ROAD TRIPPING

Somewhere in the middle of cattle country I've had my fill of Fern Gully which is a movie, for the 99% of you who have no idea what I'm talking about. Modern technology now offers us wireless on the bus so why not take advantage of it, since we are paying for it.

If you haven't figured out by now we are on our way down to Dallas for our spring trip. The plan was to stop at Missouri Western (Jen Bagley, a former TC Thunder teammate is the coach there) to get a practice in, on real dirt! Of course it's was raining when I call Jen to tell her we were not going to bother to stop and then as luck would have it within 30 minutes it stopped raining and the temp rose about 30 degrees. Is that a sign of things to come!

I intended to line up 5 doubleheaders but could only find 3 teams brave enough to play us so tomorrow we will spend the day in Oklahoma City watching Tennessee, Northwestern and Oklahoma play at USA Hall of Fame Stadium. That's where the College World Series is played. I thought it would be a great experience for our players to watch some Div. I ball at a great venue. Monday morning we'll stop by the Oklahoma City Bombing Site Memorial and then head down to Dallas where we will spend the week. We'll get at least three practices in before we play so hopefully we'll get the "I'm outside for the first time and acting like I've never fielded a ground ball or fly ball before blues" out of the way.

By the way, we picked up three amigo's along the way. Please let me introduce Señor Solin, Señor Gordon and Señor Swartz as the newest members of the team. Not sure what position they play yet but they look talented, don't they!

Tune in!