Queen City Mud Dogs Welcome to the blogs

Just a short comment....I understand the issue of rules violations with the interleague scenario. I helped to set up the interleague scenario. Without interleague, the leagues of Blue Springs, Fort Osage, Oak Grove and Queen City would not be able to schedule games for teams. Prior to interleague we were running into issues where we would have one team of an age of children. Nobody to play them agains so we would send them away. The interleague scenario has not been without issues. Any time you take 4 or 5 leagues and put them together you have to deal with differences in rules and expectations. The issue your team had to my recollection was over pitching limits. This has been a sore spot going back to the the 70's when I played. QCAA was the only league that went by innings pitched. Everyone else went by pitch counts. QCAA agreed to go by pitch counts for interleague games only. The conversation I had with the coaches of the Muddogs was that by rule your team had a legitimate reason to count this game as a win. I told them to do so. As the other team was from Blue Springs and outside any jurisdiction of QCAA I told the coaches there was little that QCAA could do to that team. I did send an email to the President of that league to tell him what happened. Outside of that there is nothing that can be done. EVERY season I stressed to coaches that playing by the interleague rules was important. I handled the teams from QCAA that did not. I cannot control what other leagues do. Protesting the game is important if there was a reason to protest. There is no Little League World Series on the line. We are not playing anymore for the right to go to a State Tournament. USSSA is the only affiliation in this area. They control the State Tournaments and if you want to pay to play in one you can do so. You could lose every game all summer long and still go to State. Since I had contacted the other league and had told the Muddogs to count it as a win I saw no other reason to accept the $100 fee for a protest (Also PRINTED for all to see). This amounts to nothing more than the coaches telling you what they interpreted the conversation to be.
Fact of the matter is that we are spending lots of time discussing issues that are outside the control of QCAA. This league would not exist were it not for the interleague. Plain and simple. Your division had 3 teams in it last summer. That would mean for a 14 game schedule you would have had to play each team 7 times. The bad blood would have been far worse than any pitch count issue you may have had. The complaints on rules and against umpires flew in all directions. Simply put, parents do not know how to sit back and watch their children play a game. Everyone seems to be concerned with the thought that everyone is against them. Wins make the game more fun. Nobody is disputing that. Just as an example, prior to this summer I received MANY emails and calls from a Blue Springs team about the Muddogs (the 2008 Muddogs team). Seems that one of the coaches on this team (no longer with you guys) felt it was more important to win than to play with sportsmanship. A 10 year old on the BS team only had one arm. He got on base (hit or walk) and while on first the Muddog pitcher made a pickoff attempt. The one armed player dove back in head first and with his only arm was on the bag safely. This coach hollered at the first baseman to hold the tag on him. This kid couldn't call time as he only had one arm. The umpire should have done it for him but didn't. The kid went to stand up and came off the bag. When the umpire didn't call him out the coach went on a tirade, yelling at a young man trying to umpire the game. The umpire then made the mistake of calling him out to appease the coach and got the parents of the other team in an uproar. This lead to both sides of the parents hollering at each other. What is the point? Parents need to realize that this is just a game and let the kids enjoy it. This is the major reason that coaches give to QCAA every year for not wanting to coach. Parents are TOO involved in the game and do not let them coach.
The issue of why teams are not playing in Independence has little to do with the league. It has more to do with competition levels for the Competitive Divisions and more about the way people act at the parks for the recreational divisions. Parents take their kids to BVAC and the YMCA because they do not want their kids to witness parents throwing punches and cokes at umpires, parents yelling at kids, coaches yelling at umpires.....I could go on for days about the number of parents and coaches that have been hauled away in police cars, cuffed, because they could not control themselves well enough because their kid was not playing shortstop or that the umpire made a judgment call they did not like.
Let's get back to the bigger issue. What can we do to get kids plaing these sports outside of the 2 days of practice they get each week? Look at the neighborhood parks all summer. They are empty.

