More Award Polls

I changed my mind!

I'm going to make this a bit more democratic and open up the first 3 awards to a team vote. The Golden Gloves are still open for public voting, but the other 3 awards will be player-votes only (anybody who has played a game this season for our team can do so).

The awards are self-explanatory. "Most Improved" can mean improved over the course of this season, or from last season to this one.

One vote only on the first three polls. Up to four votes each for the golden gloves.

We've had 21 players/subs on our team this year so that is the max number of votes for the MVP, MIP, and Rookie polls.

Awards! Vote!

Hey Team,

There happen to be a number of awards to give out each season. No, it's not something that you can hold or frame on a wall that is made out of gold. But it is a little digital image that will appear on a player's profile on the nscsl website. And that is permanent, so it's better! I suppose you could print out your player's profile page and hang that in your office if you like. That would work too.

Anyway, the awards to be given this year are:

1. Most Valuable Player
2. Rookie of the Year
3. Most Improved Player
4-6. Golden Glove (3 of these!)

I'll pick the first three, and we'll do another fancy poll for the three golden glove awards. Vote for up to 4 players, and top 3 get the golden (well, digital) gloves. Voting is open to both players and our fans, which are many.

The poll ends Saturday. Awards announced on Sunday.

Comments?

Fall Ball

Anybody interested in playing Fall league this year? We've never played in the fall as of yet, but coaches from the other two BBC teams informed me that they could some extra players to round out their teams, if we don't have a full one.

Comment here or contact me if you are interested. Registration might be too late for a new team at this point, so speak up soon.

Details are here. Basically it is 6 weeks of double-headers starting at the end of August (except labor day weekend) at Pioneer Park in Little Canada. It will probably cost somewhere between $30-40 depending on roster size.

Playoffs Update

Looks like we'll be starting at Noon, this Saturday and will play 2-3 games, ending by 3:20 at the latest. Sunday could start as early as 1:30 and go until as late as 8:20 (but probably 7:10). There really aren't that many games on Sunday, just 2 or 3 likely. If we win our Saturday games, we won't start until 3:50 on Sunday.

Check out the bracket details here.

Can everybody make it that hasn't informed me otherwise as of yet? I have 11 guys at this point.

2009 NSCSL Playoffs

The playoff brackets are being formed and are available to be viewed here. Brackets will be finalized after this Sunday's games. For now it looks like Saturday, Aug 1st will be at Central Park, starting at 10:50am, and going until about 3:30 (3-4 games).

Sunday afternoon will be at Pioneer Park where they have fields-for-grown-ups with 300-foot fences. Sunday games will start as early as 1:30 and go possibly as late as 8:30.

Keep these dates open, but respond if you can't make it!

All-Star Matt

Congrats to Matt Erickson, who will be representing us at the C/D All-Star game on Sunday July 26th, 6pm at Vadnais Heights Community Park. If you are in the Vadnais Heights area, go out and show your support!

















Matt Erickson eats C-leaugers for breakfast.

Sack Race Might Be in Order

I just received the disappointing word from the league director that the All-Star team roster will be cut from 15 down to 12 this year. That means each team will now only send ONE player. Seeing as there is currently a voting tie between the Erickson and the Parnell, this could be interesting if it continues.

What are your tie-breaker ideas?