2010 Could be a bad year for softball. With more associations then ever before which tournaments will teams play? Will directors be forced to pull the trump cards and tell teams if they don't play they can't get in the end of the year biggies? Will teams plan anymore boycotts? If we have three tournaments in one weekend will any of them have more then 5 teams. We have watched the decline of softball in Las Vegas over the past ten years; to a point where most tournaments in 2009 were considered big if they had 10 teams. Can you blame the teams, most of them just want to play softball. 

Now with the economy as bad as it is will the teams be able to play as much as they were. Are teams going to want to pay to play in a park where you can't bring in even water? Is the idea of replica fields enough to draw teams to Vegas when now most of the Southwestern States have their own replica fields. Will tournaments in Las Vegas now be as expensive as California?

I spent what a lot of people could consider a lifetime in softball. I spent the time I did for the love of the game. Now I see such turmoil in a sport that was meant to be for leisure that it is rarely fun anymore. How can it be, when players are getting hurt by equipment that is modified to gain speed through the infield? When teams justify using that equipment because other teams do. What will be the future of the game. Will Directors in the future have to invest in bats and not allow any that are not supplied by the Association. How many players will get hurt bad before they do something like that. Did you ever notice that a few, no talent, people ruin it for everyone? Well we could go to a Brady type rule where you can not hit at or near a pitcher or you are out. Oh that is right some associations are already doing that. 

No one knows for sure what the future will be I just know that it will be a year to remember and watch. No matter what happens softball will be softball and those that love the game will play it. Let's hope this isn't another sport that comes to an end because of a few.