Anyone experiencing a major water shortage?

For Hire - The PG Drought Busters!

We will schedule a big tournament in your area and end that year long drought in a hurry.

Warning - Be ready for some gigantic thunder storms complete with Flash Flooding!

PG-are you talking about the rain in Atlanta. Send some to Memphis. We are headed to Atlanta in the morning, I bet the game schedules are all off. How does the weather look for tomorrow

thanks

PGStaff - Please head to West Texas. They always need rain.

On another note, I followed the tournament last year through the stormy weather and you did a great job with the game realignment. I'm sure you learned many "tricks" during that experience and are prepared and using them this year. Thanks for the passion.

Thanks also to David Rawnsley who is doing a great job of keeping the "blog" and "wrap" updated, so that those of us left at home are somewhat in the loop.

PG,
Remember July 2005? Rain outs all day, then your guys literally pumping water so sons team could start at 12:30AM? I think one of the games was called around 2:30 AM...and scouts & recruiters were still there, thru it all!
Oh, the memories! But yall were wonderful!

I'll take a torrential here in Dallas!

BBmom, I recall the PG event in 2005 fondly. It was the craziest thing I've ever attended. A monsoon came through Atlanta and lasted for days yet baseball was still played thanks to the efforts by the PG folks. I cannot imagine what the bill for surface drying agent is for something like that....

DBAT 17 - 9
Bandits Baseball 4

Ricky Cruz drops a 3 run bomb to lead his team back to victory!!! This kid can play the game, I hope the scouts are paying attention because Ricky is earning the right to play at a high D1 program. Did I mention he is a great outfielder as well.

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Originally posted by ACowboyFan:
DBAT 17 - 9
Bandits Baseball 4

Ricky Cruz drops a 3 run bomb to lead his team back to victory!!! This kid can play the game, I hope the scouts are paying attention because Ricky is earning the right to play at a high D1 program. Did I mention he is a great outfielder as well.

Rick also made a great catch in the OF; solo HR also by Muncy and Baker.

The McKinney Marshals 17U beat the Atlanta Braves last night 5-2 at Turner Field behind a 3 hitter by Jake Feckley. OF Chase Durham hit a bomb over the Coke bottle in left field and SS Catfish Elkins made 2 plays behind second base to shut down 2 of the Braves late inning rallies...

Get ya some of that DBAT!



The Arizona Firebirds had a BYE.

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Originally posted by catcher:
The McKinney Marshals 17U beat the Atlanta Braves last night 5-2 at Turner Field behind a 3 hitter by Jake Feckley. OF Chase Durham hit a bomb over the Coke bottle in left field and SS Catfish Elkins made 2 plays behind second base to shut down 2 of the Braves late inning rallies...

Get ya some of that DBAT!



The Arizona Firebirds had a BYE.

LOL....but tell us Shayne, did your guys turn Texiera into a pin cushion?

Texiera asked Cox for the night off...Strange...He wanted no part of the Vegas and Black Attack...

For 10 points...
Does anyone know about "The Vine That Ate the South"

DBAT love goes out to Cruz, Baker, and Muncey for their bombskies!!! And Heathcott and Eickman for their pitching performances!!

Dugout Club Tigers 16U 4
Dallas Panthers 3

Team IBC 17u 6
Dallas Tigers 16U 6


Bergen County Bombers 2
Texas Magic 5

Connecticut Bombers 17u 2
McKinney Marshals Black 9

World Yacht Clippers National 0
Dallas Tigers 17U 8

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Originally posted by catcher:

For 10 points...
Does anyone know about "The Vine That Ate the South"

Is it "R" rated?

Kudzu -

Stand still to long and it will grow over you. A small town in SC has a kudzu festival and they advertise “come this year, next year the town will be covered up”

http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/

If team demarini is outfitted and sponsored by them, then does Team IBC get all the Root beer they want? If so, if they need another coach next summer, I'm in! I don't have to be the head coach. In fact, I'd like to be the bullpen coach so I can keep a cooler of IBC down there. Very low pressure with lots of cold, free IBC Root Beer...what a summer!!!

Seriously if you want to end a drought take the following steps.

1) Buy a couple of bags of diamond chalk.
2) Throw em in the back of the pickup bed.
3) Drive a couple of days and don't touch the chalk.

Never seen this method fail.

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Arlington A's 17U had their first game called due to weather delay....they were winning 9-1 in the 3rd on Tuesday. Mason Melotakis was pitching.

