{"id":486,"date":"2005-08-24T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=486"},"modified":"2005-08-24T09:01:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T17:01:49","slug":"do-isc-world-players-belong-at-asa-c-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Do ISC World Tournament Players Belong at ASA &#8220;C&#8221; Nationals ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read what Fastpitch Forum member Sledgehammer22 and others say on the subject.  Do you agree or disagree?  The &#8216;hammer says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most open hitters I&#8217;ve seen hitting &#8220;C&#8221; are terrible. Their timing is way off. Where they will help teams are the instances when a pitcher is pitching &#8220;C&#8221; that shouldn&#8217;t be. They will eat the hard throwers up. But they won&#8217;t be hitting anyway so no use talking about it. Many of the players are only rated &#8220;A&#8221; because they havn&#8217;t been to any ASA Major events, just ISC. This means that they may drop two levels and hit, but each team can only have 4 upper division players.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you look at the whole picture, the &#8220;C&#8221; nationals should be the best tournament of the year next to the ISC<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh? I thought it was the ISC II, ASA Major, ASA &#8220;A&#8221; and ASA &#8220;B&#8221;, and that the &#8220;C&#8221; Nationals were for entry level teams and old(er) guys like me  \ud83d\ude42   Readers, tell us what you think.   Do ISC World Tournament level players belong at the ASA &#8220;C&#8221; Nationals?  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=159&#038;start=30\">Join the discussion by clicking here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read what Fastpitch Forum member Sledgehammer22 and others say on the subject. Do you agree or disagree? The &#8216;hammer says: &#8220;Most open hitters I&#8217;ve seen hitting &#8220;C&#8221; are terrible. Their timing is way off. Where they will help teams are the instances when a pitcher is pitching &#8220;C&#8221; that shouldn&#8217;t be. They will eat the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}