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Swinging Bunt All-Tournament Team / Shirt Order Re-Opened | | Date: 5/9/2010 | 2010 Bunt All-Tournament Team
The votes are in and we have ourselves an All-Tournament Team. Votes this year were cast by the captains and the tournament committee and here are the 13 winners. | Anthony Repplinger (Team 10)
Brad Boward (Team 6)
Chris Lange (Team 9)
Dusty Miller (Team 11)
Ed Mink (Team 11)
John Washko (Team 2)
Josh Faber (Team 12)
Michael Delesandro (Team 20)
Rick Martin (Team 18)
Savares McCarter (Team 6)
Tony Brucker (Team 3)
Vic Wogen (Team 3) | TOURNAMENT MVP - DUSTIN TOLAND (Team 3)
Congratulations to all the members of this year's All-Tournament Team and this year's Tourney MVP, Dustin Toland. Dustin will be receiving a new Easton Stealth bat for his prize. All other winners will be receiving a Swinging Bunt hat and I will contact them about their prizes.
| Apparel Order
I had many people come up to me last weekend and send me emails this week asking about ordering additional items. We are going to re-open the ordering process as of right now.
If you are wanting to order a hat, pullover, or sweatshirt please visit the Shirt Order page and follow the directions there. | The ordering window will be open for a week. So next Sunday (May 16th) will be your last day to order. In addition, you will be required to pay once you place your order. No merchandise will be ordered if it is not paid for. Please email me if you have any questions.
| Congratulations again to the members of the All-Tournament Team. Stay tuned for an email mid-week with our fund raising total. I should be able to announce something very soon. | Thanks!
Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt Odds and Ends | | Date: 4/28/2010 |
Three days until this thing happens and everything seems to be falling into
place. There are a few odds and ends that I need to make everyone aware of
though.
RULES
Please take the time to visit the
Tourney Info page and
familiarize yourself with some of the rules we use in this tourney. I want to
take this opportunity to highlight a few of them.
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"Going Middle" - this is a charity tournament for fun with no real
substantial prize going to the winning team so let's try to not injure any of
our pitchers. If you seem to be a player that is going through the box
maliciously, you can be removed from the tournament. I haven't had to do this
yet, don't make me start this year.
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Doctored Bats - again, this is for fun and not a place for you to
boost your ego so leave the shaved bats at home. I know some of you have them so
DON'T BRING THEM HERE. Everyone signs a
waiver and on the back there is a provision regarding doctored bats so if you
hurt someone using a doctored bat, I would imagine the legal ramifications would
be more than you want to know. If you're known to be using one, you'll be tossed
out and not allowed to play in any future Bunt events.
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Alcohol - this is a city park next to a school. There is
NO ALCOHOL. And that also includes
those of you who try to sneak it in the complex in other containers. You will
get tossed this year.
Home Runs - 5 and 1-up...home team cannot go 1-up in the bottom of the
7th.
Pitch Height - we have a lot of ASA umpires coming to help this year
so we're going to keep the height at the new ASA 6-10 limit.
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WEATHER
There is a chance of rain in the forecast, but when isn't there a chance of rain
in Illinois in the early spring. These fields are the best around and they
absorb water like crazy so I'm not worried about rain at all this weekend. We do
have a Hotline that will be updated Saturday morning if we are delayed at all.
The number is 309-433-3434 (Category 4). We also have alternate schedules
written up if we're delayed at all so everything is covered.
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SCOREKEEPERS
We are trying something new this year with keeping an Official Book on each
field for every game. We do have some people volunteering to score games but not
enough to cover them all. If you're sitting around watching a game and want to
help out, take the book and score the games for us. You don't have to be perfect
with it. Just keep track of the hits and type (2B, 3B, etc), runs, walks, and
RBIs. We'll take care of the rest.
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We're getting close! If you have any last minute questions, email me and let
me know.
Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt News Update | | Date: 4/21/2010 |
A couple odds and ends...
Tournament Rosters
The draft for this year's tournament is being held this Friday night.
After the draft is completed, I will post the rosters on the
Tournament Rosters
page.
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You should expect them to be up some time Friday night. The draft will take a
couple hours and then it will take me some time to get the rosters typed in so
don't send me emails every 5 minutes asking where they are. I would say 9:30
would be a good estimate.
