I spent part of yesterday afternoon trying unsuccessfully to free Ms. Right Field Fog’s car from a giant patch of ice. With every swing of the hammer (it came to that), I realized I’m pretty much done with winter.
We need to fire up the hot stove.
I’m not really sure why the whole hibernation thing happened. I wasn’t having an existential blog crisis. Nothing terribly exciting was happening in my life. A week just turned into two and that turned into a month, and then everything got snowed in. For those who have been checking and coming up empty, I apologize.
But the hibernation is over, so let’s stop talking nonsense and talk something important. Baseball.
Rosters are out and available all in one place on the official site. I’ll go into much more detailed analysis in the coming weeks, but a few names that caught my eye: batting title runner-up Drew Martinez back on the Brewster roster; first-team preseason All-American Kenny Diekroeger on the Y-D roster, along with Stanford teammate Mark Appel; and St. John’s sophomore Jeremy Baltz, a super-frosh last year, on the Falmouth roster.
We’ve also got a schedule. The season opens with a full slate of games on Friday, June 10. Start in Cotuit at 5 p.m., stop in at Bourne at 6 and catch the nightcap in Wareham? Yes, please.
Our friends at Codball got a nice new look. Also a really angry commenter.
The Cape League will follow the NCAA’s lead in adopting a 20-second pitch clock this season.
Yahoo axed its college baseball coverage, but in a bit of good news for college baseball fans and for the man himself, their baseball guru Kendall Rogers didn’t miss a beat and is now writing for Perfect Game.
Baseball America’s early Top 50 (subscriber content) for the 2011 draft includes 18 former Cape Leaguers, led by UConn’s George Springer, who ranks fourth. Anthony Rendon of Rice is No. 1.
Triple A got Ms. RFF’s car unstuck. Slightly embarrassing for me since the guy apparently pushed it out. I tried that.
And in the best news I’ve heard all day department: the college baseball season opens on Friday, Feb. 18, just two weeks from today.
Welcome back Will! We missed ya!
It’s okay, buddy. The Triple A guy was really big and really annoyed at me.