As I sit here on Saturday night, I am thinking that I will be in Florida on Friday night. Yeah!!!!
News Flash - Nina has decided that she does not want to be left out of all of the fun and will be in Florida from Friday night until Wednesday afternoon!! I guess you could say that basically it was a game time decision!
One more week of work and then hello baseball!!
I think I will pack tomorrow, as I have a very busy week ahead in preparation for the trip and the weeklong celebration for Nina's Birthday on Thursday!! She is the big 50, but you didn't hear that from me!
Monday night we are going out to dinner at a place of her choosing and on Thursday, cake at our house. Friday night we fly to Tampa and will be staying with her sister Susie, who lives in St. Petersburg.
We are both looking forward to seeing you all and renewing our family ties with the Rochester baseball family. It will be like a big family reunion and it has been a long time since we have seen each other!
See you soon in Florida!
Only 6 days until Opening Day!
See you at the ballpark,
Ed
PS: I promise to send out the last version of the parent contact list and the travelling party list, before it gets too late in the week!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
2 weeks until Florida
Only 2 more weeks until Florida - can you believe that it is almost here?
The boys have had a little time off this past week due to midterms - hopefully, they all came through with flying colors!
I am sure that they will be working hard to prepare over the next 2 weeks, the upstate NY weather is not expected to be anything but cold with flurries over the next week, so getting outside in Florida will be very welcome.
I will again email out the parents contact list at the end of this week along with the list of those travelling to Florida, hopefully for the final time, if I have gotten it all right!
I look forward to seeing all those travelling to Florida very soon. It should be a great week with lots of baseball and fun in the sun!
It will be interseting to see how the pitching matches up and who pitches which game(s). It is a lot of baseball in a short time, so pitching is very important. We will need quality starts and good bullpen support throughout the week.
I have been following some of the teams we will face in this season - Emory is currently 4-2, Case is 1-3, Brandeis is 2-3, Washington University will have 6 games scheduled between now and the UAA tournament and Cortland is 1-3 which is a little surprising to me! Cortland is scheduled to play RPI and Clarkson in Florida during the week we are down there. Ithaca travels to California for their spring trip.
So everyone is gearing up for the season.
12 more days until Opening Day in St. Pete, see you there!
See you at the ballpark,
Ed
The boys have had a little time off this past week due to midterms - hopefully, they all came through with flying colors!
I am sure that they will be working hard to prepare over the next 2 weeks, the upstate NY weather is not expected to be anything but cold with flurries over the next week, so getting outside in Florida will be very welcome.
I will again email out the parents contact list at the end of this week along with the list of those travelling to Florida, hopefully for the final time, if I have gotten it all right!
I look forward to seeing all those travelling to Florida very soon. It should be a great week with lots of baseball and fun in the sun!
It will be interseting to see how the pitching matches up and who pitches which game(s). It is a lot of baseball in a short time, so pitching is very important. We will need quality starts and good bullpen support throughout the week.
I have been following some of the teams we will face in this season - Emory is currently 4-2, Case is 1-3, Brandeis is 2-3, Washington University will have 6 games scheduled between now and the UAA tournament and Cortland is 1-3 which is a little surprising to me! Cortland is scheduled to play RPI and Clarkson in Florida during the week we are down there. Ithaca travels to California for their spring trip.
So everyone is gearing up for the season.
12 more days until Opening Day in St. Pete, see you there!
See you at the ballpark,
Ed
Monday, February 16, 2009
Spring trip update
Info about the trip for anyone who may have missed it:
For the weekend series against Skidmore, the team is staying at:
The Best Western Inn
St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
3655 Hospitality Lane at Ulmerton Road
Clearwater, Florida 33762
Saturday and Sunday are 2 games each day, the first game is 7 innings followed by the second game of 9 innings, with Monday being the makeup day in case of rain. This is the regular Liberty League format. These games against Skidmore do count for our League standings. It is easier to get them in on the trip, rather than trying to get them in during March in upstate New York. The games will be played at Miller Huggins Field - 1320 5th St. North - St. Petersburg, FL. If the games are completed on Sunday, the team will depart Monday morning for Altamonte Springs and will practice Monday afternoon. If rain forces the team to play on Monday, they will depart after the conclusion of the games.
The team will then move to the UAA hotel - The Clarion Inn - formerly the Holiday Inn in Altamonte Springs, mention that you are a parent of a UAA tournament player for the $93 rate.
Several parents have stayed where the team stays, while others have found alternate places to stay. Gretchen Brocks found a hotel that shares the parking lot with the Best Western for around $50 on priceline, name your own price.
The UAA Tournament is played in Sanford, and there are a few hotels that are closer to the stadium than where the boys stay - I think in Lake Mary for example. It really depends on how close you want to be to the kids and/or your tolerance for a hotel full of UAA Baseball and Softball teams. The UR girls softball team also plays in their UAA tournament in a complex just up the street from the Clarion Hotel.
For all of the baseball nuts in the group, there is plenty of spring training action for the major leagues - check your favorite team's website for details. We actually watched the UR team play 2 games in Sanford and then drove to Tampa to see the Yankees play that night. Now that was a good day!
In addition - Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, etc are in Orlando. Or you can just relax by the pool or with a good book!
I hope that this helps you plan your Florida trip in support of the team. It looks like a great turnout again this year, I'm looking forward to it!!!
Only 18 days until Opening Day!
See you at the ballpark!