THE PROBLEM WITH THE INTER CITY LEAGUES,THEY DON'T WANT US TO SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE THEY SAID IF WE RAISE TOO MUCH FLACK, THEY COULD REFUSE TO PLAY US IN THE FUTURE(qcaa LEAGUE) WHICH I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM PLAYING BLUE SPRINGS, BUT FORT OSAGE IS WHERE ALL THE PROBLEMS WERE ABOUT THEM CHEATING BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR FIELD. AND FOR US WITH OUR FIELDS IF WE DON'T FIGHT FOR OUR KIDS NOT ONLY WITH THEIR PARKS BUT WITH SOME OF THESE THINGS GOING ON IN SCHOOLS AS WELL, NOT TO GET OFF THE SUBJECT BUT MY DAUGHTER WENT OUT FOR VOLLEYBALL THIS YEAR AND MADE B TEAM SINCE SHE DIDN'T MAKE THE "A" TEAM SHE WAS LEFT TO BASICALLY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PLAY ON HER OWN RIGHT ALONG WITH OTHER GIRLS WE COMPLAINED AND COMPLAINED AND ALL WE WERE TOLD WAS THAT THE COACHES HAS BEEN COACHING FOR YEARS HE'S THE BEST. NOW IF MY DAUGHTER WANTED TO PLAY NEXT YEAR SHE LEARNED ALL SHE WAS GOING TO LEARN AT THE LAST TWO GAMES SHE PLAYED AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT THEY WON MORE GAMES THEN THE A TEAM DID GO FIGURE, MY CONCERN IS THAT TEACHERS ARE ALREADY DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THESE KIDS IN SCHOOL NOW WHERE DO WE MAKE THE CHANGE OUR KIDS FIGURE THAT THEY CAN DO IT WHY CAN'T WE AND BY THE TIME THEY GET IN HIGH SCHOOL THEIR CONFEDENCE LEVEL IS VERY LOW AND IT MAKES THEM NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED AND THEY END UP OUT ON THE STREETS DOING GOD KNOWS WHAT AND THEN THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO PICK UP AND TRY TO KEEP THEM INVOLVED IN SOMETHING,WHICH COMES DOWN TO OUT PARKS LET US PARENTS TEACH THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRYING EVERYTHING AND FINDING SOMETHING THEIR GOOD AT SO WHEN THEY DO HAVE A CHANCE TO PLAY IN SCHOOL THEY HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF MAKING THAT DREAM TEAM AND STAYING OFF THE STREETS. BEING THE WIFE OF A COACH IN BASEBALL THERE ARE KIDS THAT ROLL THE EYES,TALK BACK HAVE VERY LITTLE RESPECT FOR THEIR TEAM MATES AND COACHES, THAT THERE STIMS BACK TO THE PARENTS AND NOT SHOWING THEM HOW TO RESPECT NOW THOSE KIDS HAVE A VERY LITTLE CHANCE OF MAKING IT IN SPORTS AT ALL, BECAUSE THAT IS ONE THIND THEY DEMAND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LEARN AND RESPECT OTHERS GO HOME! THERE ARE KIDS THAT DO WANT TO LEARN AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WILL MAKE OUR FUTURE SOME DAY AND THOSE ARE THE ONES I WANT TO HELP BY DOING ALL THAT WE'RE DOING. MY NEXT BLOG WILL BE ABOUT THE INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL DISTRECT AND MAKING CHANGES IN THESE SCHOOLS AND HOW THESE TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS HAVE THEIR PRIORITIES ALL SCREWED UP, IT'S ALL FOR THE MONEY NOT THE KIDS FUTURE!!! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING I FEEL BETTER HAVE A GOOD DAY TO ALL!!!

OldNSpicy I understand your pain and what you have said. I have only been in Independence for a little over 3 years. You did great at blogging for your first time. I have found this blog site to hold to most hope at having my voice be heard. Let me tell you before this blog site I was just beating my head against brick walls and feeling like I could get about as much done talking to the dead. I am a shop owner that has been trying to make sense of stories like yours and sooo many others. I tried to go to every meeting in town that I could make to try and find answers. I then started my own meetings and formed The Independence Crime Task Force. It's for people like you and I and sooo many others who have fallen through the cracks of the Justice System. Living here has been like living in the Wild Wild West. The blogs have been the only place I have seen that can make things happen that I care about. The Mud Dogs need these blogs so their voices can be heard. The City of Independence needs these blogs to help our city officials have a change of heart. We need to work on building people more than monuments. Our Little Ones Don't Grow In Shade. It's up to all of us to be the best that we can be and do the right things for our city. Stand Up and don't accept what you know is not right. Our families and children deserve better and I know for a fact we can all do better!!! Please Blog On & tell your family & friends about our blogs!   xox

WELCOME OLDNSPICY!  Hey everyone has to start somewhere and we are the perfect spot.
 
You do make an interesting point about the rules violations.  I have also seen many coaches/asst. coaches who do not take the rules seriously and QC hasn't done anything about it.  As I posted on here I too have had issues with QC on my daughter and even though it was never handled I still allowed my son to play this past summer.  All I ever asked for was an explanation and an apology for my daughter for their lies to her, and never got it.  Life went on, but I promised myself it would never happen again with another one of my children from them....   As for the ATV's I have family that lives right down the street from you and they have said the same thing.  So what is up with our cops NOT wanting to do their jobs?  Oh, that is right, they over worked and under paid or so they say.  If you know who done it I would say file a petition with the court or go and talk to Mr. Abrahms (not sure of the spelling) through the police department!