New to San Diego
 

I'm wondering if any of you guys work the San Diego Ca, area? I just moved here from Oregon and need some help finding my way around. I joined the San Diego Blues and have my first two games this week. Any help or adavice would be great.......James Neil [email protected]

God help you. Move, quickly, before it's too late.

No doubt. Everyone knows the only place to call baseball games worth calling is in the Pacific Northwest.


Tim.

Really? I've called games there, California, New York and Arizona and I wouldn't agree. Perhaps you have had a different exprerience. What level were the games you worked in the northwest?

I don't know much about the Pacific Northwest, but I would think the Southeast is where the best baseball is, considering it can be played almost all year long. I put my gear in the trunk of my car in early February and take it out in early November.

Wow, I wish I had two months off.

Kyle in northern San Diego.

Baseball America/National High School
Baseball Coaches Association 2007 Top 50

Rank School 2006 Record

1 Seton Hall Prep, West Orange, NJ 23-4
2 Katy (Texas) HS 37-8
3 Palm Beach Central HS, Wellington, FL 29-2
4 Brophy Prep, Phoenix, AZ 30-5
5 Chatsworth (Calif.) HS 31-3
6 Wilson HS, Long Beach 19-11
7 Klein-Collins HS, Spring, TX 27-12
8 Lakewood (Calif.) HS 30-5
9 Flanagan HS, Pembroke Pines, FL 29-3
10 Bellarmine Prep, San Jose, CA 34-4

If you continue the survey all the way through the top 50, you find only the following states with more than one team:

Florida 8
California 6
Georgia 4
Texas 3
Virginia 2
Ohio 2
Louisiana 2
Illinois 2
Arizona 2

can someone post the whole list which was mentioned above?

Southeast vs. Pacific Northwest = No contest, in this poll.

No doubt that Tim was casting to try to land Tee with this one. To his credit, Tee did not take the bait.

There is plenty of good ball to call almost no matter where you are in this grand country.

I count myself as being lucky to be able to watch VERY good teams at the HS level in Northern Virginia. One day, I hope to officiate at that level.

Pretty much as I surmised. Even my old stomping grounds in northern California fares better. I can't help but wonder on why BU56 is such a fan of NW baseball.

Baseball America/National High School
Baseball Coaches Association Top 50
Rank School '06 Record

1 Seton Hall Prep, West Orange, NJ 23-4
2 Katy (Texas) HS 37-8
3 Palm Beach Central HS, Wellington, FL 29-2
4 Brophy Prep, Phoenix, AZ 30-5
5 Chatsworth (California) HS 31-3
6 Wilson HS, Long Beach, CA 19-11
7 Klein-Collins HS, Spring, TX 27-12
8 Lakewood (California) HS 30-5
9 Flanagan HS, Pembroke Pines, FL 29-3
10 Bellarmine Prep, San Jose, CA 34-4
11 Jordan HS, Sandy, Utah 22-7
12 South Caldwell HS, Hudson, NC 30-6
13 Bishop Gorman HS, Las Vegas 35-7
14 Lake Brantley HS, Altamonte Springs, FL 22-6
15 Riverside HS, Greer, SC 31-2
16 Lassiter HS, Marietta, GA 32-4
17 Lexington (Kentucky) Catholic HS 36-6
18 Madison HS, Vienna, VA 22-2
19 American Heritage HS, Plantation, FL 22-7
20 Barbe HS, Lake Charles, LA 37-7
21 Maize (Kansas) HS 21-3
22 Cullman (Alabama) HS 37-13
23 Monsignor Pace HS, Opa Locka, FL 28-4
24 Horizon HS, Scottsdale, AZ 25-10
25 Monroe HS, Bronx, NY 50-2
26 Union HS, Tulsa, OK 29-13
27 Dobyns-Bennett HS, Kingsport, TN 33-6
28 Greenbrier HS, Evans, GA 35-1
29 Captain Shreve HS, Shreveport, LA 37-3
30 Auburn (Washington) HS 24-4
31 West Lauderdale HS, Collinsville, MS 30-6
32 Kennesaw Mountain HS, Kennesaw, GA 24-6
33 The Woodlands (Texas) HS 38-1
34 Brownsburg (Indiana) HS 24-5
35 Arundel HS, Gambrills, MD 23-3
36 Pace (Florida) HS 29-3
37 New Trier HS, Winnetka, IL 32-7
38 West Forsyth HS, Clemmons, NC 19-7
39 Fayetteville (Ark.) HS 25-8
40 Moeller HS, Cincinnati, OH 23-7
41 Punahou HS, Honolulu, HI 24-6
42 Cartersville (Georgia) HS 25-6
43 Saint Ignatius HS, Cleveland, OH 43-12
44 Oak Park HS, Kansas City, MO 23-9
45 Plant HS, Tampa, FL 20-3
46 Lyons Township HS, LaGrange, Ill. 34-7
47 Calallen HS, Corpus Christi, TX 33-9
48 Boone HS, Orlando, FL 19-7
49 James River HS, Midlothian, VA 15-8
50 Poly HS, Riverside, CA 25-5

gotblue?,

I read it differently. I think Tim either missed or chose to ignore the point of the post he responded to.

I would agree that there is good HS baseball across this country - as well as "not so good".

While the gentleman from N.C. suggests that the southeast has the best baseball overall, I would guess his colleagues from places like Texas, Arizona, and Southern California might find his observation a bit parochial.

In my experience, the milder climates do tend to feature better baseball overall - but only in the general case.

JM

Is everyone missing this? Tim (Big Ump) was reacting to Garth telling James to "move, quickly, before it's too late."

I mean, seriously, why would anyone want to leave San Diego. It's absolutely gorgeous here. Great weather, beautiful city, and really good baseball. Only out of jealousy would anyone go out of their way to insult this fine city. I guess I'd be jealous too if I lived where it rains 300 days out of the year.

Yeah, but Schottenheimer still couldn't get yall out of the first round ;)

Yes, and I guess A.J. Smith thinks Norv Turner is the answer.:rolleyes:

You mean he's not ?????? :p

Wow. I sure missed it. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

My comment had nothing to do with the quality of games, so when BU56 posted, I thought he had changed the subject,

Sure glad I don't live where it rains 300 days a year, either, where ever that is...the Olympic Peninsula, maybe? That's okay, a lot people make the incorrect assumption that Spokane is just outside of Seattle. It's a bit farther than that, about 280 miles.

Spokane is situated between a desert and the slope to the Rockies, so we don't have the kind of weather the west side of the state has. And, half of our days of precipitation are in the winter, when it snows.

And, so that you know, I lived long enough in California to experience the good, the bad and the ugly. It's a great place to visit. We own a place down there on the beach and and stay there four times a year.

Well, he was certainly the answer in Washington and Oakland :D

How does one coach wind up working for three of the worst owners in the league ???:eek:

Which one would that be?

Washington is the "Evergreen State."

Reminds me of the old saying: "California is the granola state. What ain't fruits and nuts are flakes."

San Diego is a horrid place. Simple dreadful. Don't move here....er, there.

Welcome to San Diego, now go home...but leave your daughter.

Perhaps I should have left a [sarcasm] tag [/sarcasm] around the entire message. Being from the Midwest, and still having a foot of snow on the ground, I could think of very few places I'd rather work games right now than Southern California.


Tim.

San Diego is a good place from what I've read. Lots of beaches. And any place that brings up David Wells can't be too bad.