B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 39 – August 14, 2023 Weather: Continues to be plenty hot – 92 degrees with 47% humidity at the start of the 11:00 game, up to 96 degrees with 40% humidity at the start of the noon game (which actually got under way… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 38 – August 10, 2023 Weather: Still hot – 84 degrees at the start of the 10:00 game, with 72% humidity, the temperature rising steadily and reaching 100 degrees by late in the noon game, though the humidity did drop under 50%. Sunny… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 37 – August 7ish, 2023 B League president Jack McDermott checks in on the topic “Lottery draw and fielding an 11th player”: As you know, our rules allow drawing of players if a team has less than 10 of their own players available,… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 36 – August 3, 2023 Weather: Still hot (86 degrees at the start of the 10:00 game, climbing steadily thereafter) and pretty humid (66%) and very sunny. Occasional breezes were nice. Injured list: Gray team: Doc Hobar Green team: Jeff Broussard – recovering… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 35 – July 31, 2023 Correction: I made an error of omission in this past Thursday’s edition, Issue 34, failing to note that Larry Young was perfect at the plate in Gold’s game, going 2 for 2 with a walk. The Picayune regrets… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 34 – July 27, 2023 Weather: Maybe I’m just acclimating somewhat, but it didn’t seem quite so terribly hot today. By the noon game it was 94 degrees, with a bearable relative humidity of 33%. Blue skies throughout the day’s action. Injured list:… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 33 – July 24, 2023 Weather: Still hot – 86 degrees at the start of the 10:00 game, rising to mid-90s by the end of the day’s action. Humidity at 64% when we started, dropped to the mid-40s. Sunny throughout. Injured list: Blue… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 32 – July 20, 2023 Weather: Nothing but sunshine today. It was 86 degrees with 68% humidity at the start of the 10:00 game, and it warmed steadily, into the upper 90s by the time we finished, and in triple digits by the… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 31 – July 17, 2023 B League president Jack McDermott alerts us of a change of game times: Greetings, fellow players, Temperature forecasts are into the triple digits all of next week and most likely beyond. Heat index values rise quickly even before… Read more
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 30 – July 10ish, 2023 Correction: I misreported the play in the June 29 Green-Gold game in which Tim Bruton was thrown out at home – I wrote that it was a 9-6-2 relay, but in fact Don Solberg threw directly home to… Read more