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May 6, 2015
10:52:47pm
My own rant about your rant
I haven't posted in a long time, but your ignorance has forced me from the shadows. Your assumption is basically that the pitchers have an unfair advantage in softball. If this was the case, the team with the best pitcher would win the championship. There was one pitcher in softball that through nearly every inning of her career, Monica Abbott, and she won 0 national championships. The second best pitcher in the same era as Abbott was Cat Osterman (the NCAA record holder for Strikeouts per 7 innings pitched). Osterman also never won a championship. They combined to hold nearly every softball pitching record in existence, but could not win championships. In the past four years the nations best pitcher only won the championship once (Oklahoma's Keilani Rickett's in 2013).

The second problem I have with your rant is that this is sports. If you have an advantage, you ride that advantage as long as you can. There is no restriction on how many times a RB can rush nor on how many times a QB can throw. In college basketball, you continue to go to the guy with the hot hand (remember Jimmer) to win games. I don't see why you would advocate pitching restrictions on a team that is riding its best player to victory.

You also mentioned in your earlier thread that all women's sports have cartels and that the same teams win every year. This was true of softball for many years, but since the year 2000 there have been 9 different national champions crowned (Three Pac-10 teams have two championships each). During the same time frame college football and men's college basketball have each had 10 different teams as national champions (Duke and Connecticut have 3 each for MBB in that time frame and Alabama had the most in CFB with 3). Women's basketball has had 6 teams win championships, of which Connecticut had 9 titles. That is a cartel on talent.

I love baseball, but softball is a lot more entertaining. The game is faster and more often than not there are more than 3 runs scored by the winning team. For example, in baseball a hit that stays in the infield usually results in an out. In softball specialists called slap hitters (similar to how Ichiro bats, but with more running at the pitcher) make their living on infield singles and usually lead the NCAA in batting average. You should really give softball a chance, the game can be very entertaining when you understand what you are watching.

Okay I feel better rant over.
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