Practice called due to weather

It's too wet and unpredictable tonight, especially with storms moving in

All Star game - please email me your status

We need to fill our our All Star Game roster this week. I've added a column to our usual player roster listing who's attending the Game and who can't make it and who's (according to the HGRA) isn't eligible.

Players are randomly assigned to teams and coaches and play at either 12:30 or 3:30. The games are a lot of fun!

Please check the player roster and, if you see a ? in the column please let me know. I'd like to get this to the Commissioner by Wed.

Thanks!

Seven players absent - but we still played (swine flu?)

We had seven players absent and we were up against one of the better teams -- but we still played and did our best.

Our pitchers did well, but we were missing some of better fielders and hitters. I won't bother repeating the score!

Oscar has an injured knee and Will had a conflict. Wylie, Ben, Jimmy, Aaron, Aidan are all out with fever. One player is now being treated for Swine Flu, so it's something to ask about if fever, sore muscles and cough persist. H1N1 (swine) flu is fairly common in Minnesota but it's not a severe flu (though it's not fun to have any influenza). The MN Dept of Health has a very good set of recommendations that everyone should at least review.

For our next practice we'll continue to develop our pitchers and hitting and we're going to target our outfielders for special drills. We're getting special pitching coaches to come in and work with our pitchers.

Saturday June 20th is our unofficial trip to Grand Slam. Please review the All Star Game  information and let us know if your player can attend.

Thank you to all the people who notified us of absences today. Of all the coaches I'm best able to check email during the day so please always copy jfaughnan@gmail.com. Everyone did send a notice, though the volume was so high I missed Aidan's illness notice!

Thur Jun 11 game, All Star Game, unofficial outing to Grand Slam 6/20

The rotation is up for Thur game vs. the Bandits at Highland Senior High field. It’s likely to change. At this time we don’t know of any absences, but Oscar hurt his knee and could miss. If everyone shows we have 15 players, so there’s lots of bench time to distribute. Catchers spend less time on the bench; thanks Wylie for helping catch. All else being equal players who miss practice without advanced notice will also pick up some extra bench time but I do try to distribute it evenly.

Note our batting order is relatively fixed.

Today Lucas, Jimmy and William missed practice. If anyone will miss the game Thursday please email john at jfaughnan@gmail.com or phone 651-336-5548. Lucas is bringing treats on Thursday.

We’re doing well with hitting, so this practice we focused on fielding and pitching. We currently have two regular pitchers (John and Tim) and 3-5 others who are willing to step up when called. Max is keen to give it a go. Pitching is tough, we sure appreciate those who take the mound for the team. We hope to develop some more regular pitchers so that if someone’s having a bad day we can move things around. Pitching clinic is Monday and we appreciate those who have attended. We have asked Commissioner Dennis to send us one of his pitching coaches for next practice.

The All Star game is scheduled for Sunday June 28th, all payers born before [removed date, it's wrong] are eligible. There’s usually a 12:30 and a 3:00 game, players are assigned to teams at random and are notified of their team a week or so ahead. Dennis must receive confirmation by June 19th. We’ve handed information sheets to the players.

For the Bees we have Collin, Tim, Lucas, Jimmy, David, Ben, Wiley and Oscar as eligible.

On June 20th we’re going to do an unofficial pay-your-own-way team outing to Grand Slam in Burnsville. Players are invited to wear their team jerseys. This isn’t official HGRA, it’s just for fun. We will have coaches at the batting cages. We’ll see if Coach Marty can hit the high speed pitches!

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Bees v. Mustangs

The rotation for tomorrow's game is online. We expect to have 14 players. Max Celander is away but Aaron is off the disabled list.

We've done well our past two games, so we'll take it one inning at a time and enjoy ourselves.

We're at Riverside Park 1, see the official web site for directions. It's the park near 7th and Lexington.

Asher will bring the treats tomorrow -- thanks Asher!

Expo school is having their end-of-year "fun run" starting at 5:30 tomorrow -- later than past years. Coach John and Tim will aim to be at the game for 6:10 pm.