If the season ended today (July 30 edition)

The tournament pools for the first 3 round robin games would be as follows:

A Pool (League Championship Pool)

A1

#1 Generals
#4 Tomahawks
#5 eForce Fusion
#8 Directors

A2

#2 Code Blue
#3 x86ers
#6 Honey Nut Ichiros
#7 The Foundations

B Pool (Consolation Pool)

B1

#9 FIDO (Currently hold Tie breaker over Build Breakers)
#12 The Wrath
#13 Shooters
#16 RISC Takers

B2

#10 Build Breakers
#11 Hard Hitters
#14 Silly Bats
#15 Trojans

August 25, 2010 Game Schedule

On Wednesday August 25, 2010 at 6:30pm, the following teams will play each other based on the standings through the first 15 games of the season:

1 vs. 2
3 vs. 4
5 vs. 6
7 vs. 8
9 vs. 10
11 vs. 12
13 vs. 14
15 vs. 16

Note:
Home and away designation to be determined (visiting team in original match up will be the home team for the rematch)
Field locations of games to be announced

June 2nd cames that were postponed to be made up on June 30th

All games that were cancelled on June 2nd due to rain will be made up on June 30th (weather permitting).

Check out our league's website for schedule details:

http://www.leaguelineup.com/schedules.asp?sid=78124038&url=coedrecslopitch&divisionid=467306&teamid=99999

Toronto IBM Club News (June 1, 2010)

The Toronto IBM Club invites you to 2 exciting summer events coming very soon!

A pre-screening of the Twilight saga movie, "Eclipse" on Tuesday, June 29th and our annual Summer Family Picnic on Saturday, July 17th!

Ticket sales will start Today on Tuesday, June 1st at 11:00am.

For more details on both events, please log onto our website at http://w3.can.ibm.com/tic

Ticket Information
For the Summer Family Picnic, save $1 on each admission by purchasing your tickets on or before Friday, July 9th!
Purchase your Picnic tickets before Wednesday, June 30th and be entered into a draw for the early bird prizes.

Tickets may be purchased from the following locations:
The Toronto IBM Club Office
The TIC Office is located in the solarium off the employee cafeteria, Module E2, at 3600 Steeles.
Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 2pm


Internal Mail (*Only for Summer Family Picnic event)
Ordering Instructions:
With your request, please include a cheque made payable to "Toronto IBM Club".
On the back of the cheque write TIC Picnic, provide your IBM Serial Number and indicate the number and type of admission and lunch tickets that are required.

Send your request to:
Toronto IBM Club Office
E2/TIC/3600/MKM


TIC Directors
Tickets will be on sale from all TIC Directors.

Cafeteria Sales
Tickets will be on sale outside the cafeterias of most IBM locations in the GTA in the weeks prior to the picnic. The schedule will be posted on the TIC web site shortly.
(Note: Consumers road location will have ticket sales avail in the 2nd floor lunchroom and 3500 by the IBM Security office)

Volunteers Needed (* Only for Summary Family Picnic event)
We need generous people like you to make this event a success! If you would be willing to volunteer
your time, please contact Julia Lao (julialao@ca.ibm.com).

Addition to softball rules - No leading, leaving the base early

This has been added to the section of the rules titled RUNNING:

7. Runners are not permitted to leave the base before a subsequent batter hits the softball.
a) Base runners are not permitted to leave the base they are on until the pitched ball makes contact with the batter’s bat.
b) If a base runner comes off their base prior to the batter making contact with the pitch, the base runner’s team will receive a warning as long as the batter did not put the ball in play at the time the runner left their base early.
c) If the team receiving a warning has a base runner leave their base a second time, then the runner who left the base early will be called out.
d) Any future base runners that leave their base early will also be called out.
e) If a base runner clearly leaves their base prior to contact being made with the bat and the ball is put in play, then play is live and will continue BAU, but the base runner who left early will be declared out upon completion of the batter’s turn at bat (ie. All other runners who did not leave early can still advance and the batter can still attempt to reach base safely unless the auto out for leaving the base early is the 3rd out of the inning).

To Spike in or not to spike in...that is the question

Summary of feedback from team captains re: issue of spiking in bases

5 of the teams in the league support having bases spiked in at all times.
The 8 teams support either the home team deciding whether to spike or not or had no specific preference.
2 teams said that bases should never be spiked in.

As such, I would advise that the home team (responsible for placing the bases down) has the choice to spike in or not spike in the bases.
If the captain of the visiting team has a concern with the spiking in or not spiking of the bases, the two captains should review the issue before the start of the game.
The home team has the final say re: spiking in bases if the two captains can't come to a mutually agreed upon decision.

Note: If a home team does not have bases with spikes (as many teams in the league do) and the visiting team has a set of bases with them that has spikes and they want their bases to be used in that game, the home team can agree to use the visiting team's set of bases for the game.

Boston Pizza Pics - May 5, 2010

After a night of playing in the rain, several teams came back to Boston Pizza for some food and refreshment.