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Home Run Derby
Here are the details of this year's Home Run Derby. The entry fee will
be $10 with the winner taking home half of the total with the other half being
donated. There will be a signup sheet at the fields on Saturday and you can sign
up then.You don't have to pay until Sunday before you take your turn. The Derby
will take place once a field opens up on Sunday.
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As I mentioned earlier, in order to speed up everything and keep everything
even, we're using the pitching machine again this year. Here is how it will
work. You will get to see one pitch from the batter's box. You can then choose
to make an adjustment to the machine (in, out, up, back, whatever). You will
then get to see one more pitch. Then it is on. Each participant will get seven
pitches. At the end of seven pitches, you will get ONE Moneyball that will count
as 2 if you hit it over. Any tie will be settled by Sudden Death
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Party
Don't forget the party this year will be on Saturday night. The party is at
Hawthorn Suites and starts at 7pm. The way we've drawn up the schedule this
year, all the games on Saturday should be ending around 6pm so that would allow
everyone ample time to migrate over to the party. There will be food, drinks,
and the raffles will all be drawn.
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So far the extended forecast looks real good with rain early in the week and
sunshine to close out the week. That should give us nice green grass and a soft
infield.
See you all next week!
| Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt New Update - Raffle are LIVE and other items | | Date: 4/11/2010 | A few things to cover in this update as we get closer and closer to the 2010 Swinging Bunt. | Raffle
Items As of the time I hit the submit button on this email, the
raffle items for this year are live and on the web page. You can find them on
the Raffle Items web page.
While there appears to be a lot of raffle items on the page, there are still
more that we will be listing in the next week or so. Please make sure you check
it more than once.
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the party on May 1st, this page is where you will do that. You can purchase your
tickets and pay via PayPal. Your tickets will be placed in the correct bucket
prior to the party. You DO NOT need to be present to win. Any
winner that is not at the party can either pick their prize up on Sunday or if
you're a Bunt participant this year, we will ship it to you. All online raffle
ticket sales will end on April 27th.
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Shirt/Hat Orders Tomorrow I am planning on
opening up the order page for hats, t-shirts, hooded sweatshirts, and pullovers.
Instead of a really slick ordering interface, I am just going to do it the old
fashion way and you will use the page to tell me what you want and then I will
send you a PayPal invoice. I could probably get the order form working, but it's
a ton of code changes and I have way too much going on.
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Volunteers This year we are trying
something new with having official scorekeepers at each field during each game.
We have a handful of volunteers that are already in for this, but if anyone else
is interested in doing a game or two, just let me know.
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Umpires For the third year in a row we have
tried and tried to get paid umpires for all the games but have come up empty. We
should have some umpires for the Sunday session but it isn't looking good for
Saturday right now. So we may go with player umpires again this year.The
umpiring duties will be coordinated by the captains so please be flexible when
the captains are asking for people to umpire. I would like it if the captains
never umpired themselves since we need them to keep things rolling
along.
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Home Run Derby Yes, there is a Home Run
Derby this year. The Derby will be on Sunday as the fields open up. In order to
keep things moving along, we will be using the pitching machine again this year.
For the most part, people were pretty happy with the consistent pitching of the
machine so we're using it again. The exact format hasn't been decided yet. There
will be a sheet up on Saturday and you may sign up for the Derby then or on
Sunday morning.
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We're getting real close and I can tell by the amount of email that I
get that people are excited. Please keep checking your email for messages from
me. I have a few more items that I'll need to get out to everyone. Let me know
if you have any questions. | Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt - Benefit Party and Hotel Info | | Date: 2/26/2010 | We finally have some news to announce regarding our Benefit Party and some
discounted hotel information for all of you who are needing hotel rooms. | Benefit Party - This year's benefit party will be held at
Hawthorn Suites in Bloomington. As a reminder, the party that was typically held
on the Friday before the tournament will now be held on the Saturday night (May
1st) bridging the two softball days. More details will be added to the web site as we get them. | Hotel Info - At the same time we were working to get a party
location we also worked with Global Hotel Management here in Bloomington to
secure some discount rates on hotel rooms. Here are the discounted rates and
the numbers you would need to call to get rooms. |
Hawthorn Suites - $70 per night (309-829-8111) |
Holiday Inn Express -$70 per night (309-820-9990) | Country Inn - $70
per night (309-828-7177) |
Ramada - $50 per night (309-825-8317) | All of these hotels are within a half mile of each other so even if you're
not staying in the hotel where the party is being held, you shouldn't have far
to travel. In addition, all hotels have breakfast in the lobby each morning.
