybe they'll fly out 365 feet. Do we really need Vince Bisbee (who, don't get me wrong, is a great hitter) walking 62 times this year? The top 3 in walks this year were Bisbee, Jr, and Streibel. Basically if you walk these three, then Connell gets to swing for a grand slam. Some of this falls on the umpires who need to call the pitch and don't just automatically try to find something wrong with it so you don't "show up" the player. This is the world series, lets get it right.
3) The other thing that needs to be done is to toss the players that swear and throw the bat excessively towards the backstop. I've seen three bats go through the fence like darts in the last two years. This is very dangerous and there will be kids at the major. This goes for EVERY player on EVERY team. Announce it at the managers meeting and at the pre-game meeting.
4) Bat testing. It is time to test the bats at the World Series after every two games played. Why? Because the bat doctors have "dialed in" their bat doctoring to the point that this is the only way. Those shiny new bats that don't have a mark on them shouldn't be testing just above the minimum limit. I understand its a lot of extra work but sponsors and players have put a lot of money and time into making the Conference the best in the nation, lets make it a clean game and get the hot sticks out this week. Any bats that are removed for failing the test at anytime during the week should not be allowed to be replaced. You get 20 bats for the 5 days and thats it.
5) Lets see a new umpire rotation behind homeplate. There isn't one person on ANY team in the land that doesn't want this. Doc is a great umpire, a hall of famer, and a great guy. But lets switch it up, just for the heck of it. Lets have a straight rotation of all 8 conference umpires behind the plate for Resmondo games, GTL games, and everyone other game. If I have to take pictures of the homeplate umpire for each game and put it in the report, that can be done. It is quite frankly the biggest conspiracy theory going and quite frankly the Conference teams including Resmondo are tired of it. Again this is nothing against Doc, I'd be saying the same thing if it was any other umpire behind the plate for the Resmondo games, lets just get a full rotation going.
Good luck to all teams…keep it clean…come out free swinging…we are watching!
Link to a poll on umpire rotation
Link to a poll on who you think will win the Major World Series
Wed 8:30 PM Std. (1 | | |||||||
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Fri 4:30 PM Std. (22 | | |||||||
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Thu 7:00 PM Std. (16 | Sun 11:00 AM Std. (30 | | ||||||
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Wed 7:00 PM Std. (8 | | | | |||||
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Loser's | Bracket | | | |||||
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L-16 | | | ||||||
L-1 | Fri 4:30 PM F4 (20 | | L-27 | | | |||
Fri 8:00 AM Std. (9 | | | | | ||||
L-2 | Sat 11:00 AM Std. (23 | | | | Sun 1:00 PM Std. (31 | | ||
L-15 | | | | | | |||
L-3 | Sat 8:00 AM Std. (19 | Sat 3:00 PM Std. (25 | | Sun 9:00 AM Std. (29 | | |||
Fri 9:30 AM Std. (10 | | | | | ||||
L-4 | L-21 | | | | ||||
L-14 | | | | |||||
L-5 | Sat 8:00 AM F4 (18 | | Sat 8:30 PM Std. (28 | | ||||
Fri 11:00 AM Std. (11 | | | | |||||
L-6 | Sat 12:30 PM Std. (24 | | | | ||||
L-13 | | | | | ||||
L-7 | Sat 9:30 AM Std. (17 | Sat 5:00 PM Std. (26 | L-30 | |||||
Fri 12:30 PM Std. (12 | | |||||||
L-8 | L-22 |
My Picks (which we all know aren't very good, and I'm disapointed in myself for not picking any real upsets but thats the way it goes)
I'm rooting for Darkside, D2E, and GTL or Combat/Laser Vision to pull the upset.
[FL] RESMONDO-SPECIALTY TANK / WORT | ||||||||
Wed 8:30 PM Std. (1 | Resmondo | |||||||
[VA] TAYLORMADE/TM SPORTS/MIZUNO | ||||||||
Thu 8:30 PM Std. (13 | Resmondo | |||||||
[TXN] WOOD LAW/MIZUNO/FAMOUS/EASTON | ||||||||
Thu 10:30 AM Std. (2 | R&M Metals | |||||||
[IA] R&M METALS/TROUPE/TCP/EASTON | ||||||||
Fri 9:00 PM Std. (21 | Resmondo | |||||||
[TN] SHOPPE / TEAM TPS / D2E / ELIT | ||||||||
Thu 12:00 PM Std. (3 | Shoppe | |||||||
[IL] EWS/SHIRTSANDLOGOS/DRGRAPHX/EASTON | ||||||||
Thu 5:30 PM Std. (14 | Team 454 | |||||||
[WA] COMBAT/PHARMAPAR/TRANSAT HOLID | ||||||||
Wed 5:30 PM Std. (4 | Team 454 | |||||||
[VA] TEAM 454 EMERALD/WORTH | ||||||||
Sat 7:00 PM Std. (27 | Resmondo | |||||||
[WA] TEAM COMBAT/LASERVISION/D2E/SU | ||||||||
Wed 10:00 PM Std. (5 | Team Combat | |||||||
[MI] SINISTER/PRITCHARD/MIKEN | ||||||||
Thu 4:00 PM Std. (15 | Team Combat | |||||||
[FL] SUNCOAST REEBOK | ||||||||
Thu 1:30 PM Std. (6 | Suncoast | |||||||
[CT] DARKSIDE/TYJA/EASTON | ||||||||
Fri 4:30 PM Std. (22 | GTL | |||||||
[WY] SONNY'S/DESERT FALLS/ELITE | ||||||||
Thu 9:00 AM Std. (7 | Sonny's | |||||||
[GA] DOWN2EARTHSPORTS.COM/WORTH | ||||||||
Thu 7:00 PM Std. (16 | GTL | Sun 11:00 AM Std. (30 | Resmondo | |||||
[WA] DOERFLINGER/TSC/PRO-COAT/COMBA | ||||||||
Wed 7:00 PM Std. (8 | GTL | |||||||
[WA] GTL CARTEL/DEMARINI | ||||||||
Loser's | Bracket | |||||||
L-16 Sonny's | ||||||||
L-1 Taylormade | Fri 4:30 PM F4 (20 | Wood Law | L-27 GTL | |||||
Fri 8:00 AM Std. (9 | Wood Law | |||||||
L-2 Wood Law | Sat 11:00 AM Std. (23 | Wood Law | Sun 1:00 PM Std. (31 | |||||
L-15 Suncoast | ||||||||
L-3 EWS | Sat 8:00 AM Std. (19 | Suncoast | Sat 3:00 PM Std. (25 | Team 454 | Sun 9:00 AM Std. (29 | Combat | ||
Fri 9:30 AM Std. (10 | Pharmapar | |||||||
L-4 Pharmapar | L-21 Team 454 | |||||||
L-14 Shoppe | ||||||||
L-5 Sinister | Sat 8:00 AM F4 (18 | Shoppe | Sat 8:30 PM Std. (28 | Combat | ||||
Fri 11:00 AM Std. (11 | Darkside | |||||||
L-6 Darkside | Sat 12:30 PM Std. (24 | Shoppe | ||||||
L-13 R&M Metals | ||||||||
L-7 D2E | Sat 9:30 AM Std. (17 | R&M Metals | Sat 5:00 PM Std. (26 | Combat | L-30 | |||
Fri 12:30 PM Std. (12 | D2E | |||||||
L-8 Doerflinger | L-22 Team Combat | |||||||
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