Holiday wishes for 2010

Gents,

Best holiday wishes to you and your family and good fortune to you in 2010!

On to baseball news:

The new season is soon to be upon us, We are having the league meeting at the Wilton Y at 730 January 21st.
There will be several news items to be discussed including what teams will be playing.
The Stamford Mets from last year will remain in the league as a new team. Virtually all the players on that team have seceded .
They will be paying for a team called the Brewers. I am not sure what their home field will be.
Alan Falkoff has been busy rebuilding his Stamford Mets teams roster
Bridgeport reported at the fall meeting that they were disbanding but last week they reported they believe they will field a team for the 2010 season.
The Marlins are expected to be in the league but we hope they are better organized than last year.

The schedule will be weighed next year and we will be playing the top teams 3 times each ( the Mariners, Top Hats and Cannons) and the rest two times. This will be good for us to play these teams and be at our best.

There will be a championship playoff for the top four teams in the league. The teams after that will compete for the President's Cup .

July 4th weekend
There will not be any league games played July 4th weekend. We are working on creating a small tournament with a team or two from Danbury League, Westchester and Long Island. The idea will be we can create a tourney team from players in the league. There are likely to be 2 teams from our league. I will probably run one of the teams and I hope it is mostly Red Sox players who choose to play. Another manger will run the second FFLD league team. I played against the Westchester team ( the Kensingtom Mud Hens) up at Cooperstown ( with Charlie) in the fall and they are good players, Charlie and I played with the LI guys out in Arizona. you likely recall playing the Ridgefield reds during the season and we played other Danbury guys in our fall scrimmages.
Anyway there is a lot to sort out to put this together and we are in process of working on it. But it is fun to play other opponents.
I will be meeting with the respective leagues and see if we can work out the fields etc

38 Plus league

Danbury has an 8 team league of 38 and over teams. We are thinking of entering a team of guys from our league ( the MSBLers) to compete as a team in the league. That is a saturday afternoon league. Henry Boynton will likely run that team. The idea is to roster 30 guys or so and field a team each week. I think it is a 16 game schedule. The idea is to help the league evolve into having a 38 plus division for our league. My intention is to play in a few of those games on the weekends where it is not likely I will pitch and get some at bats. let me know if you want to be included in the list of potential players. This is not meant to serve as an alternative to our Sunday games.


New Players

We have two new players joining us. Raff Bevilaqua , who has been competing in triathalons the last 2-3 years, will be playing for us. Raff had played in the league for several years and is a solid outfielder.
Tim Sticco has brought us Matt Defresco who played third base for four years at Brown

We welcome our new players.


Winter Batting Practice

We plan to start some winter BP at Batter up in Norwalk in mid January. We will plan to hit once a week for an hour thru march to help get ready . I will send a note when we are ready to start up bp.

We will use the same blog address as last season to communicate . I have renamed it Wilton Red Sox 2010


I am looking forward to a great season with you next year.

Best Regards,
Dave