Unrelenting

The weather. When it is beautiful out, you probably take it for granted. But when it rains and rains and you have a baseball team or two you need to whip into shape, you just look out the window, turn on the weather, check every local weather site known to man hoping that their is a break somewhere in our collective future. No dice today apparently.

So anyhoo, today is "Championship Saturday" for recreation-style hoops in my town, so we've got consolation and championship games all day. My 2nd/3rd grade boys team got beat in the play-in (5 team league) so I am off. I run the whole shebang, so I have to make my way over late this afternoon in an official capacity, hand out the medals and trophies, etc. Remember this...somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose. Words to live by.

DST tonight. Get your rest.

And Turned Again!

AAARRRGGGGHHH!

We get a few days of 50+ degrees, snow all gone, everything drying out and now the forecast for this weekend. Rain. Lots and lots of rain.

Looked at the weather map and we are on the edge of the heaviest part...in my neck of the woods you color that "not good", since we are prone to flooding anyway. Time to batten down the hatches.

Wet.

The Weather Has Turned

Nice. Like high 50's nice. Snow is melting, I'm pumping water from the top of my pool cover (waiting for that oasis of fun to open!).

Daylight savings this weekend means baseball practice during the week next week. All is right again.

God Loves Baseball.

OUTSIDE!

BASEBALL PRACTICE TODAY!

Only an hour for each level, but we are out in the air and throwing the old horsehide. Still some remnants of winter on the ground, but it's melting away and we have found a patch of grass to congregate.

Three weeks until first game. A lot to work on.

Known and Admitted

I have an ongoing dialogue at my place of employment with a Yankee fan that likes to point out the shortcomings of the NY Mets. Now he's on the "Reyes as HGH user" bandwagon.

So I made a cartoon. Enjoy.

In Like A Lion

Hopefully a lion that is old and ready to keel over. March I mean.

Watched the forecast and apparently the northern part of Jersey (aka the best part) will avoid another dumping of snow. Something to be thankful for. Coupled with some warm weather (in the 50s!) rolling in this weekend, we may actually be able to begin playing some baseball outside. Season starts in 26 days!

So where do you start. I'm sure my assistant coaches are sick of my e-mails by now; but I gotta tell ya: when you have reached the tender age of 11 and can't catch and throw a baseball, you may want to pick up another sport. My team is staying at 46/60, so I think we'll have a pretty good team. But there's that little gnawing inside my brain that leaves me with some reasonable doubt. But that's why you play the games.

Trivia

Q: Who is the only player to ever hit two Grand Slams in one inning?
A: Fernando Tatis, St. Louis Cardinals on April 23, 1999 at Dodgers Stadium. (By the way, prior to that game he had exactly 0 grand salamis)

But this trivia question has a second part:

Q: Who is the pitcher who gave them up?
A: Chan Ho Park (new Yankee reliever) - two in one inning. Career highlight for sure. Funny, it was not the first time that ever happended, but you have to go back to 1890 for the first guy. Mr. Park pitched 2 2/3 that day, gave up 6 earned runs, 11 total. That's called putting your team in a hole.

Now he's a Yankee. Watch out Joba.