Past, Present and Future Teammates and Opponents (kinda like the Ghosts of Scrooge): As the dust settles on Christmas Day, may this message find you all well, and the hope that you all had the best of Christmas and Hannukah today, and all the best for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, of course f...
that Hal Steinbrenner is so embarrassed, so utterly mortified after the way his team lost both the world series and now, Juan Soto, that he has decided to move the Yankees to Oakland for 2026.
Ladies & Gents: There was some hope that in this off season, we'd see a good-sized group of players coming up from the 55s, which, with free agents, would give the division two new teams. Right now, the division appears to have one team, not two. Jim Jasiewicz and I were taxed with creating a new team...
Due to rain the pool play was limited to 4 games. Team Albany ended that 2-2.. The 2 games we won were by the 10 run mercy rule and the losses were also.Friday morning found us rated 16 out of 16 in the AAA bracket, this was a miscalculation as we should have been near the top of AA. The team we faced was 4-0. We s...
Team Albany 1-1 faced undefeated Midwest9 2-0.. Team Albany 10 run ruled them 13-3. Thanks Brad and Ralph for stopping by to support us. Scheduled to play 0-3 Blue Ridge Rangers today, rain forecast today.
Two very tired teams in the midst of great weeks met at Jet Blue Stadium on Friday night. The Cubs and Banana Sharks came of huge upsets in the blazing Florida sun on Saturday afternoon. The Cubs were owners of a 12-7 victory over the Orlando Royals, and the Banana Sharks beat the heavily favored Orlando...
Yesterday 65+ Team Albany.... a team Mike and Dave assembled..consisting of 5 CDMSBL players.(Mike Labarge,Dave Plew,Bill Chichester, Mark Josefski and Jeff Martin).,4 players from a 60s NH team (Labarge,Chichester and Plew have been with the last 2 years), several from the Free agent list and...
On a scorching Friday afternoon, the Cubs took on the Puerto Rico Orioles for the right tog o to Jet Blue Stadium for a game under the lights at Fenway South. Albany teams have run into the PR Orioles quite a few times in games both in the round robin and in the playoffs over the years. The Albany teams have m...
The Albany Cubs took a tough loss in Game 1 of the Quad A playoffs on Thursday morning. The game was a pitching duel with Mike Girard going up against "hired gun" Willie Lastra. Willie is a long time tournament pitcher from Venezuela. He has a simple but effective repertoire with a pinpoint accurate fas...
The Cubs played their 4th round robin game yesterday at Terry Park against last year's 3rd place finisher in the AAA division -- St. Louis Grays. The game was shortened to just 6-1/2 innings due to the mercy rule, as the Cubs pounded out a 13-1 win over the Grays. The Cubs slammed 17 hits in their 6 innings...
Game 1 saw the Cubs facing a stacked team from Orlando. The Cubs had to balance the need of winning the game versus saving pitching for the playoffs. Jim Konstantakis took the ball for the Cubs and kept the Orlando Royals baffled for the first 4 innings, giving up just one unearned run in the 3rd inning. T...
In the first round robin game in the 2024 Roy Hobbs World Series, the Defending AAA champs met up with a familiar old foe: the Maine Black Bears. The Maine Squad played a 10:00 am game at the Jet Blue complex against the St.Louis Grays (last year's 3rd place team in the AAA division). The Grays prevailed i...
On yet another glorious Fall Day at the A Diamond this morning the Matinee Division wrapped up the 2024 season with our final game of the year. We have been blessed with picture-perfect weather all year long and today was no exception as conditions were ideal for our final game, in our most successful s...
