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Going To The Finals

Monday night. 8:15PM. Semi-finals for my 5th Grade Travel Team.

When all was said and done, two OT's later, we were the victors in a 43-41 game.

Easily the best game I have ever seen or coached at the youth level.

On to the finals on 3/31!!!

Scrimmage Saturday

Getting ready for the season, so set up some scrimmages for my teams to tune up. There are pretty much three ways you can approach:
1. Find a team that you play during season and play them. 2. Find some powder-puff you can beat up on. 3. Play anybody that you can, even if it's some club team that might crush you.

I don't like #1 or #2, so I pretty much stick with finding anybody and use it as a learning experience.

13U played at noon. I have a roster of 11. Right now I have a RF in a sling with a fractured arm. And during the week I also got a CF 9and leadoff hitter) in a brace for tendon tears in his wrist. Then at 6PM on Friday I got a text that I have a Catcher with a 101 fever. So I arrive at the field knowing I will play 8. And one of those is a brand new fresh rook...so in reality I have 7.

We take the field and my #1 Pitcher is having trouble. Two errors in my infield don't help. Neither do the three BB e gives up. Plan was to let him go 2-3 innings. He finished 1 with a pitch count of 51. And 5 runs on board.

We get three back in bottom of inning. Then I put in another pitcher. He gives up a walk, we get another E-5 and a BB and 3 runs are across. At 22 pitches, he tells us he has an issue with arm...pitching change (I start thinking we might only be able to play 4 innings at this rate). OSSS comes in, throws 7 pitches and we are out of inning on an F8 and tagout DP on a pickle on the kid who tagged to go home.

After that, we played baseball. Didn't score too much but we only gave up a couple more runs. OSSS went on to pitch another couple of innings...which we desperately needed. Final error count - 7. E-4 twice, E-6 twice and E-5 three times. That doesn't include my SS watching a ball drop right in front of him that he thought the pitcher should field.

In 11U action - we got trampled. Nuff said.

Playoff Win!

My 5th grade travel team won their Rd 1 playoff game last night. Final was 53-47. Kept trying to give it back. Other team wouldn't take it.

Z.A.

Zombie Apocolypse. Yowza.

Watch the Walking Dead? You should. It is the best show on TV. And now a new twist.

No, not the one that happened when Rick knifed Shane (in self-defense)...the fact that the dead is now coming back as zombies without a bite. Is this what the CDC guy told Rick at the end of last season? So it's just like the movies...we all turn when we die.

That's a bummer.

Madness of Spring

We got 60+ degrees in Northern J...and a forecast that says "spring is here early, soldier".

Just got the first of preliminary spring league schedules this afternoon. My A-type persona is already shooting the e-mails to the lesser beings to confirm games. Lot's of "don't have field schedule yet" replies. Not what SoulSlam wants to hear, playa!

Program is now 4 deep on teams. Veteran 14U and 13U teams on 60/90 field, 11U playing on 50/70 this season (and struggling right now), and a 9U team that has barely practiced and will undoubtedly get hit hard in the proverbial face when games begin. Hope they don't have a glass jaw.

So I stare at me inbox for signs of life from surrounding towns...

WHAT?

There was a band in the 70's and early 80's called Angel. They had a song called "Bad Luck". Had a line that went:
"if it wasn't for real bad luck, I'd have no luck at all".

Sounds like the New York Mets.

Now we hear that Ike Davis, might have Valley fever.

I am waiting for the pitching staff to come down with typhoid next.

Mr. Met leaving the hospital ward, errr, CitiField clubhouse.