Rain and Shine!

A wild weekend is over, as it's technically early Monday morning as I scribe this.

An odd Saturday afternoon of constant rain showers forced cancellations in Blythe, San Luis and Yuma. Which meant...double-headers for Sunday. The Blythe area received much more rain than we did down here in "the tri-corner", so the Blythe-San Diego double-header was played in Yuma.

As for the action, in my fatigue, I wasn't able to give the San Luis versus Saskatchewan marathon on Friday night justice. A scheduled 9 inning evening contest went 12 innings, with Stuart Champion living up to his name and delivering two huge extra-inning RBI baseknocks for San Luis. After the Silver Sox had scored three runs in the top half of the 10th, Champion re-tied the score in the bottom half with a 2 out, 2 RBI double to keep the game going. Then in the 12th, Champion knocked a chopper through a drawn-in infield to clinch the 15-14 victory for San Luis. A thrilling ballgame for all of us who stuck it out past 11pm on a breezy, chilly February night.

In Sunday's action, Team Canada got it's first W of the season, taking the first of their double-header with Yuma. San Luis swept a twin-bill from Western Canada, extending their winning streak to three. San Diego and Blythe split a nightcap double-header at Desert Sun, with San Diego putting their hitting boots on to score 14 runs in their first victory of the year in which they weren't no-hit. And, over in Palm Springs (wish I would get there this season, but don't think I will), Palm Springs got right back on the horse, winning 12-3 after dropping their first ballgame of the campaign on Saturday afternoon.

So now, we welcome somewhat of a lull in the schedule. No AWL games either Monday or Tuesday, however, San Luis will play a much anticipated exhibition game Monday night against the Mexican San Luis Algodoneros. I know that everyone can use these next two days for resting up. We're not even halfway through the AWL schedule, and it feels like the grind of the first ten days has been a 100 days.

On a positive note, I used some of our unanticipated down-time on Saturday afternoon to head on our to the casino with our Clubby, Marcus. Didn't really have any money I could afford to play, but I changed some quarters into a crisp Washington, and walked away with a Lincoln and that same Washington. Texas Tea penny machines...a good bet. Only nine lines. Really wanted to play Tailgate Party, but those slots are becoming few and far between. I could tell you where they're at in a few Laughlin properties...but you'll have to trade me some other information for that knowledge. All I know is that I'm changing my availability date on my resume to one full week after we've wrapped up here in Yuma. I'm heading to Laughlin to sit by the river and do some honest relaxing!

All for now. Should have some pictures from tommorrow's exhibition in San Luis. Everyone's expecting a large contingency to show up.