Ed
For the weekend series against Skidmore, the team is staying at:
The Best Western Inn
St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport
3655 Hospitality Lane at Ulmerton Road
Clearwater, Florida 33762
Saturday and Sunday are 2 games each day, the first game is 7 innings followed by the second game of 9 innings, with Monday being the makeup day in case of rain. This is the regular Liberty League format. These games against Skidmore do count for our League standings. It is easier to get them in on the trip, rather than trying to get them in during March in upstate New York. The games will be played at Miller Huggins Field - 1320 5th St. North - St. Petersburg, FL. If the games are completed on Sunday, the team will depart Monday morning for Altamonte Springs and will practice Monday afternoon. If rain forces the team to play on Monday, they will depart after the conclusion of the games.
The team will then move to the UAA hotel - The Clarion Inn - formerly the Holiday Inn in Altamonte Springs, mention that you are a parent of a UAA tournament player for the $93 rate.
Several parents have stayed where the team stays, while others have found alternate places to stay. Gretchen Brocks found a hotel that shares the parking lot with the Best Western for around $50 on priceline, name your own price.
The UAA Tournament is played in Sanford, and there are a few hotels that are closer to the stadium than where the boys stay - I think in Lake Mary for example. It really depends on how close you want to be to the kids and/or your tolerance for a hotel full of UAA Baseball and Softball teams. The UR girls softball team also plays in their UAA tournament in a complex just up the street from the Clarion Hotel.
For all of the baseball nuts in the group, there is plenty of spring training action for the major leagues - check your favorite team's website for details. We actually watched the UR team play 2 games in Sanford and then drove to Tampa to see the Yankees play that night. Now that was a good day!
In addition - Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, etc are in Orlando. Or you can just relax by the pool or with a good book!
I hope that this helps you plan your Florida trip in support of the team. It looks like a great turnout again this year, I'm looking forward to it!!!
Only 18 days until Opening Day!
See you at the ballpark!
Ed
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Time to start heating up the BLOG!!
Ok, its time to get serious about the blog - We've all had a long off-season and with Opening Day in St. Petersburg only 19 days away - time to get this season started!
I am finalizing the parent contact list and the list of those planning on being in Florida. It seems that we will once again have a great group supporting the team in Florida.
I will email the parent travelling list this week and update as changes happen. In light of recent events here in western New York, please travel safely! We have a few players with connections to Buffalo and Clarence and those affected by this terrible tragedy are in our thoughts and prayers.
Let's talk baseball - the team continues to work hard in preparation for the season, but the injury list is growing - shoulders, specifically torn labrums, and a torn ACL will cause the coaching staff to make some adjustments to a lineup and pitching rotation that is not yet set. Some of the underclassmen will have to step up and step into a role not yet defined to help the team be successful this spring.
In talking to several of the people that I speak to from other programs, the general consensus is that the New York Region is down a little from last year due to graduating many fine senior ballplayers. Cortland is still the top team in the region until someone knocks them off. Ithaca and St. John Fisher are down from a year ago, and will have several questions that will need to be answered in their pitching rotations. In the Liberty League, it will still be RPI, again until someone else knocks them off, but they lost a lot to graduation and that leaves the possibilities open. Clarkson has been predicted to have a much better year than last year, and St. Lawrence has always been competitive. Skidmore returns almost everyone from last year and may have the most pitching in the Liberty League. Of course I expect that U of R will have a lot to say about the Liberty League this year. It would be great to win the regular season title, host the tournament again, win the tournament in 2009 and advance to the NCAA New York Regionals.
There has been a lot of talk about RIT this preseason, can they knock off Ithaca in the Empire 8? This season seems to have the most preseason hopes for more teams in more leagues in the New York Region, than I can remember in the past 4 years that I have been following Division 3 Baseball in upstate New York.
What do you all think? How many of you follow other teams to see what they are doing or have done? I admit I am a baseball nut and I recently acquired the MLB Network, which is fantastic!
Emory opened the season this weekend with a split. We will see them at the UAA tournament in Sanford!
Well, that is all for now,
See you at the ballpark,
Ed
I am finalizing the parent contact list and the list of those planning on being in Florida. It seems that we will once again have a great group supporting the team in Florida.
I will email the parent travelling list this week and update as changes happen. In light of recent events here in western New York, please travel safely! We have a few players with connections to Buffalo and Clarence and those affected by this terrible tragedy are in our thoughts and prayers.
Let's talk baseball - the team continues to work hard in preparation for the season, but the injury list is growing - shoulders, specifically torn labrums, and a torn ACL will cause the coaching staff to make some adjustments to a lineup and pitching rotation that is not yet set. Some of the underclassmen will have to step up and step into a role not yet defined to help the team be successful this spring.
In talking to several of the people that I speak to from other programs, the general consensus is that the New York Region is down a little from last year due to graduating many fine senior ballplayers. Cortland is still the top team in the region until someone knocks them off. Ithaca and St. John Fisher are down from a year ago, and will have several questions that will need to be answered in their pitching rotations. In the Liberty League, it will still be RPI, again until someone else knocks them off, but they lost a lot to graduation and that leaves the possibilities open. Clarkson has been predicted to have a much better year than last year, and St. Lawrence has always been competitive. Skidmore returns almost everyone from last year and may have the most pitching in the Liberty League. Of course I expect that U of R will have a lot to say about the Liberty League this year. It would be great to win the regular season title, host the tournament again, win the tournament in 2009 and advance to the NCAA New York Regionals.
There has been a lot of talk about RIT this preseason, can they knock off Ithaca in the Empire 8? This season seems to have the most preseason hopes for more teams in more leagues in the New York Region, than I can remember in the past 4 years that I have been following Division 3 Baseball in upstate New York.
What do you all think? How many of you follow other teams to see what they are doing or have done? I admit I am a baseball nut and I recently acquired the MLB Network, which is fantastic!
Emory opened the season this weekend with a split. We will see them at the UAA tournament in Sanford!
Well, that is all for now,
See you at the ballpark,
Ed
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