BBQ Time

Heading to Capt. Joe's for his 50th...having a BBQ.

Joe is awesome.

HYDRATE MAN!

Gotta drink them fluids.

Rainy Thursday

The rainy day cherubs have decided it's a rain day. Lots of wet stuff came down overnight and this AM...with a chance for sun to break later. But right now it's dreary out at 12:15 EDT.

OSSS supposed to have a club team practice tonight, we'll see. His Legion team played the other night, 4-3 loss. I'll reserve my comments until after this Sunday's DH. Stay tuned.

Favorite new show:
LAST WEEK TONIGHT w/ JOHN OLIVER

A Bit Tired

SoulSlam is. Hitting me hard right about....now.

Gotta get some drive to hit the G-Y-M tonite though. I do not, however, feel like going at this very minute.

And after the weekend:

YSSS' 13U team lost playoff game 5-3. Played nice D, was 0-3 at plate. He gets two days off then we work.

OSSS' 16U club team went 3-0 in pool play then lost 4-3 in all the marbles game. He was 3-5 with 4 BB's, 3 runs scored. Nice weekend.

Sunday Funday

Here's the logistics of it all:

Leave at 8AM ro take OSSS to his tourney about 35 miles away, last pool game begins at 10AM. They are 2-0 so far.

BWSS will bring YSSS to field so I can bring him to his playoff game

Leave OSSS' game at 11 to get to farther away field for noon showup. Drive looks like 50 minutes.

YSSS' 13U playoff game at 1PM.

Somehow figure out the easiast way for us all to meet up again at OSSS' championship game at 5:30PM (they have already made that win or lose)

Watch championship game

Go home

Collapse after a beer

An Update of Sorts

So on Monday we got to go back up to Newburgh NY for another day of baseball. It was LONNNNNNGGGGG. Left Casa de SoulSlam at 10AM for a 12:30 game. The game being played when we got there went to extras...so that meant the start of game 1 got pushed back to 1:20. Wow.

OSSS played 1B and batted...went 2-2 with a walk and 2 runs scored. Pretty sweet. And they won that which of course meant they would play another game. That started at 5:45pm. And OSSS didn't see the field in that one, whcih ended in a mercy. So a copule of thoughts:

Why would you pitch a guy in game 2 that pitched 4 innings in game 1. That happened.

Why don't you know the rules about deadball in HS (not MLB rules) and almost get yourself tossed.

So with playing in half the games in first tourney so far, OSSS decided to play Legion as well. I can't blame him, but I'm not a fan of Legion Ball. Maybe it's just me. I played it, but that is definitely my opinion.

You Blew It Coach

Watched the summer team that OSSS plays on. It was first day they have played as a unit; most boys were on this team last year, with OSSS and the Big Man (name withheld to protect me!) being the newcomers I think. The coach is a former All-State Catcher who coaches JV in the inner city I think. He brings a couple of players with him as well. Lots of Spanish being spoken. Which is awesome because the only kids that speak Spanish are the coach and the kids he brings.

So they play game 1, lose 5-2. OSSS played 1B, got two (2) AB's, went 0-2. Looked a little lethargic at plate. He told me on the flight ride up that he was tired. Chalk it up.

Game 2, OSSS not playing. Big Man at 1B. Now, they played together on varsity and the Big Man was never allowed near 1B. He was serviceable. Doesn't have a clue where to back up throws or take cuts however.

Pal of OSSS, we'll call him Sleepy is pitching, and doing great. He's a tough lefty and he will get better as we go. He pitches 5 and leaves with a 5-2 lead. Then the coach made the first of some questionable moves:

Put in some kid he brought who quickly loaded the bases (1B, 2B, HBP), then allowed two runs on 2 consecutive wild pitches. Wow. He was terrible.

With 1 out and #21 spitting the bit, decided to pitch the boy who had caught 13 innings on a hot sunny day. That boggles this mind.

With the starting catcher now pitching, he takes the starting SS and moves him behind plate. BTW, they have a backup catcher who was playing LF which would probably be the better move.

Put a kid he brought at SS who had the range of Stephen Hawking.

So the other (terrible BTW) team scored 8(!) runs to go up 10-5. That was the final.

So I leave you with this...because you played doesn't mean you can coach. WE SHALL SEE!