Doc

Sorry to hear the news story about Doc Gooden's brush with the law in Franklin lakes yesterday. Check deadspin for story...

Son of SoulSlam attended a baseball clinic featuring Doc last year in October. He was great with the kids (a little quiet), but signed just about everything under the sun. I always will have a soft spot in my Mets colored heart for him. The pic at the top is from that day (P.S. - I'm not one of those jabronis in the background)

Hope he can turn it around (again).

Busy Time

Work is frantic, have our big meeting of the year in a couple of weeks...

Baseball is coming along. Boys are working hard.

Out for now. Just a quick update.

Early Season

So we scrimmaged another 11U team yesterday...

So how'd we do?

Pitching was very good. I used 5 boys for 7 innings. And for the first time out, they pitched well.

Defense was good. Couple of errors hurt. Some tentative throws didn't help either.

Hitting was pitiful. We couldn't hit our way out of a wet paper bag. So we work on hitting a lot this week. Bet.

I wasn't disappointed though. I saw some ballplayers in navy blue. All that matters.

And I scheduled a tough practice schedule this week. Let's see who wants to play.

Species

So the weather has been unbelievable the last couple of days here in North J. Into the 70's lots of sunshine. Couldn't ask for more.

So I was at the ballfields last night for a couple of practices and notices a new species of insect:

The Winter Mosquito!

Now we always got mosquitos. Usually appear in May and run through October. But I have never seen a mosquito in winter (even though it was really the last day of winter).

So I gave my blood to this poor little fellow who will undoubtedly be dead once the cooler spring temps hit beginning Monday.

In any case, baseball games today. Yes.

Lots 'O' Baseball On Tap!

Practices and scrimmages all weekend. Nice.

Time to get serious. Check back tomorrow to see how we did.

Happy St. Paddy's!!!!

HAVE ONE WITH MY PAL LUCKY!!!

Drive Time

Storm came and gone. Rough time here in North J.

Flooding everywhere near me. I live about 3.5m from my place of happy employment and it took me an hour 10 to get in and about an hour five to get home. Not used to that, don't know how you people do it. Hopefully tomorrow is a little better. My hopes are not high.


Water water everywhere...