B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 53 – October 16, 2023 Weather: Another glorious October day: 60 degrees with 51% humidity at the start of the first game, up to 66 degrees and the humidity down to 35% early in the second, and nothing but blue skies throughout, the… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 52 – October 12, 2023 Weather: Another pleasant day, though not quite so spectacular as Monday: 66 degrees with 92% humidity at the start of the 10:30 game, warming gradually and the humidity lessening over the course of play; overcast until the sun… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 51 – October 9, 2023 Games of Thursday October 5 were cancelled due to overnight rain. Correction: I wrote in Issue 50 that Green’s 11-9 win over Maroon on Monday October 2 was the first extra-inning game of Session Four. Wrong! Maroon defeated… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 50 – October 2, 2023 Weather: Beautiful day: 81 degrees with 62% humidity at the start of the 10:30 game, some wispy clouds to start. A little bit of cloud cover during the 11:30 game, then sunny and a bit warmer, but with… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 49 – September 28, 2023 Games of Monday September 25 were cancelled after overnight rain left the Krieg fields unplayable. Scheduling change: We will return to 10:30/11:30/12:30 start times for games beginning this Monday October 2. Weather: Very nice today – 86 degrees… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 48 – September 21, 2023 Weather: Very muggy today, 80% humidity at the start of the 10:00 game, going along with a temperature of 81 degrees. It warmed up to 90 degrees by the end of the noon game, the humidity ticking down… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 47 – September 18, 2023 Games of Thursday September 14 were cancelled when overnight rains left the Krieg fields unplayable. Weather: Just as all the tourney players vacated town for the Worlds in Las Vegas, it got beautiful in Austin: 75 degrees with… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 46 – September 11, 2023 Department of Corrections: Well, you’re not really a full participant in the B League until I’ve gotten your name wrong in the Picayune. Fortunately, I guess, that dependably does not take very long. In the last edition I… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 45 – September 7, 2023 League president Jack McDermott checks in with “more boring stuff from the board”: Due to the number of players headed to Arizona for tournament play during the week of our proposed end of year playoffs we will be… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 44 – August 31, 2023 League president Jack McDermott checks in with a rules update: It has always been an unwritten rule that if after one extra inning the game is still tied, then game over – courtesy to waiting players. That is… Read more