Game Today

12U Team playing with YSSS. I am basically the silent hitting coach after last year's hub-bub. I'm there for YSSS first and foremost. If the other kids want to listen, so be it, you'll be better off. If not...

Where The Hell Have I Been!?

Around.

Just kidding. I am busy. I tweet like a madman. I just say no.

I was in Dallas this week for the J-O-B; flew American Airlines. Only 6.5 hours of delays between the two flights. Sweet.

Boys playing ball. We hit the cages today. Bought some wood bats. Awesome.

Watching Matt Harvey tear it up vs. the Twins right now.

Drinking a beer. I have a new deal. I try new beers whenever I can. I avoid the basic Bud-Coors choices. I'm about to crack open a Shiner Blonde. Ummmm, it's pretty good.

My Fantasy Baseball team is 0-1. I am winning this week. I like my team.

Waiting Over

Ummmm...

Fantasy BB

Buckled down and joined the local fantasy baseball league. Run by the guy who runs the FF league I participate in. It's a keeper league but I got lucky with the availability of a certain TRIPLE CROWN WINNER!!

Here's my highlights:

Miguel Cabrera

Bryce Harper

Yoenis Cespides

Ian Desmond

Manny Machado

Melky Cabrera

Matt Cain

Matt Harvey

Josh Johnson

Jeremy Hellickson

Wade Miley

I have some fill-in-the-blanks guys like Angel Pagan, Gordon Beckham, Ike Davis...some prospects like Mike Olt, Jurrickson Profar, Travis d'Arnaud...and I have to pick up a couple guys on waivers to complete a game day roster.

At least early the strategy is young, strong, fast. Yowza.

A Few Days

I've kind of been "off" since the low-scoring extravaganza last Saturday. No baseball to coach until this weekend (maybe) - the weather round these parts has been rough.

OSSS is playing HS Baseball. They moved him to catcher. He has caught in the past. He will start on JV as a frosh...and depending how things shake he may have a shot of at least some V action. All depends on him I think. He's swinging the bat well, working on switch hitting and learning the advanced part of a tough position. He's up to the task.

YSSS is now a 12U demon...and he made the MS team. He's in 6th grade and the team had zero of my old players (8th graders) come out. The team will be tough as I think there are about 1/2 the roster made up of 6th grade. Big field too. So I will watch him to make sure he doesn't injure himself with the longer throws, etc. I think this is good for him.

Champs

Won the Bergen Travel Basketball league (6th Grade National Guard Division) on Saturday night with a 18-15 onslaught. That score is not a typo.

Four (4) quarters of back and forth bad shooting and sloppy passing. A battle of attrition. We won.

So my boys are CHAMPEENS for a second year in a row. 2X2X!