High School Season

Hi, LTDad. No, 2B plays for PK Yonge. The catcher for GHS is on his travel team, though. Good luck today!

I should say the player that I assume will be the starting catcher for GHS plays for my son's travel team. It's preseason so who knows. Anyway, it's a beautiful day for baseball in Gainesville!

Thanks! Good luck to you as well! It is nice to finally get this season kicked off!

They are forecasting temps in the 40s next week. MELT SNOW!!! TwoTex Jr. is throwing into a net in the garage. Three and a half weeks until HS workouts start. We are all antsy.

Good luck to those already underway.

Won 6-3 last night. Defense looked pretty tight, hitting was timely, and 2B started right where he left off last year.

The best part was a play at the plate. 2B was on 3rd. Our hitter flew out to center, 2B headed for home. CF threw a bullet to the catcher. The ball gets there before 2B, but as the catcher bent down to catch it, 2B sort of somersaulted over him and landed on his feet, right on home plate! Safe!

It's going to be a fun season. I'm hoping the snow melts for everyone very soon!

2BMom,

Congrats on the win! Plays like that are when you really regret leaving the camcorder at the house!

We won our opener 6-2. LTSon started and got the win. Looking forward to a fun season!

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Plays like that are when you really regret leaving the camcorder at the house!

Tell me about it!
Congrats on your win also!

Sophomore son was released by his doctors after tearing his ACL for the last JV game of last season. The varsity coached watched and put him on the varsity playoff roster the next day. Our first day of tryouts is 2-28. The coach ordered new varsity uniforms last week and asked him what number he wanted. He gave him his bullpen schedule last night and told him to get ready he has opening day. I guess he made it, or rather will make it.

First scrimmage game of the 2011 season today! Wooo Hoooo! Sunny, 50's, just perfect!

Season starts in 10 days. Son named starting SS. Life is good.

It's Opening Day in Florida!

In KY practice can officially start tomorrow on the 15th. We are excited for that!

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Originally posted by WinBuc44:
First scrimmage game of the 2011 season today! Wooo Hoooo! Sunny, 50's, just perfect!

First scrimmage was everything I expected it would be! Defensive errors / defensive web gems. Struggling pitching / dominating pitching. Happy coaches / snarling coaches. Bonehead base running / aggressive base stealing. Blown pick offs / ring em up pick offs. I loved every moment of it!

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Ahhh...life in South Cackalacky could not be better! Enjoy!



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Home opener last night. The team looks great!

--paragraph deleted--kind of embarrassing to come across as that grumpy!

We won 16-1 in four innings. It was painful to watch. I played every upbeat song I could dig up between innings, I even dug out YMCA! The mood stayed pretty light, even among the fans of the opposing team.

My one guilty pleasure... our non-starters were in on defense, our pitcher was getting tired. Bases loaded, two outs in the top of the 4th. The mercy rule is 15 after 4. Coach calls 2B in to pitch to the next batter. "Strike this guy out and let's all go home." During his warm-up, I played Voodoo Chile Blues. 3 pitches. Game over.

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Originally posted by 2Bmom:
Home opener last night. The team looks great!

--paragraph deleted--kind of embarrassing to come across as that grumpy!

We won 16-1 in four innings. It was painful to watch. I played every upbeat song I could dig up between innings, I even dug out YMCA! The mood stayed pretty light, even among the fans of the opposing team.

My one guilty pleasure... our non-starters were in on defense, our pitcher was getting tired. Bases loaded, two outs in the top of the 4th. The mercy rule is 15 after 4. Coach calls 2B in to pitch to the next batter. "Strike this guy out and let's all go home." During his warm-up, I played Voodoo Chile Blues. 3 pitches. Game over.

Very funny - loved that post

What made you grumpy btw?

Oh, okay...

I was getting ready for the game. Some announcers don't take it seriously, but I do. I like to pronounce everyone's names correctly, have all the numbers and positions, coaches names, umpires names, all that stuff put into my script so that I can give our lineup my usual WWE flair! Most importantly I like to have just the right music playing and the walk-up songs lined up on the brand new speakers that 2Bdad and I donated this year! It was the first game, so I was a little nervous and wanted everything to be perfect.

Infield-outfield had already started, and I was hurrying back to the press box with the visiting lineup in my hand. One of the moms on the opposing team attempted to stop me to see the lineup so that she could see whether her son was starting. Sheesh. I told her she'd have to wait!

That made me grumpy.

But I wasn't grumpy for long.

Our first game is in two weeks. We just got our winter sports athletes released to us Saturday. They make up almost half of the V and JV teams. We have had amazing weather for the last 6 weeks or so - now it is forcast to rain for most of the next two weeks. No indoor facility to practice in.

2bmom - on a brighter note, we're supposed to have music for the first time this year.

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Oh, okay...

I was getting ready for the game. Some announcers don't take it seriously, but I do. I like to pronounce everyone's names correctly, have all the numbers and positions, coaches names, umpires names, all that stuff put into my script so that I can give our lineup my usual WWE flair! Most importantly I like to have just the right music playing and the walk-up songs lined up
I was a little nervous and wanted everything to be perfect.
One of the moms on the opposing team attempted to stop me to see the lineup so that she could see whether her son was starting. Sheesh. I told her she'd have to wait!

