Terms

Last updated: October 7, 2026

These terms cover THE CUT list, THE CUT letter, and nominations submitted on this site.

What THE CUT is

THE CUT is a softball newsletter.

SOFTBALL NEWSLETTER is the descriptor. It does not replace the name.

Weekend Watchlist is the park section: parking, gates, weather, field rules, TD notes, and which park. That section is for parents in the stands at girls travel-fastpitch in Orange County and SoCal, including PGF, USSSA, TCS, and Surf City events.

THE CUT is not a youth team. It is not a tournament. It is not a coaches portal. It is not a hotel booker.

Who we are not

THE CUT is not affiliated with PGF, USSSA, TCS, or Surf City.

THE CUT is not affiliated with the parks or the tournament directors.

We read what they post. We do not speak for them.

Where the facts come from

Park facts in Weekend Watchlist come from public tournament pages, complex pages, city park PDFs, and the National Weather Service.

If a fact is not posted, we write NOT POSTED.

Posted facts can change. Parks change gates. TDs change fields. Weather changes.

We re-check public sources before each send. The day can still change. Follow the park and the TD on site.

The letter

The letter is free for now.

Later we may offer paid products. Prices are not set. A paid product, if it comes, will have its own terms.

The list

We store your email so we can send the letter when it goes out.

If you give a first name on the subscribe form, we may store that too.

On the list form we do not ask for kid names, team names, phone, or home address.

We do not sell the list.

List and nomination records live in Cloudflare KV on our host. Tim and designated operators may open them to run THE CUT.

A working unsubscribe link in the letter is not live yet. Letter send is still on hold. When the letter ships, that link will be the path. Until then, ask us to remove your email through the contact path below once a public contact path is live.

Retention and deletion tools are not built yet. We keep signup and nomination records so we can send and review. When deletion and unsubscribe are built, this section will say how.

Nominations

The Hot bats nominate form is held for review. It is not a publish button.

When you nominate, we store: the player’s first name, age group, optional team or org, why you nominated, your first name, your email, your consent, and a timestamp.

Optional team or org is for nominations only. It is not asked on the subscribe list form.

Nomination records sit in the same Cloudflare KV systems as the list until they are reviewed.

We strip last names on the way in where the form asks for a first name. We do not publish last names without a separate Tim yes.

We do not sell nomination records.

Advice is not a guarantee

Notes on outside food, gates, and cleats are a guide, not a promise.

Parks and TDs set the rules that day. Parents still follow the park and the TD on site.

Weather notes are from public forecasts. They can be wrong. Check the sky and the park.

If we wrote NOT POSTED, that means we did not find it. It does not mean the rule does not exist.

Contact

A public THE CUT inbox is not live on this site yet.

Do not use a personal Gmail address printed here. When a public contact path is yesed, this line will be updated.

Until then, there is no public email address on this page for list or nomination requests.

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