Summer Time Shift

As we turn to June, Game Time is now at 9am. Gear arrives for us to prep the field and warmup shortly after 8am. Be signed in no later than 8:45am, in order to make evenly matched teams and have the First Pitch on time!

Monday: Game On!

We were at 16. We lost Charlie (replacement fridge delivery in the morning). Brian S. is 80% sure, so that put us at 15.8 players. Old friend Pete Soens will join us, making for 16.8 players. Mike T. has volunteered to play for both sides. I am guessing that we could pick up a couple of commitment-phobic players and/or some players walking by the field. So let's play ball!

No Game Sunday, But Monday ...?

After seeing some 6pm forecasts and the current temperature, Sunday's game is off.

Confirmations for Monday put us at 16, as of 9am on Sunday. Email if you want to play and have not already. A decision will be made based on responses (the weather looks great) and announced here around mid-afternoon on Sunday.

"In the Clubhouse"

With a roster that can swell to 100 by the end of the season and never enough time at the field to BS with everyone, here's a resource to spread the word, our own "community" page. There's a page link on the right side of the blog, under the weather widget.

Sell your house, Sox tickets, homemade chili. Find a carpool to The Game. Network to find a new job or employee.

Get word out in several different ways:
- email and it will be added to the main body of the page
- "comment" by signing in via the many options
- "comment" anonymously ... but be sure to either write who you are or send an email so that it be approved for publishing

 Whatchagot?

Covering First

Everyone on the mailing list ought to have received the Intro and schedule this week. It's the one to save and forward to anyone who you're inviting to the game. If you didn't get it, get in touch!

Note that this Sunday is the last game before we have a "road" game on Memorial Day weekend. If it's going to rain that Sunday, we'll likely play on Memorial Day Monday. And after that, games shift to 9am for June, July, and August.

A shame that there's only about 6 more months of games! For this Sunday, the forecast looks great and some old familiar faces are expected to make it out for the first time. Even if you need no warmups or BP, be signed in no later than 9:15!

The Lost and Found is Open!

As a permanent page on the right side of the blog, "The Lost and Found" will list gear left behind at the field by a player (which, amazingly, happens almost every week. Wassupwithat?)

Items not claimed in a timely manner will be donated or absorbed into the game's gear. To ensure that the gear finds it's way back to the rightful owner, descriptions will be non-specific, so that you will have to give a specific detail to lay claim to the item.

No Game

Still not clear of the back edge of the storm front, there's a good possibility of more rain or even lightning. That potential will also keep enough players in bed so that getting 18 players would be unlikely. 6 more hours and we would have made it.

As much a Mom would have liked us exercising, Mother Nature has different plans. So go take Mom out for brunch and play ball next week!

Mother's Day , 7:30pm update

As always, in every game, Mom's play for free!

As of now, the field looks great! Afternoon rain served us doubly well by keeping today's games off of "our" field while tightening up the dusty dirt. There are no puddles at all. Unless the field gets flooded overnight by sporadic passing downpours, it looks like Mother Nature will be kind to us for game time. A cancellation posting would go up around 7:30am.

Be fair to those who show up on time to groom the field, lay bases, initiate BP, and set up evenly split teams. Be signed in 15 minutes before game time - by 9:15. Last week, 8 of 22 came after 9:15. As teams were being announced just before 9:30 and 8 were making plans to fill in the 9th for the opposing 8, there were 6 more players showing up by First Pitch.

The start of the game is delayed when players come late and everyone's certainly always in a rush to leave the field. Is that how yer Mom raised you?