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
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 43 – August 28, 2023 Weather: Break out the sweatshirts, boys, it actually dropped under 100 today. Felt almost miraculous to have the temperature be just 90 degrees at the start of the 11:00 game, with 55% humidity and mostly blue skies. Even… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 42 – August 24, 2023 Weather: It’s just gradations of awfulness this month. It was 90 degrees with the humidity at 56% at the start of the 10:00 game, rising to 96 degrees with the humidity down to 35% for the noon game,… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 41 – August 21, 2023 Weather: Geez Louise, when will this end? Another extremely hot day, temperature near triple digits by the time the noon game finished. Lots of sun, a bit of breeze, not the worst humidity. Injured list: Gold team: Larry… Read more