I wonder where 2B Jr gets that fiery competitive spirit that drives him to excel?

You guys are the best.
cabbagedad, if you need a playlist or an example of a script, send me a PM and I'll be glad to share what I use.

My sons first game of the season and home opener will be on March 4th. My son is a 2013 player and is on varsity.

My wife passed away in October from cancer and the team will be honoring her with a moment of silence before the game and I will be throwing out the first pitch. The team will be wearing my wifes initials on their sleeve the entire season. The team and boosters have been awesome and I am happy for my son to feel the love from the team in this difficult time. I am ready for the season to start to help my son refocus.

Good luck to all.

vladfan, I'm so very sorry for your loss.

I hope the baseball season brings joy to you and your son. Best of luck to him!

vladfan,

I am so sorry to hear about your loss.I pray for you and your son to have a great HS season.Loss is tough.I commend you both for moving forward.God Bless your family.

Vladfan,

I'm sincerely sorry to hear about your wife's passing. It's nice that the team will honor her this season. Hopefully baseball will help bring a little bit of normalcy to your family's life over the next few months. Best of luck to your son this season!

Best wishes for you and your son this season, vladfan.

vladfan,
My two sons lost their mother to cancer 6 years ago to a long battle with cancer. The town and their teammates were a great support system for them at such a young age. By keeping them active with travel ball and giving them structure in practicing, they learned to not dwell on their loss but focus on positives that would make their mother proud. I believe had they not had a goal for becoming good players and a path toward playing in college, they might have had alot more problems with their free time. God bless you and your family and best of luck with your son's upcoming season and baseball future.

Vladfan,

I too am sorry for your loss and add my prayer that you and your son can persevere in remembering her in your memories.

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Vladfan,

I too am sorry for your loss and add my prayer that you and your son can persevere in remembering her in your memories.

I too am sorry for vladfan's and sonofe13's loss

On a positive note, congrats to Adam on his homerun last week Backstop-17

Thanks CD. Line drive hitting with these BBCOR bats is the way to go and hopefully every now and then one will get launched.

I hope to get down to see Tyler in March, and get a look at the new Rays bash brothers Damon and Ramirez...

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Rays bash brothers Damon and Ramirez...

...ick... They'll always be Red Sox to this Rays fan.

Double header on Saturday! High is supposed to be 77.

First JV game was last weekend. Tied 5-5 after 8 innings. Boys played well, with no errors in the field. Would have won if a few of our guys would have thrown strikes. Oh well, that is to be expected for JV this early in the season. Doubleheader sked for this saturday with 80 degree temps expected (Just wanted to rub that in a bit for the folks up north...sorry :-)

On the other hand, Varsity is off to a great start at 3-0. Won their pool in the Saladino Tournament and will be moving on to bracket play later this spring. Things are looking good for the program so far!

FSU2Omaha...
Go Gators!

Some highlights from our weekend double header. We swept a very good team, and it was fun. Game 1 was close. No commentary needed on this clip.
Game 1

In game 2, they ran out of pitching. We were up 13-3 and the dugout was pretty loose. 2B's nickname is Jubs. About 6 seconds in, you can hear put it in the jubadub tub! and I can't stop laughing, especially with the other sound effects.

I hope all of you have this much fun this season!

Our game was exciting last night! Tied 1-1 at the end of regulation. We won on a walkoff in the bottom of the 9th. A good team win and confidence builder.

Great videos 2Bmom. 13LHPmom threw some BP to 13LHP. Our season starts next week. Can't wait. Wish we had your weather!

Three games this week! We're headed out to an away game tonight, then another away game Thursday and a home game Friday against the team that we beat for the District championship last year. What a week!

The best part about away games west of G'ville....stopping at Newberry's Backyard BBQ for dinner on the way! Yum yum yum.

Baseball America Rankings

http://www.baseballamerica.com...gs/2011/2611308.html

Checking in at #20 to start the year.

Son's team is #34. We are still "pre-season" till March 12.

Wow, that's impressive MarlinsMS and LHPmom! Good luck this season!

We won last nigh 17-0. Off today, then district games Thursday and Friday.

Well, we finally played our 1st regular season game last night. Won 9-6 in 8 innings on a walk off 3 run HR by our stud SS who is going to Clemson.

Bballson got the start. Went 5 innings, 9 K's, 1BB, 2HBP, 4 hits, 2 runs. Left with a 4-2 lead, but didn't get the win. Not a bad start to the season. As usual, the two runs scored were one of the HBP and the BB. The HBP that scored was actually a pretty cheap HBP. He threw a CB at the batter, the batter ducked his head right into the strike zone to get out of the way and the pitch broke in and hit him in the head. Should have been a strike.

Oh well. It was a pretty exciting end. Walk offs are always fun. Play again Friday and Saturday.

9 Ks! Wow - nice work by bballson!