There are about 10-15 rooms at each hotel so if you have one you want, you
should get your reservations in now. | REMEMBER, the only way to get these prices is to call the
hotel with the numbers above. All of the numbers except Ramada takes you
directly to the hotel. The Ramada number takes you to the sales manager for GHM
and she will take care of you. You will have to tell them you are part of the
Swinging Bunt event and that should do it. | If you experience any issues, please let me know. | Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt Registration Update | | Date: 2/22/2010 | Day 1 is almost completely in the books and we're setting an unbelievable pace. Just for some context, here are some Day 1 registration totals from the previous three years. | 2007 - 8 | 2008 - 20 | 2009 - 60 | Honestly, I was pretty sure that we would never beat the mark of 60
registrations in one day from last year. I will freely admit that I was
completely wrong with that. As of 9:55 when I am typing this email we are
sitting at... | 111 PAID REGISTRATIONS in just
the very first day! Unreal! | I want to thank everyone who is doing their part to keep this tournament among the best in the country and I especially want to thank those of you who are actively recruiting for this tournament. I've always said that all you have to do is convince someone to play one time and we'll take care of the rest. | Obviously the pace will slow down considerably over the next few weeks but I'm anxious to see when we hit my magical "full field" mark of 220. We're half way there! (Actually, we're well over half way there as soon as the people who didn't complete a payment can get back on and complete their payment. We had 17 of those today....that would have taken us to 128 after Day 1) | Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt News Update | | Date: 2/15/2010 |
We are officially one week away from the opening of registration for the 2010
Swinging Bunt. As a reminder...registration opens next
Monday (February 22nd). I will be opening up the registration early
in the morning, likely around 7am.
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This is the fourth year for the Bunt and we have reached our max number of
participants every single year. This year will be different with the addition of
a second day but we will be capping the pool at some point. Right now I don't
know what that number would be, although I do know it will not be anything under
220 players. Once we get to that number, some decisions will have to be made and
registration could be closed. In other words, I wouldn't wait too long if I were
interested in playing.
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I had a few people ask me about some items so I'm going to try to address
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Home Run Derby - Yes there will be a Home Run Derby this year. We've
had one every year except last year and we will definitely be bringing that back
this year. The timing of the Derby could depend on the total number of teams we
have...meaning it could be Saturday or Sunday. Once we have a better idea of the
number of teams and our schedule, I will announce when the Derby will be held.
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All-Tourney Team - The All-Tournament Team will be back in 2010. There
was some confusion in the voting the last time we had this so I'm going to run
it differently this year. This year, the team of 12 will be chosen based on the
actual stats from the tournament. Each field will have a volunteer scorekeeper
for each game and then the books will be collected at the end of the tournament
and the stats will be calculated and the 12 players will be chosen and will
receive a prize.
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Tournament Format - Really, this is going to ultimately be decided by
the number of teams we have as registration nears closing. As of now, it is
looking more like teams will get 4 Round Robin games on Saturday and then will
be seeded in the Single Elimination Bracket for Sunday. That would be 5
guaranteed games. It is possible for the number of teams to force us to drop the
Round Robin games to 3 on Saturday, which is why we're being safe and just
advertising it as 4 guaranteed games.
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Demo Day - Last year we were able to get a sales rep from Worth to
show up on Friday with a number of Worth bats and let participants try some of
Worth's new bats. I don't know if we will be able to pull that off again this
year but I will try my hardest to be able to get that done.
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As always, if there are any other questions just let me know. | Dusty |
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Swinging Bunt News | | Date: 2/11/2010 |
If you haven't seen or heard by now, the website (www.swingingbunt.org) is back up and running with
the 2010 information. |
Please take some time to go to the site and make sure that you know your User
Name and Password. Once you get logged in, please go in and make sure your email
address and all other information is correct. This information will be used when
registration opens on the 22nd so it is in your best interest to make sure it is
accurate. |
If you cannot remember your User Name or Password you can email me (dusty@swingingbunt.org) and I will send you the information.
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