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The timing is terrible. Looks like bad p.r. for her.
We don't really support amateur athletics well in this country, and we're not all that good at women's professional sports. If you want to make a living, you have to do what is available. If the USA organizations don't like it, get funded. This nonsense has been going on since Jim Thorpe.
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USA Softball was pressuring her to sign a two-year contract with them. She wanted time to think about it, they removed her from the team.
http://newsok.com/ou-star-keilani-ricketts-wont-play-in-world-cup-of-softball/article/3860914
http://newsok.com/ou-star-keilani-ricketts-wont-play-in-world-cup-of-softball/article/3860914
We don't really support amateur athletics well in this country, and we're not all that good at women's professional sports. If you want to make a living, you have to do what is available. If the USA organizations don't like it, get funded. This nonsense has been going on since Jim Thorpe.
Good post!!!! Good for Keilani, looking out for herself. I can assure you if USA softball wanted her to pitch this summer, they could have pulled their selfish heads out of their ..... and made it happened. I wish nothing but the best for her and much success.
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The thing I don't understand is, if she didn't have any conflicts, which are not mentioned, why wouldn't she want to play?
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Sounds to me that she wanted to play. No place is she quoted saying she didn't want to play.
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Thanks for posting! Pretty much sums it up after US Softball tried to throw egg on Keilani!
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Good article. Both sides will be fine with the decisions they made.
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USA Softball needs some new people in decision making positions. As the article stated, they behaved as if they still have the threat of keeping a player off of the Olympic to hang over the player's head.
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Rival organizations compete for power in an environment in which the game barely exists beyond college? Is that what this is all about? I'm glad that all the people who love the sport are so eager to do whatever needs to be done to enhance the sport, as long as they end up in power. What's the old song about lobsters or crabs in a bucket?
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I like the fact the USA coach is allowing the catcher to call the pitches.
Good article. Both sides will be fine with the decisions they made.
I don't think both sides made a decision. Keilani had made one to play for Team USA this Summer. She tried out for the team, made the team, and intended on playing for the team this summer. In doing so, Keilani did not sign with National Pro Fastpitch like Turang, Shults, and Gascoigne. After tryouts, Team USA decided to force her to sign a four year contract and when she asked for more time, the decided to drop her from the team. No other player was asked to sign a four contract. It is laughable that Erikson and Isham claim that Keilani made a decision not to play.
If softball gets back in the Olympics (a long shot at best), I guarantee a bunch of those stars in the pros will want to play. Are they going to not let Monica Abbott, Keilani Ricketts, Cat Osterman, and others try out?
I like the fact the USA coach is allowing the catcher to call the pitches.
I don't like the fact that he has had Chamberlain bunt on multiple occasions all ready.
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I don't like the fact that he has had Chamberlain bunt on multiple occasions all ready.
I didn't agree with that either.
USA softball is a complete ------use your own term.
Japan sends its best, all of whom work for several firms that employ them of a morning and let them play of an afternoon, year-round. When they put together a national team, they don't have players held out because they work for a competing company. They send their best, and most are around 27-33.
Meanwhile, Erickson, the South Florida coach, decides to use a replacement for Keilani as a first-inning reliever, and she throws a couple of wild pitches to score two runs. Is she one of the nation's best? Did the nation's best pitch for Oregon last year? I think she's a sophomore at Oregon. The starter wasn't exactly the ace of the USA.
Let's see. While Japan is sending their best, Monica Abbott who'll turn 28 this month, has a 0.44 ERA pitching in the pros. Cat Osterman, now 30, has a 1.17 ERA for the pros. Lisa Norris, 26, has a 1.08 ERA for Akron. Michelle Gascoigne is fifth in the pros with an ERA of 2.07. This is while the other American ace, Keilani Ricketts, has essentially been told to accept their terms of go home (like where the tournament is). Perhaps a 32-year-old SS, Natasha Watley, who has hit 402, 481, 382, and 415 in her four years in the pros might help? Turang is eleventh in the league.
What are our best doing in the pros while Japan uses its best?
Erickson as a coach? Seems to be very dependent on a couple of pitchers, but doesn't seem to develop hitters.
Think we have enough hitting? Could the USA use a 24-year-old outfielder who is hitting 435 in the pros against people like Abbott and Osterman? Megan Williams might be a good addition to the team.
Japan sends its best, all of whom work for several firms that employ them of a morning and let them play of an afternoon, year-round. When they put together a national team, they don't have players held out because they work for a competing company. They send their best, and most are around 27-33.
Meanwhile, Erickson, the South Florida coach, decides to use a replacement for Keilani as a first-inning reliever, and she throws a couple of wild pitches to score two runs. Is she one of the nation's best? Did the nation's best pitch for Oregon last year? I think she's a sophomore at Oregon. The starter wasn't exactly the ace of the USA.
Let's see. While Japan is sending their best, Monica Abbott who'll turn 28 this month, has a 0.44 ERA pitching in the pros. Cat Osterman, now 30, has a 1.17 ERA for the pros. Lisa Norris, 26, has a 1.08 ERA for Akron. Michelle Gascoigne is fifth in the pros with an ERA of 2.07. This is while the other American ace, Keilani Ricketts, has essentially been told to accept their terms of go home (like where the tournament is). Perhaps a 32-year-old SS, Natasha Watley, who has hit 402, 481, 382, and 415 in her four years in the pros might help? Turang is eleventh in the league.
What are our best doing in the pros while Japan uses its best?
Erickson as a coach? Seems to be very dependent on a couple of pitchers, but doesn't seem to develop hitters.
Think we have enough hitting? Could the USA use a 24-year-old outfielder who is hitting 435 in the pros against people like Abbott and Osterman? Megan Williams might be a good addition to the team.
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