Today is 1st official day of HS baseball practice!

Yay!

....Still not changing my avatar quite yet.  Some more snow predicted for Wednesday.

Son got out of bed early this AM.....must be tryouts and baseball season!

Good morning,

Yep, son was up at 5:30 am for 1st morning run with the team, ready to roll

1 more week here in Chicago before we start.  Still have the last basketball game to play tonight and then on to baseball.

You know there are many reasons why I would like to move from Southern California, however when I read threads like this I can not remember a single one of them.  LOL!!

Son's team has been practicing for two weeks... First non conf games this week! Oh, it's on!!

Tryouts start today! My son was packing up his catcher's bag carefully last night...

My son's team has been practicing for two weeks; they play their first two non-conference games.  I will be there, but he will not -  he'll be suiting up for post season basketball games played the same days.  They should win the first one, but the second opponent will be way too tough.  Don't tell my son, but I won't be heartbroken when they lose.  It's time for baseball!

Practicing for six weeks in great weather here in CA, now.. "biggest storm in years" threatens to rain-out first games this weekend.

Given how bad the drought is out there I would think you'd be welcoming the rain.  I wish I could send you the water from the lake in my backyard.  My front and back yard are soaked with all the rain and snow we've this year.

First official day here in Ohio....the parts of the field that don't have snow on them have standing water puddles from the melting that started late last week.  The weather here in Ohio makes for a lot of indoor practice.   Last spring practice started Feb.25th.....got on the field for the first time on Saturday March 30th....and played first game on Monday April 1st......hopefully that's not the case again this season.

First "official" day here in Colorado also... Sunny and pushing 60 degrees!  Actually not that unusual as I recall  ...Believe it or not, March is the cruelest month around here 

NOVA update:

-Got a full day in Monday

-Snow on Tuesday

-Snow on Wednesday

-Sunny and sub-30 wind chill on Thursday

-Friday looks great: high in high 20's with wind, but sunny

Looking forward to 40 degree weather.

Still have 12 inches of snow to melt in Chicago. Forecast this weekend 10-12 more coming. We'll be lucky to get out by April.

This is NOT good for BASEBALL.  Coming Monday morning.  This is really going to put baseball back a couple of weeks as the temps will not be very warm all next week to get rid of this stuff.

TCWPreps - I am so with you.  Not looking forward to another winter mess.  I know it's early March and it's still winter (meteorologically speaking), but I am so ready for spring and warmer weather.

Looks like my son's JuCo is just out of the "cold" zone (probably just rain for them) while we are in the moderate 4"-8" zone.  Ugh!  I guess it's a good thing I haven't put the snow shovels away yet......

I'm thinking this week will be completely lost for baseball in Fairfax County. Enough with this damn winter!

You mean you can see grass? What's that?  As I type it's -14F, we'll hit 6F today.  Maybe we'll see freezing on Thursday and we can start melting the 3-5 feet of snow on the ground.

Ah, but it's all good, tryouts are two weeks away.

Y'all would get a kick out of us in California.  We don't do weather well - nor do our fields. 

We got about 3-4" of rain over the last few days.  That's about 20% of our annual total precip and more than we've had in the last 8 months total.  After an uninterrupted Spring practice season, we will probably be off our field for a week and have to re-arrange the start of our season.

Right before the storm, the softball team conducted a major "save the field" operation...  First, they made an announcement for tarp donations at school.  That afternoon, they gathered several tarps and made about 300 sand bags.  They covered the entire infield skin, carefully layering the tarps so the seams were running to low points.  Looked like they were preparing for a Major Hurricane.  The whole group must have spent at least four hours, carefully placing tarps and sand bags.  I later heard from the AD that if backfired and the water seeped through the seams, leaving a soupy mess underneath.