Wed. July 9th
Arl. A's 17U 2
East Cobb Astros 0

WP - Blake Helm
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WP: Blake Helm (AA): 6 IP, 1 H, 0 R/ER, 11 K, 2 BB, 0 HP
S: Calvin Bailey (AA): 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R/ER, 2 K, 1 BB, 0 HP
LP: Mat Foody (ECB): 0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R/ER, 1 K, 1 B, 0 HP

Cody Dygig (AA): 1-3, 2B


Currently game #3 is in a weather delay today for the Arlington A's against Winward Rangers.

A note from the blog:

The top of the first inning was all that the Dugout Tigers needed in their 9 AM game on Thursday morning at the Complex. SS Alex Hand and C Josh Wallace, both 2010 prospects, each hit 2-run home runs in the first inning before Dallas Panthers RHP Robert Slagel (2011) had got his second out. Once Slagel settled down, though, it was all over for the Tigers. Slagel finished the game with 6 1/3 no-hit innings. But LHP Conner Kendricks only allowed 3 hits and 3 runs in a complete game effort and the Tigers pulled out a 4-3 win.

DBAT 16 4
South Florida Bandits 1

Jacques de Gruy complete game, 1 hit with 10Ks.

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Originally posted by RETIRED GM:
BBmom, I recall the PG event in 2005 fondly. It was the craziest thing I've ever attended. A monsoon came through Atlanta and lasted for days yet baseball was still played thanks to the efforts by the PG folks. I cannot imagine what the bill for surface drying agent is for something like that....

Yeah, try sitting in a hotel room for days on end answering calls from scouts wanting to know when XYZ was pitching.

Heck, I couldn't even give them when we were playing.

Then, I believe to this date we were the only team of record to be ousted without giving up a single run in regulation play.

**** that "runner on second start" extra inning rule.

Remember when we went to Humperdink's and AK had those Elvis glasses on with no shirt? Hahahahah....

On a side not, AK will be coming home from Cape Cod with a compound fracture in his index finger. I guess he thought his bare hand was a better hand to catch a line drive.

Still made the double play though........

O'Brady wins 10 pts and the opportunity to sit in a locked car with SWAC driving from Georgia to Texas. During the drive, Obrady will have to listen to SWAC give the history of DBAT, along with a verbal player profile of each DBAT kid that has signed, and a contrast and comparison to DBAT and the Roman Empire...enjoy! It should take about 12 hours.

Kudzu - - The Vine That Ate The South

Kudzu is native to Japan and China, however it grows well in the Southeastern United States. Kudzu is a vine that when left uncontrolled will eventually grow over almost any fixed object in its proximity including other vegetation. Kudzu, over a period of several years will kill trees by blocking the sunlight and for this and other reasons many would like to find ways to get rid of it. The flowers which bloom in late summer have a very pleasant fragrance and the shapes and forms created by kudzu vines growing over trees and bushes can be pleasing to the eye during the summer months.
The following statement appeared in an agricultural bulletin in 1928, about 20 years after it was first introduced in Florida as a forage crop. "Kudzu is not without disadvantages. It is slow and expensive in getting established, is exacting in requiring only moderate grazing and mowing, is deceptive about its real yield, especially to those who do not know it well, and sometimes becomes a pest."

In the south where the winters are moderate the first frost will turn kudzu into dead leaves and soon after just gray vines. The kudzu vine will continue growing the next summer almost from where it was stopped by cold weather the previous year. Around here it seems most folks don't pay much attention to kudzu and maybe that is because there isn't much we can do about it except temporarily kill it with herbicide or let livestock graze on it when it gets to be too much of a problem. The warm, wet summer we had in 2005 made it look like a rain forest in places and the dry summer of 2006 didn't seem to have slowed kudzu down at all. Unusually low temperatures in the spring of 2007 caused kudzu to get off to a late start, however, it caught up rapidly during the hot and exceptionally dry summer of 2007 and is off to a good start in 2008.

Kudzu vines will cover buildings and parked vehicles over a period of years if no attempt is made to control its growth. A number of abandoned houses, vehicles and barns covered with kudzu can be seen in Georgia and other southern states. Many of the photos of kudzu shown on this web site were taken in the vicinity of Dahlonega, Georgia, a beautiful historic town in the mountains of North Georgia best known as the site of the first major gold rush in the U.S. in 1828.

Sincerely,