Is there a baseball field under this snow?

Julie,

I'm in the Phoenx area and we don't have any snow. In the 25 years I've lived here, I've seen snow twice. Once with a few flurries around '89 and again last year when we actually had snow on the ground for a few minutes. We all took pictures of it with our phones, but it looked too much like hail to be believable.

My son's college practice in Tucson was "snowed out" this afternoon, which is likely a first but up here in Phoenix, we're staying above the 40F mark.

My thoughts are with those back in the northeast, especially my native NH. I hear 2 1/2 feet from NEMO was par with gale force winds, reminding me of the storm of '78. Back then we named them by year, not by Disney characters.

My son is at a DII JUCO (PHCC in Martinsville, VA).  They've been practicing since early January and the first games (doubleheader) were this past Sunday.  They split - won game 1 2-0 and lost game 2 4-2.  To my surprise, my son (a freshman position player 1B) actually played.  He was the DH in game one - was 0-1 with a walk, sac fly and a RBI.  Game 2 he started at 1B and went 1-3 at the plate.

Our HS has tryouts starting next Monday with the first game in early March.  Not much snow here (east central VA) this winter unlike my son's sophomore HS year where they had to have tryouts in the parking lot due to 10" snow on the field.

First game for my son, d3, is this saturday. Today its supposed to be in the 50's, but predicting snow for opening day. Even though its probably going to be miserable if they play, I cant wait!

My son plays 13u AAA travel ball, we've been inside now 2-3x per week since November.  It's getting old but we have less than a month now before heading to our first spring tournament in ATL. 

Pitching batting practice has gotten pretty nerve wracking, I wish I had a nickle for every near miss rocket that has flown past me just missing me or hitting the upright of the L screen. 

March can't come fast enough!!

It's the 30th of March and my son's first HS game is scheduled for Thursday. No way are they going to get that game in.  I figure 2-3 weeks before the fields will be playable.

Snow melted quickly today in the Minneapolis area at 50 degrees! I'm seeing lots of brownish grass out there.

Monday is the Twins' home opener and it sounds like Target Field is in good shape, but it will be very cold for players and fans (around the freezing mark).  Vance Worley, son of the HS Baseball Web's DB2BMom, will take the mound against Justin Verlander for opening day.  Best wishes to Vance and the Twins!!

Julie

Well, it's the April 19th and it looks like the first three weeks of the season will be canceled.  Conference coaches got together to reschedule the rest of the season, looks like they may only be able to get in 16 games before playoffs. 

Better late than never.  Yesterday was my 2016's first game of the season.  Three weeks of games canceled and now to fit all of them into what's left of the season (ends May21).  I hope his team has lots of pitching depth!

Wow!  And I'm complaining about our weather.  Locally, most HS teams are just over halfway through the season. 

My son's DII JUCO plays their final weekend series this coming weekend (4th-5th),  The regional tournament starts 5 days later.  To date they've played 46 games.  56 games were on the original schedule.

DANG I hate to read this!! Baseball delayed?? That just ain't right. Here in Texas we hurt for you. Seriously.

Well, my son is expected to pitch tomorrow.  It's suppose to rain during the day, with falling temps; rain turning into snow, 2-4" of snow expected over tomorrow night.  I hope they get the game in.  Should be fun for the batters to pick out the white ball through the white snow.  Oh yeah!

Well, the seven week season has been compressed to 3 weeks but they'll manage to get almost all of their originally scheduled games in.  This week they have games M, Tu (double header), We, Fri, Sa with a practice on Thursday.  The next two weeks look to be about the same.  My son (2016) is doing well and getting use to being a catcher.  So far he's managed to play first, third, left field, right field, pitch, and catch.  In joking with his coach he suggested that coach put him in for an inning at 2nd, short, and center field. 2nd makes sense, the others not so much (son is somewhat built like Prince Fielder).  Coach laughed and said maybe.  It may be a crazy season, but the kids are having fun and working hard.

What a crazy season.  First few weeks all the games were cancelled and practice was inside.  Now with decent weather it's six games per week (1DH so they're playing 5 days) and on the day's they've had scheduled for practice it's rained - so no practice. Weather has been fun too.  Saturday it was mid 30's at game time, windy, and they had some sleet. Monday's game was in the 70's. Yesterday it was 98 at game time, and today it will be in the 70's.  Got to love it. Son (2016) is now batting 4th, get's on base almost every at bat (hit, walk, or error - it's all good), steals 2nd most of the time (good secondary lead and great jump - he's not fast), and scored the game winner last night from 1st base.