Rat Season 2010
 

We start up in Mississippi tomorrow. When is everyone else getting started up?

First HS games are on February 15 in Alabama.. Scrimmages until then.

First games allowed for OhioHSAA baseball and fastpitch softball is Monday, March 29th.

MTD, Sr.

You must be in South MS. We don't start until the 20th in the North 1/2. They just started after school practices this week.

Scrimage canceled tomorrow

Season begins 2/24 in Louisiana

I'm in NE MS. D-3,D-2, and Juco starts tomorrow.

Been wanting to get into college for several years and haven't been able to find the right connection. Had one GOOD chance a couple of years ago and called a tourney rather than making a meeting.


Didn't have college on my mind when I answered.

check your pm

Colleges around here were supposed to start this week but the weather has been awful.

High schools can play their first game on March 19th.

College starts in the metrodome pretty soon...if they haven't started already.

Scrimmages start this week in SC. Games begin 2/27 in my neck of SC.

Washington State...
 

In theory (see Northwest weather), Community College practices have started, with games starting Feb 27.
High School practices start on March 1, with mandatory minimum 10 practice days. So, games start on or about March 15.

Someday, hopefully, I'll actually have to worry about that CC schedule.

Duck Season......................

Nimrod.

:D

Hey Rich, if you dont want to play wabbit season-duck season with me that fine. There are plenty of other guys here that will..... ha

High school season in Iowa doesn't start until May 24.

You missed spelled that - It should read DEER season - and it's closed!!:D

I know NAIA baseball has started in mid Jan...

I've got a NAIA DH this Friday.

Where?

I can't help it....
 

wrabbit season!

I have a DH in Ohio 2/27, sadly I can't go south with them after the DH!

In Tennessee

Most of our games in MN kick off in April...but that can very easily get pushed back a few days or up to a week depending on the rain and yes, snow...Many college teams in MN go south to start their schedule in March. The high school league in MN also did something that doesn't allow teams to go further than 600 miles away...which I don't think gets them too far south to get away from the cool weather...it might I guess. Some will get a few games in the metrodome as well. There are teams in MN that don't get much of a home schedule since the ice doesn't even melt off of the lakes until May in some places so they play nearly their entire schedule away.

Practice starts March 1. However we got 30" of snow Fri-Sat and another 20" is expected to start today. All that snow will be here a long time.
This is a record setting winter for snowfall in MD.

Nimrod actually means hunter -- it took on its current meaning when Bugs Bunny used it in reference to Elmer Fudd and everyone assumed it meant "idiot."

I've met a few people named Nimrod and one currently is a star point guard for the #2 big division basketball team in the state.

Hey Nimrod!
 

<a href="http://www.prepsportswear.com/school/us/Michigan/Watersmeet/Watersmeet-Township-School-Nimrods.aspx?SchoolID=206323">Watersmeet Township Schools Merchandise</a>

Get yourself reciprocal certification in Michigan, drive up and call a hoops game, Rich. It's only 300 miles from Madison.

Less than 48 hours to first pre-season game.

Have a great game.

Started preseason tourney 2/27 with a DH - no issues, decent weekend weather for a change.

Previous weekend, did a showcase-style scrimmage run by a scouting website. Paired up with a guy who will start doing HS ball next year - has been doing LL and rec ball for about 4 years. Nice enough guy, and with some mechanics tweaking, will be a decent HS umpire. However, was a bit taken aback by this statement in our pregame: "I've got my clicker and my plate brush to dust off the rubber between innings!" Sigh...I told him that's great, but please don't clean off the rubber in a HS game...

Glad to see that that happens in your part of the state, too. LOL

Yeah, there are still some young guys cleaning the rubber between 1/2 innings...it annoys me, I bring it up once in the pregame if it comes up...and try not to worry about it again..

I see that too. More with brushing off 2B after a slide into the bag. The ones that do it are ASA umps and it's accepted and prefered in SB - so I flinch and wring my hands and just let them be. After all, it IS a plate brush and there is no deciding factor in whether or not it is home plate or the pitcher's plate. :confused:

First game is March 18.

Had DH last thursday and first varsity game on friday.
First year as a varsity umpire, great joy!.

Good luck and have fun. Don't suck.

We still have frost and snow on the ground.
 

We open up on the 18th of March baseball in Nebraska Big Red Land