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1. 3 things you and your team enjoyed about the season.
   • Liked being on the same field, liked the number of games, organized, teams we played were pretty fun, laid back and good about rules, having more teams this year, having food at the games and playing most games in Everett.
2. Feedback about the start, middle and end of the season
   • Start earlier to get teams to commit to avoid a last-minute drop out and whole in the schedule.
   • We talked about liking the single header games in the early season but would like them to count in the standings. We also talked about an early season Jamboree type tournament to have teams get some early season practice and get used to knowing the league.
   • More options to make up rained out games. Maybe add Monday games in July? Or Wednesday’s?
   • At the end of season, the tournament needs to be organized earlier.
3. Fields
   • Henry M Jackson Park:
     • Great location
     • Terrible playing surface – maybe we can ask the city to do some work on them or maybe we have a workday out there?
   • Marysville Pilchuck:
     • Brutal location to get to; we are all based in the Snohomish area and at the time games start – it hurts
     • Decent playing surface
     • While we enjoyed no outfield fence at one of the fields, it seems other teams did not prefer that – we were fine with it though
       
   • We talked about if we do not add some sort of cones or fence to the outfield of the Marysville fields the fields will be too uneven.
4. Anticipate bringing a team again next year?
   • Seems that all teams plan to come back, New Life thinks they will have another team for a total of 4, LifePoint thinks they will have 2, a Snohomish team. (14)
5. Write down rules that need clarification or to be changed.
   • Close calls at home base, coaches need to coach their players to stay out of the way of the base if they do not have the ball
   • The rule about 2nd base down or out is if the play is close, you are to slide or run out of the way, or you are out, so if you interfere with a double play by not getting out of the way you are out at second and the runner is out at 1st.
   • Chopping – the heart of the rule is a chopping motion as a way of bunting the ball.
   • We talked about continuing to self-umpiring, adding the 1st base umpire but the home bast umpire made the final call.
   • Talked about making the mats bigger. What do you think?
   • A foul ball that goes over the batter’s head and is caught by the catcher is an out, foul ball that does not go over the batter’s head is a strike.
6. What are you willing to help with?
   • Josh maybe as a commissioner
7. Feedback on the tournament
   • 1) bracket – like pool play better, maybe start the final week and have less teams play the final day.
   • 2) location – look at Kasch park or field in Mt Vernon
     3) food – good
     4) finish – too much for one day
8. What else?
   • Specifically adding no switching batting left/right-handed midway through an at bat to the rules
   • Field 4 @ Marysville cannot see at all at sunset
   • Possible to use 3rd field for makeup games (although this contradicts not using field 4)
   • Possible different field Philip Johnson, maybe too short, would need to check size.
   • Suggested to have same 3 people from each team ump games so consistent. Also have umps call flat balls as balls
   • At the start of each game maybe remind everyone that umps are the ones making the calls and resist arguing with them.
   • We also talked about an hour & 15-minute time limit for the second game
   • Recommendation for the league to use Game Changer and all coaches to use Game Changer.
   • Tournament – white board with the brackets, coaches meeting before the games start (rules, what the day looks like, etc)
   • Teams that have a bye before lunch – set up lunch, teams that have a bye after lunch, clean up lunch. Suggested that teams have a break between every two games?

If you have any other comments, feel free to reach out to comms@nccsfl.org