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
B League Picayune Often in error, never in doubt. Volume 5, Issue 40 – August 17, 2023 Weather: Yowza, it was brutal today: 94 degrees and 51% humidity at the start of the 11:00 game, up to 99 degrees with the humidity dropping to 34% at the beginning of the third game, and up to… Read more
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