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Chicagoland weather has been brutal so far.  Hardly any teams have been able to get outside for practice, let alone all games being cancelled.  Any fellow IL'ers chompin at the bit? I'm curious to see how this affects the first week or so of real games.  Will it have an affect?  Will defense perhaps be lackluster due to very few reps of real fly balls, groundballs on an infield? Pitching poor due to not being able to throw outside? Hitting?  

 

Interested to hear any thoughts...or share if you've been lucky to practice/play outside yet!

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Absolutely chomping at the bit and not excited about the forecast of possibly more snow this weekend and temps not breaking 40 degrees for the next two weeks. School parking lot is still full of snow, ice, and epic potholes, so they haven't even been on the asphalt yet, which is usually step one for our teams until the weather breaks.

 

I'm not sure how much fielding drills on the gym floor really help, but they're working on a lot of fundamentals, which can never be a bad idea, IMO. We worry about the first week of conference, too . . . if they can even start on time. Not having seen live pitching will probably affect everyone.

 

Certainly can't control the weather, but we're really anxious, too.

 

Ditto here in New England!   1st scrimmage in Monday -- ?? --- no way. They haven't even been outside yet, and are sharing the gym space with every other sport.

 

It is also affecting college play --- Uconn was supposed to have 1st home series this weekend vs Georgetown and that has been moved to their home field in Maryland because of that last blast of snow.  I was looking forward to watching some of that!

 

 But of course there is no use in complaining!!   

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