Season Begins with foot of snow....

Know the feeling there bud!We have snow cover with a coating of ice on top of it. Makes it hard to melt when the sun does shine.

Thankfully we do not start up for another 3 weeks. And to think we were down to just a couple of inches on the ground...with some grass showing before this weekend. Still snowing now..easily a foot plus out there now....uggghhh!!!

Local HS will start play on April 2nd. Most of the snow should be gone by then except for the snow banks. Wisconsin has a spring season and a summer season of which a school can only play one of them.Most of the Milwaukee area schools play in the latter.They are the better teams in the state.Yea we have a spring champion and a summer champion but the fact of the matter is the schools that play in the summer are better prepared.PG has a spring league that those guys participate in prior to their season beginning and it makes a difference. I would like to see only 1 season in Wisconsin.A season say with a beginning of May start date.Would push Legion ball back a little but kids would not be playing any more just in better weather.Travel ball is not really a factor around here.So would not really affect those guys.The few good HS age travel teams around here are late summer/fall travel teams.

First day of tryouts snowed out. No school. My son is at an indoor baseball facility playing pickup baseball with friends. They'll spend hours arguing whether the ball that hit the wall is a flyout or homer. When they're done two high school teammates and he will get in a serious workout. Friend's dad owning a facility: priceless.

RJM

Most of the indoor places around here do not have the room...the ones I know about are mainly pitching mounds and batting cages....only one outside of Philly I know about that have full size infield..what town is the facility in.... like to check it out?

Supposed to be in the 50s today, and 62 tomorrow. By Thursday they expect more valley snow .

Tryouts today and tomorrow, and the season starts on the 9th. At least the freshmen have fairly decent weather for the tryouts!

We have already played 4 official games. I guess I shouldn't complain about the 30 and 40 degree weather we had this weekend, but darn it was cold with the wind blowing at 25 mph.

10" here in Lynchburg makes it a whiteout until this weekend, more than likely.

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Originally posted by dad43:
RJM

Most of the indoor places around here do not have the room...the ones I know about are mainly pitching mounds and batting cages....only one outside of Philly I know about that have full size infield..what town is the facility in.... like to check it out?

It's lanes where the dividing nets can be raised to the ceiling. There isn't an outfield. They don't run the bases. They have ground rules on where the ball hits and how hard it's hit. Grounders have to be fielded cleanly before leaving the infield which is the back net at second base.

Today would be a good day to be related to Cust and have access. Have you been in the dome?

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I thought you guys just played with orange baseballs when the weather got this bad?


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Put a drag-screen behind this and right-coast baseball is back in business.

Bad News: There's six inches of snow on the baseball field.

Good News: Starting Friday it's fifty or above for five of the following seven days.

Bad News: It's supposed to rain five of those seven days.

I can't imagine when the field will be ready. It doesn't look good for next week's scrimmages. Opening day is the 20th.

RZ1, that looks like something you need up around the Arlington area.Everytime you ride over there there are always these guys wanting to race. I pull up just wanting a little liquid trail groomer but NOOOOO!

What indoors? That's for wimps. Son's school is in the parking lot doing infield and outfield for tryouts. It's was nice 20 degrees yesterday.

I feel all of your pain. Lived in Indiana my whole life up until 2 years ago. Now live in Tampa, FL. It is amazing to me that the people here wear winter coats when the high is 60. We've been playing ball since the first of February. My son said the other day how he remembers practicing in his coach's pole barn in Indiana and it was below zero...he said, what were we thinking?

Just imagine how much snow you'd have without 'global warming.'

Last weekend, I was in San Luis Obispo watching Cal Poly play Sacramento State, and the weather was in the low 70s for the day games, but only in the high 50s for the night games.

yea, we had a doubleheader last Saturday and it was right around 80. We are appreciating this kind of weather now versus the blazing hot weather we have in the summer.

I found out this weekend the high school program has a new artificial turf field for practice. The rest of the high school knows it as the parking lot.

The snow melted this weekend. The field is a bit wet. The forecast for tonight: rain, Monday: rain, Tuesday: rain, Wednesday: rain. I'm guessing no scrimmages this week.

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Originally posted by RJM:
I found out this weekend the high school program has a new artificial turf field for practice. The rest of the high school knows it as the parking lot.

How's their new artificial turf groomer working out?