Tennessee Softball 2025

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WashedUpDad said:
Just so we are ALL VERY clear, Brandon Pannell is the author and owner of the OrangePark account. Always has been! Trashing his own daughters team, coaches and attempting
To stir the pot on the daily. He has numerous fake accounts on all social media platforms.
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If that is true, just a sorry individual.

I actually don’t have a big issue with a parent venting about the coaches. They are well-paid and should be fair game for criticism by anyone.

HOWEVER, a parent crosses a line when they bash their kids’ teammates.
 
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WVU05UT09 said:
In the middle of the chaos yesterday did anyone notice the comment he left on a tweet (it was either a Texas Tech softball/transfer portal twitter account can't remember) regarding Mia Williams transferring from Florida to Texas Tech. He said to leave her drama/crazy ass (paraphrasing) parents at home.

The irony....
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Yes! He’s unhinged
 
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WVU05UT09 said:
In the middle of the chaos yesterday did anyone notice the comment he left on a tweet (it was either a Texas Tech softball/transfer portal twitter account can't remember) regarding Mia Williams transferring from Florida to Texas Tech. He said to leave her drama/crazy ass (paraphrasing) parents at home.

The irony....
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Williams’ mom has posted some stupidly toxic stuff, too. I know her dad played basketball at UF and in the NBA, but don’t know if he is toxic, too.

Add it all up…and Texas Tech could be a raging dumpster fire by mid-season.
 
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EZE said:
If that is true, just a sorry individual.

I actually don’t have a big issue with a parent venting about the coaches. They are well-paid and should be fair game for criticism by anyone.

HOWEVER, a parent crosses a line when they bash their kids’ teammates.
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They probably bash their kid's teammates because their kid is bashing them. Makes sense.
 
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EZE said:
Williams’ mom has posted some stupidly toxic stuff, too. I know her dad played basketball at UF and in the NBA, but don’t know if he is toxic, too.

Add it all up…and Texas Tech could be a raging dumpster fire by mid-season.
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Jason is/was pretty chill. At tournaments he was always away from the game, at least the ones I saw him at…mom was always heard and in the middle. Nothing too bad, just loud.

In GA for a fall tournament, I want to say when Mia committed in 7th grade. A group of us were off to the side catching up. Jason was dressed like a ninja in his Nike garb off a few feet away teaching Kirsten Fleets little brother the behind the back elbow pass.
 
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Majors said:
Jason is/was pretty chill. At tournaments he was always away from the game, at least the ones I saw him at…mom was always heard and in the middle. Nothing too bad, just loud.

In GA for a fall tournament, I want to say when Mia committed in 7th grade. A group of us were off to the side catching up. Jason was dressed like a ninja in his Nike garb off a few feet away teaching Kirsten Fleets little brother the behind the back elbow pass.
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He went to school with Moss here in Wv. Was always kind of strange dude and I would say a bit of mary jane was used often by both. Their high school sports were unreal then.
 
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PYSCHO said:
He went to school with Moss here in Wv. Was always kind of strange dude and I would say a bit of mary jane was used often by both. Their high school sports were unreal then.
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I would have loved to have seen them play, football and basketball. The Dukes of Hazzard Nike commercial of both is a classic.

If he’s on a podcast, I tune in as his stories and delivery is comedy gold.
 
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Majors said:
I would have loved to have seen them play, football and basketball. The Dukes of Hazzard Nike commercial of both is a classic.

If he’s on a podcast, I tune in as his stories and delivery is comedy good.
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football won state basketball won state baseball runners up
had a first rd pick for the brewers played for them and a draft pick for the bears(notre dame) played for them. They absolutely toyed with any team in any sport.
Randy Moss could have played pro in any of those sports and been all star quality.
 
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EZE said:
I don’t know, but the Murray State pitch appeared to be inside and off the plate to me. Probably wasn’t going to matter, but I think that was a bad call.
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I'm wondering about the softball rule. A strike is a ball of you lean into it?
 
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PYSCHO said:
football won state basketball won state baseball runners up
had a first rd pick for the brewers played for them and a draft pick for the bears(notre dame) played for them. They absolutely toyed with any team in any sport.
Randy Moss could have played pro in any of those sports and been all star quality.
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Unfortunate to see the slide of DuPont/East Bank now Riverside athletics. Absolute powerhouses back in the day. Symbolic of the entire Kanawha Valley.
 
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37620VOL said:
I'm wondering about the softball rule. A strike is a ball of you lean into it?
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The rule is if the pitch would have been ruled a ball, but the batter leaned into it, the batter is not awarded 1st base. Its recorded as a ball in the count. If this happens to be ball 4, then it's recorded as a walk.

If the batter leans into a pitch that would have been declared a strike, the batter is not awarded 1st base and a strike is recorded (dead ball situation). In baseball you have to try to avoid being hit, in softball you do not. I think Brian just worded it weird. I think he was trying to say softball cleared up the gray area of whether the batter made an attempt to get out of the way of the pitch.

Both are dead ball situations obviously. I agree with your take on the Arkansas-Murray State game. Horrible call. It was entirely within the box and the batter just braced himself for impact. At worst, a ball should have been called and the at-bat continues.
 
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jp1 said:
.....If the batter leans into a pitch that would have been declared a strike, the batter is not awarded 1st base and a strike is recorded (dead ball situation)......
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Had the ump correctly applied that rule in the 1st inning against Alabama 2 supers ago, we might have gone to 3 straight WCWS.
 
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jp1 said:
The rule is if the pitch would have been ruled a ball, but the batter leaned into it, the batter is not awarded 1st base. Its recorded as a ball in the count. If this happens to be ball 4, then it's recorded as a walk.

If the batter leans into a pitch that would have been declared a strike, the batter is not awarded 1st base and a strike is recorded (dead ball situation). In baseball you have to try to avoid being hit, in softball you do not. I think Brian just worded it weird. I think he was trying to say softball cleared up the gray area of whether the batter made an attempt to get out of the way of the pitch.

Both are dead ball situations obviously. I agree with your take on the Arkansas-Murray State game. Horrible call. It was entirely within the box and the batter just braced himself for impact. At worst, a ball should have been called and the at-bat continues.
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That’s the way I saw that too.

It was a bad curve ball that got away from the pitcher inside. It looked like it froze the batter for long enough to get hit on the elbow.

I thought it was a bad call.

Add that to that UCLA replay insanity against us, and the NCAA appears to be struggling with replays.
 
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jp1 said:
The rule is if the pitch would have been ruled a ball, but the batter leaned into it, the batter is not awarded 1st base. Its recorded as a ball in the count. If this happens to be ball 4, then it's recorded as a walk.

If the batter leans into a pitch that would have been declared a strike, the batter is not awarded 1st base and a strike is recorded (dead ball situation). In baseball you have to try to avoid being hit, in softball you do not. I think Brian just worded it weird. I think he was trying to say softball cleared up the gray area of whether the batter made an attempt to get out of the way of the pitch.

Both are dead ball situations obviously. I agree with your take on the Arkansas-Murray State game. Horrible call. It was entirely within the box and the batter just braced himself for impact. At worst, a ball should have been called and the at-bat continues.
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Well, that just makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
 
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