Just need some baseball!

2nd day of pitcher/catcher workouts here. Games start the first week of April. Can't get here soon enough for me.

My son is so worn out, even though he is in pretty good shape. It is good type of worn out.

We start with scrimmages this weekend...weather permitting - this is Ohio after all. Finally have a full squad now that our basketball team got beat out of tournament. Season starts March 28th. Cannot wait!

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Originally posted by cb12:
...now that our basketball team got beat out of tournament.

that's not until March 20- when they play Villanova.

We have had about 9 games,win some lose some just have fun.
4 of tho were regionals games

4-0 Regional

We have 2 more games this week, I love baseball season!

I feel bad for all you northern baseball fans as we have already played 15 games. I cannot imagine still looking forward to tryouts, much less opening day.

Yes, it' great that we get started in February. Now, it's non-stop pretty much until the end of the year. Start summer a couple weeks after hs season, then fall tournaments with camps and showcases mixed in.... I LOVE IT!

My son's team runs a two-mile 'circuit' a few times a week. Up hills, over the river, through the woods... I told him to avoid hollow logs and caves 'because all the bears will be waking up soon, and they'll be hungry.' You should have seen his face.

Ahhh but today is a gorgeous day...50 degrees, kids getting restless though. We northeners so appreciate these beautiful sunny days and hope that we have many more.
Darn! Their talking rain tomorrow...imagine that! Be a few more days before the field is even close to being ready. First game is March 28th then we cram a ton of games in until the middle of May when tournaments start!
I love baseball season!

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Originally posted by AntzDad:
over the river, through the woods...

I swear I've heard that phrase before...
Every year I think: "There's NO way that field is going to be ready!" And it always surprises me that it is. Next week we have scrimmages scheduled.

We have a scrimmage scheduled for Saturday and several for next week. I hope you're right and the field will be ready.

2014 son is @ Disney this week and it's killing me I'm not there watching. I am here in PA getting fields ready when they come back (I work @ sons school) Edged and weeded V field today,JV field tomorrow and softball field Fri.calling for sun and 60-70's thurs. & fri. hope to have fields tined,dragged and ready for scrimmage on Tues, 1st game on Weds, and first conference game on Sat.

Tryouts are next week up here in NH. but this year they only represent 52 more weeks of rehab till son gets to play again. He is 12 weeks post TJ surgery today so a long long way to go before he faces a batter again. Will be a long season watching him not play this season. Thankfully it is only his sophomore season so he still has his Jr and Sr years to look forward to.

I get to work on just watching a game and not shouting out encouragement or corrections to my son out on the field...lol Be good to break that habit some!

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Edged and weeded V field today,JV field tomorrow

JV and V each have their own field? WOW! Is that standard in your area? Private school? Very nice.

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Originally posted by 2013 Dad:
JV and V each have their own field? WOW! Is that standard in your area? Private school? Very nice.

Pretty much standard for suburban public schools. Varsity and JV ride the same bus, play at the same school, same time. Freshman have fewer games, different schedule.

That's great. Not the same around here. One field for both.

Yea...one field for both here as well and no Freshman team...I do like that our coach practices both teams together...older guys showing the younger guys the ropes and helping them learn the system...

Our HS also has one baseball field & one softball field. Usually, but not always, JV & V play the same HS at the same time and play at each HS simultameously (hope I spelled that right). It's a beautiful day here today and they're having some of the tryouts outside! There is hope!!

Middle school, high school (JV and Varsity) have one field in our town.

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Originally posted by 2013 Dad:

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Edged and weeded V field today,JV field tomorrow

JV and V each have their own field? WOW! Is that standard in your area? Private school? Very nice.

Yes private school but JV field is very simple nothing close to what V is but still a lot of work. Not standard for the local public schools as a matter of fact only 2 of the 5 public schools in the county have there own fields the other 3 use fields owned by the boroughs or townships.

Most of the schools in our area have a V and JV field. The varsity fields are much nicer than all the jv fields and the varsity fields have fences while jv fields typically don't. In fact many of the jv fields are pretty bad for the most part. The 9th grade in our school system is in the jr high and the freshman team have ther own field. JV & V travel to all games together while freshman teams do the opposite of V & JV teams. All three teams play the same schools but if the V & JV are home, freshman are on the road and vise-versa. This solves the problem for those schools who don't have a jv and/or a freshman field.