Jupiter

We will be going! Son is an '09 LHP/OF playing on a team out of East Cobb, Ga., called the Georgia PG Texas Orange.

We'll be there. My son plays for the Richmond Braves and wears #47. Holden,I plan on checking out a Select game to meet you & TR.

I will be there as I usually come up each year.
But this year I am coming to watch my son!
Sounds strange but I am pretty sure he will be either helping coach a PG team or scouting. Thank you PGJerry!
This will be a first!

I'll be there coach the NY-PG- Dark Green team and my son Michael will be with me playing. This will be our last Fall PG event together.

My son is an 09 OF playing for the PG Columbia Blue team who is still being assigned a coach. Who knows TPM, might be your son!

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Originally posted by goldenretriever:
My son is an 09 OF playing for the PG Columbia Blue team who is still being assigned a coach. Who knows TPM, might be your son!

Oh no, I only hope he is only an assistant coach.

My son and I will also be there. He is a 2009 shortstop also playing on the Georgia PG Texas Orange. Not sure what number he'll have.

I'll be there with the Rays Scout team from Arizona...first time we've taken an Arizona team.

Looking forward to a great weeekend!

Pop up hitters son will be there too. Look for a guy who hits towering pop ups.

My son will be there with the Warhawks. #18. looking forward to seeing you all there.

ExPro, Do you know what day he's pitching yet?

Sons pitching for the Oriole Scout team. He's pitching friday!

Son will be there. Catching for the Temecula (ABD) Boxers. See all y'all there!

ExPro - your CA guys are very, very talented. Good luck!

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Originally posted by no11:
Temecula (ABD) Boxers!

Get teased with that name much?

Holden,
Dan is pitching Saturday a.m. @ 10:20 field Blue 5.
Hope to see you at the games.

no11 - we seem to have a very good team. Should be a great weekend.

ExPro, we don't play until 3 that day so I'll try to check it out. Good luck to him!

What is the weather forecast for the weekend?
Looks like rain (again) for Thursday and Friday.

Last year I was staying in a townhome near the fields and managed to lock myself out and during a downpour at 11:00 pm had to go back to the fields, somehow liberate a ladder, climb to a second story balcony and open a door that thankfully wasn't locked. No matter what else happens this weekend, if I don't have to do that again it will be a good weekend.

Good luck to all.

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Originally posted by igball:
What is the weather forecast for the weekend?
Looks like rain (again) for Thursday and Friday.

Last year I was staying in a townhome near the fields and managed to lock myself out and during a downpour at 11:00 pm had to go back to the fields, somehow liberate a ladder, climb to a second story balcony and open a door that thankfully wasn't locked. No matter what else happens this weekend, if I don't have to do that again it will be a good weekend.

Good luck to all.

The only thing that could have capped that is if you got arrested on a suspicion of burglery.

When I look back on the ridiculous things I've done for my son's baseball life that will be right up there.

infidel - haha. actually, no have never been teased. I had zippo to do with the name, but I do like your sense of humor - and particularly the shorts.

If anybody gets a chance to see the Texas Scout Team Yankees play be sure to watch Jameson Taillon RHP and Everett Williams OF.

Forecast is bigtime rain. It has been beautiful here for a week.

Poor PGStaff. Sometimes I think he has a cloud follow him around the country. At least hurricane season is about over.

Here's a quick preview of the event from Baseball America:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/high-school/news/2008/267080.html

There is also a daily blog about Jupiter - actually several blog articles per day - on PGCrosschecker.com:

http://www.pgcrosschecker.com/blogs/2008/tournaments.aspx

The 8:00 a.m. article today (Jupiter Day 2 - you can select the day at the top) says 90% chance of rain, but it sounds like they are getting games in before the rain comes. I think Perfect Game has a lot of experience in handling rain interruptions and getting the fields ready to play as quickly as possible!


Julie

Seems like every year there's a problem with the rain there....

It would be nice if there was a better venue (at least location wise) for this tournament.

The weather was great for the AZ Fall Classic last week.

I lived in S. Florida for a couple of years. While I still miss the ocean here in AZ you can count on the weather and the access to baseball facilities in unmatched in the world.

It looks like they are getting the games played today, as there are many blog updates with Friday's game highlights so far:
http://www.pgcrosschecker.com/blogs/2008/tournaments.aspx

Julie

The weather pretty much held up, drizzle but no huge downpour. Hope tomorrow is the same.
The blog is interesting, out of 38 games played 91 pitchers threw 88 mph and above, 52 of them threw 90 or above.
BTW, Golden Retriever, our sons are on the same team.

TPM your son is my son's coach! Tell him my son is number 16!

I got to pitch at 8AM in the morning on the red field. That stinks. I wonder if anyone is gonna be there.

Gator22,
PG is very good about switching teams from red field to blue field each game.

It's your coaches decision as to who pitches when and no one's fault as to who is there to watch when you do.

I'm having fun following the Jupiter action through the blog. It sounds like the weather wasn't too bad after all, as they got all the scheduled games in thru Friday despite a little rain, and now today (Sat.), the weather forecast is clear.

http://www.pgcrosschecker.com/blogs/2008/tournaments.aspx

If you scroll down a bit in the Day 3 reports, this one is interesting - Robert Benincasa of FL came close to pitching a perfect game. It was still a no-hitter, but 3 runners reached 1B due to errors. Quote from the article:

"6-0, 175 senior" ... "Benincasa pitched steadily in the 84-86 mph range with a sweeping 70-72 mph curveball."

He's not 6'4" and doesn't throw 90+, but it sounds like he really can pitch!

Julie

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Originally posted by MN-Mom:
I'm having fun following the Jupiter action...
Julie

I've been staring at it for over three hours Mom and I haven't seen any action yet... I'm not sure, but I think the eye winked at me once.

One of our posters son, Jonathan Meyer, just pitched a complete game, no hitter, check out the new blog, his velocity was not over powering (low 80's).
This 09 RHP has made a commitment to the Clemson Tigers.

Way to go Jonathan!

Don't forget that the newly designed [URL=www.baseballwebtv.com ]BaseballWebTV.com[/URL] is constantly uploading video highlights & prospect reports from Jupiter this weekend!!! (This event will be free to watch for a few weeks too!)

Check out all the videos from this event at:
BaseballWebTV - Jupiter 08

Or watch the homepage each day to see the videos on the bottom of the page as they get loaded onto the site! We hope you enjoy...this is a new style of event coverage for us.

Wow, Congrats to Jonathan on the CG no hitter! Do you know if GasMe is at the tourney?



Julie