Game Thursday - how to dress, lost and found, time, notices for late players

We picked up a red jacket and a water bottle after practice. John will bring them to the game on Thursday.

Please arrive around 6:00 to 6:10 pm for the 6:30 game.

Please let John (jfaughnan@gmail.com) know if your player will be late for the game. We're generally good with this as long as we know ahead of time. My apologies for misplacing prior notices.

We play Bees vs. Redhawks 6:30 pm at Riverside 1 - by the school building, parking is on Albion Ave on the NE side of the field. The official HGRA site has directions:

Riverside Park - East on Grand to Lexington, South on Lexington to W. 7th (Fort Road). Park is on east side of Lexington.

Positions are available online, but they do change.

It may be cold. A good way to dress for cold this time of year is layers such as:

• a t-shirt base
• a long sleeved shirt
• an optional thin windbreaker
• uniform on top
  

Depending on weather and what gear you have the windbreaker may go on top. Please dress your player as best you can. I know my son won't go along with the above list but your child may be more agreeable. I will have a solid windbreaker for Tim. Players who are not adequately dressed may be sent home. I played one may game last year where some players had chattering teeth and I don't want to do that again. Hypothermia can happen on a cold wet night.

We are short catchers. To encourage more to volunteer to catch anyone catching gets to play extra innings, and non-catchers get more bench time -- at least until we have more catchers!

The Bees name comes from the "... Burlington Bees, affiliate of the KC Royals. Hall of Famers Paul Molitor and Billy Williams (Chicago Cubs) played for them." We'll ask the players at the game who knows this.

There's a bug on the HGRA web site; it's not showing game schedules correctly when you go to your personal page. There's a public Posted Schedule page on front page of the baseball site. I'd link to it but I'm not sure that the site content is "linkable".

Schedule correction: flip a coin for home and visiting teams

The HGRA game scheduler was supposed to randomly assign us to be home and visiting team status, but it didn't work.

So Commissioner Dennis has asked that we go back to flipping a coin at the start of games.

Practice tonight and weather

Stormy weather, but unless there's a lightning issue we'll have practice tonight. Be sure to wear a cap and a rain jacket.

Coach Marty won't be able to attend tonight so it would be good to get extra help.

Coach clinic Thursday, Pitching Clinic Monday

There's a coach clinic Thurs:

HGRA Baseball Clinic will be held this Thursday, April 30, from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the new Macalester College Fieldhouse on snelling Ave. Enter from the west side of the building - I will be there to direct you to the clinic.

And a pitching clinic for all players Monday 6:30 pm at Expo.

The Bees for 2009

We're the Bees this year, and Paul Meekin joins Marty and I on the coaches bench. HGRA has a new web site, we're still learning how it will work.

The site and most links are reasonably current. The calendar (Google, so shareable!) has been updated based on our practice and game schedules.

Our practices are Tuesdays at 7pm and games are Thursdays at 6:30pm. The first game is May 14th.

Our first practice is Tuesday April 28 at Aldine Park, 1717 Iglehart Ave, St Paul, MN 55104.

Our blog is at http://hgrabaseball.blogspot.com. Please also read our Welcome to the Bees page.

The links on the left side include our calendar; an agenda version is also shown. If you use electronic calendaring you can subscribe to the calendar using this link; if you use Google Calendar the button beneath the agenda view will add the calendar to your Google account.

See you at the practice!

Coach Marty Marrone
Coach John Faughnan 651-336-5548 or jfaughnan@gmail.com.
Coach Paul Meekin