I love baseball. I love Cardinal’s baseball. And I enjoy Pujols and Holliday as the best 3-4 combination in the majors. My youngest son’s room has a life-sized Pujols pin-up, I own five Pujols rookie cards (including a card that is one of only 15 printed), and I will join any “retire #5” club. But I do not support $35m to keep Pujols.
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An enormous amount of energy from a wide cast of participants goes into carrying out a successful summer youth baseball season. You’ve got the Park Department staff, coaches, parents, players, concession staff and ball park maintenance staff, each playing a vital role in pulling it all together. Now we know that baseball enthusiasts come in all ages, but the cliché is true that the baseball program is primarily “for the kids.”
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CNN Reported today:
The sport of polo needs new oversight to protect its prized horses, the nation’s largest animal protection organization said after reports that a pharmacy’s mistake with medication may have killed 21 animals. “This tragedy has brought to light the absence of drug policies and regulation within the sport of polo,” said Keith Dane, director of equine protection for the Humane Society of the United States.
This is the precise reason that our country gets in trouble. Read the rest of this entry »
I heard a statistic reported on the radio the other day that 30% of Americans believe that Entertainers and Pro Athletes should not make more than $1,000,000 a year.
Kentucky’s new head coach is to be paid $4,000,000 a year for the next eight years which pales in comparison to Pujols who gets paid $16,000,000 a year to play baseball. Pujols gets left in the dark when compared to the $58,000,000 Wil Smith reportedly received from the movie Hancock.
The Muddogs 10-year-old baseball team is selling raffle tickets to an upcoming Cardinals game as a fund-raiser.
THE GAME
Friday, May 15th game – Brewers versus Cardinals at 7:15pm.
4 Fieldbox Tickets – Section 162, Row 6, Seats 1-4
$5 per raffle ticket
Drawing April 15th, winners will be contacted by phone. You do not need to be present to win.
Once in a while, amidst the hustle and bustle of day to day social networking, someone rises out of the fray who is decidedly special and worthy of deeper scrutiny. You know, when someone you’ve only recently met shoots straight to the top of your this-person’s-really-going-to-go-places list. The person who recently topped my whole family’s list is a young, Poplar Bluff native named Donnie Magruder.
Being a Cubs fan is difficult. There is the whole “We haven’t won a World Series in 100 years” thing. The “lovable loser” thing. The “Bartman” thing. No matter how close we get, we always seem to fall short at the last minute. That is what is expected from the Cubs. If you are a Cubs fan, you are expected to expect to lose. And if you think about it, that’s a pretty tough order. Expect to lose a competitive sport? Cubs fans, despite the expectations, never stop hoping. The hope that we’ll get the next guy out. The hope that the next pitch will be a strike. The hope that the ball will carry just a little bit further and we’ll get the go ahead run. That hope is what gets us through each inning, each game and each season. Read the rest of this entry »
The well-coached Greenville Lady Bears found themselves heading to the locker room for the last time this season after a 43-34 loss to Metro (St Louis) team at Farmington’s Civic Center.
The quarter-finals basketball game didn’t start out typical for the Lady Bears…the defense of Metro (St Louis) Panthers had the two Greenville insiders (Tara Porter and Sara Woodgeard) completely covered. But that left Kaylin Becker unguarded and she made the Panthers pay. Becker’s hot hand scored the first five field goals for Greenville and pushed her team into the lead against a cold-shooting Metro squad with the first quarter ending 5-12.
As Metro adjusted to keep Becker guarded, no other player was able to step up and lead the scoring and the once 8-point -lead diminished as Dekeisha Matthis got hot. #21 scored 9 Panther points to change the lead in her favor and closed out the first half with a 3-point-shot from well outside the NBA circle. Halftime score was 28-21.
The third quarter was punctuated by a very physical game and became a battle of defense and forced turnovers. Sara Woodgeard and Tara Porter began chiseling away at the lead and got their Greenville team within 2 by the first minute of the fourth quarter.
With the Greenville-biased crowd chanting and Metro Panthers in foul-trouble, the game looked like it could tilt back to the Lady Bears. But Metro’s full-court pressure caused too many Lady Bears’ mistakes including forced-passes and poor shot selections and the Lady Bears never got the lead back.
The well-coached and talented Greenville Lady Bears found themselves heading to the locker room for the last time this season after a 43-34 loss to Metro (St Louis) team at Farmington’s Civic Center.
Even after last Wednesday night’s 67-60 triumph over Portageville, Greenville girls’ basketball coach Diane Rainwater Meyer still has a pretty impressive “to do” list pending. Let’s see now…March 8: Coach the Lady Bears in the quarter-finals against the Metro (St. Louis) Lady Panthers at Farmington (today!). April 19: Celebrate 4th wedding anniversary. April 19, Part II: Bring Baby Ian into the world. May 3—
Wait a minute. Say what?
In order to gear up for the 2008 baseball season, semo.net’s Boy’s Traveling Little League Team will be holding tryouts on Saturday, September 22nd. Five of the 11-boy-team roster have been pre-selected and the remaining six positions will be considered from those trying out.
Requirements:
Sex: Boys
Age: Must be 9 or 10 on May 1st, 2008
Tryouts*:
When: 4pm, Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Where: Whiteley Park, Poplar Bluff*
*Preference during tryouts will be given to those who pre-register via email (see note below).
Coaches:
The team will be coached by Mike Coleman and Brian Becker. Their coaching philosophy goes deeper than wanting a winning team, they train the boys in the fundamentals and finer points of the game. Though practices will be exhausting, the boys will be treated with respect and encouraged to have fun while playing one of the greatest games invented.
Travel Schedule:
The team has plans to play in at least 8 “live arm” weekend tournaments from April through July of 2008. Most of the tournaments will be played within 75 miles of Poplar Bluff, however, the team will be traveling to Columbia in late July.
Practice Schedule:
During the remaining Fall and Winter months, the team will conduct occasional practices with an expanded practice schedule beginning in February.
Uniforms:
Players’ entire uniform including pants, belts, jerseys, and caps will be provided by semo.net.
Team Fees:
Players will pay $25/month from April through July to supplement the tournament entry fees.
Registration For Tryouts:
By registering for tryouts, players will be pre-assigned a tryout number and given preference over non-registered players during the tryout (for example, extra evaluation swings). To register, send an email with the following information to baseball@semo.net.
Player Name:
Player Birthdate:
City/Town:
If player is a pitcher or catcher, please indicate.
For More Information:
If you have questions, please email baseball@semo.net or call Coach Mike at 429.7629.