At least in the winter. Baseball tournaments are every weekend. You can pick and choose what you want to play. Is So Cal,FLA, Texas and other southern states this way? Just curious. Youth tournaments are everywhere with new facilities opening up all of the time. 26 tournaments from now till March 1st. YAY baseball!
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Posts: 530 | Location: Phoenix AZ | Registered: May 02, 2007
Here in Northern Cal. there are tournaments year around. Can be a little chilly in the winter months but nothing that would stop the hard core types. AZ would scare me in the middle of summer (although I hear we may be playing there next summer ) I'll take my Cal. weather any day.
Posts: 544 | Location: Northern California | Registered: November 10, 2004
Let's just say that tournaments are scheduled in the summer, but most choose to play out of the Valley. Flagstaff is very popular. A lot of teams shut down for the summer. Time to travel. Omaha, Colorado, New York, lots of tournaments elsewhere when school is out. A traditional baseball, family vacation.
Everyone has played at least one tournament in July at home. We call it home field advantage. But usually not two.
Hustle never has a bad day.
Posts: 530 | Location: Phoenix AZ | Registered: May 02, 2007
Playing year round would just get in the way of playing basketball. The skiing stinks in AZ too.
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Posts: 1689 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
Living in Pacific Palisades. You can walk to the beach, a drive to the the desert, mountains, and inner city is about an hour away. I won't mention the nightlife, because it dosent compare to NY or Europe.
The best thing is that we can really play bb all year round. I actually asked a teacher yesterday what an ice storm really was, cuz I saw that on the news..lol...
Last night it was down to 49 degrees and we consider that freezing.
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Posts: 13 | Location: Pacific Palisades/Los Angeles, CA | Registered: December 26, 2006
* Live fully, enjoy every moment, and let go of the petty problems, mostly of our own invention, which seek to destroy the spirit. * - a good friend, the late Brad Perkins of KIRO
Posts: 1689 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
"When I die, I may not go to heaven. I don't know if they let cowboys in. If they don't, just let me go to Texas. 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been."
Disclaimer: Not theologically correct, but expresses the sentiment.
"Show me a guy who won't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser" Sandy Koufax
Posts: 4133 | Location: Texas, USA | Registered: June 02, 2003
Originally posted by Texan: "When I die, I may not go to heaven. I don't know if they let cowboys in. If they don't, just let me go to Texas. 'Cause Texas is as close as I've been."
Disclaimer: Not theologically correct, but expresses the sentiment.
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Please Pray for our Troops and their Families!
Being descended from Texas families on both sides, including an ancestor who fought alongside Sam Houston (and then was left to rot in a prison in Mexico by him), I'd have to ask why you'd say "Not theologically correct"?
On the other hand, having been there in the summer "heaven" might not be the word I'd use.
Posts: 4703 | Location: Southern CA, USA | Registered: January 02, 2003
Originally posted by CADad: Being descended from Texas families on both sides, including an ancestor who fought alongside Sam Houston (and then was left to rot in a prison in Mexico by him), I'd have to ask why you'd say "Not theologically correct"?
On the other hand, having been there in the summer "heaven" might not be the word I'd use.
Like the old joke about Texans not being bothered by hades. Said the heat wasn't bad at all, because there was no humidity. But if you wanted to be miserable, go to Houston in August...
"Show me a guy who won't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser" Sandy Koufax
Posts: 4133 | Location: Texas, USA | Registered: June 02, 2003
Like the old joke about Texans not being bothered by hades. Said the heat wasn't bad at all, because there was no humidity. But if you wanted to be miserable, go to Houston in August...
We played 5 games in Brownsville this past summer and 5 games in Arizona last summer. I am not sure where our thought process was. At least we were able to go out in the gulf and fish in Brownsville. May be this year we can go to Colorado in August. Never mind we are going to "Remember the Alamo!"
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Please Pray for our Troops and their Families!
That's a mole hill. Only four lifts. Vertical drop less than 2,000 feet. Only a handful of diamond trails. No double diamond. Like I said, the skiing in AZ stinks.
* Live fully, enjoy every moment, and let go of the petty problems, mostly of our own invention, which seek to destroy the spirit. * - a good friend, the late Brad Perkins of KIRO
Posts: 1689 | Location: Mid-Atlantic | Registered: October 29, 2007
That, my friends, is why California is the best. Skiing close by, ocean close by. Warm weather for baseball but just enough cool temperature to take time off around the Holidays.
Posts: 544 | Location: Northern California | Registered: November 10, 2004
) I'll take my Cal. weather any day.
