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Use of portable mounds for State Major Baseball Tournament
by pat.ryan＠wad2llb.org 22 Jun '24

22 Jun '24

All, The host league for the State Major Baseball tournament uses portable mounds on their fields. The mounds they use are True Pitch model 302 mounds. These are on Little League's approved list. They apparently just bought the mounds this year so they are in great shape (not cheap either). Tournament rules require that for games beyond District play the use of portable mounds must be approved by the Tournament Committee. For that approval they want to see concurrence from all of the districts participating in the tournament. I have sent you a separate email with instructions on filling out a Google Form to voice your approval or denial of using portable mounds. Please take a few minutes to fill out the form so that I can let Western Region (and all of you) know what your decision is. Thanks, Pat ======================================= Pat Ryan District Administrator Little League Baseball and Softball Washington District 2 2686 NE Lillehammer Lane Poulsbo, WA 98370 360-779-1824 home 360-271-5193 mobile 888-300-6193 fax <mailto:Pat.Ryan@WAD2LLB.org> Pat.Ryan(a)WAD2LLB.org <http://www.wad2llb.org2/> www.WAD2LLB.org "If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people." Old Chinese Proverb =======================================

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Good Article about the 8-10 Baseball State
by jarel＠jpiworldwide.com 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

Hi All, As promised the regional paper did an article on the 8-10 Tournament in today's edition. https://columbiabasinherald.com/news/2023/jul/31/othello-hosts-baseball-tour ney/ Enjoy Regards JP DA WA5/13

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Mariners Suite Revisited
by Glen Dickason 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Nothing seems easy in dealing with the Mariners since Covid (which coincidentally is when Bob left). Marc has booked the president’s event at the Hit It Here Café group area for the 29th. Apparently he hadn’t put that one on the list when he agreed to get a suite for us on the 29th. Now he has realized there is a conflict since we are also invited to the president’s meeting. Our state meeting is scheduled for Saturday morning and afternoon. We combined the state meeting and Mariner’s event over a decade ago to make it easier for the Eastern Washington folks. So, please vote for one of the following options. If the vote is too divided, I will put up the top two for a revote. I have put them in chronological order. Option 1 – Have DAs in a Suite on the 28th and then have back for the president’s event the next night (29th). Option 2 - DAs and guests stop in at the beginning of the president’s event to hear the dates with the Presidents and head to a Suite. Option 3 - The Friday night event will be only for Presidents and Marc can tell us the dates in our Suite. Option 4 – DAs attend the president’s event on the 29th and come to the suite the next night (30th). You can send your vote to this email address as a reply (and tolerate 13 emails in a day or so) or directly to me at gpdickason(a)comcast.net

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Mariners
by Glen Dickason 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

It’s official. We will be hosted by the Mariners Friday, Sept. 29. Not in the owner’s box – but in a suite. I have asked for a real meeting. I need to send Mark a list of district administrators. I think the only change is in District 10. Please let me know so I can get an accurate list to Mark for invitations. You can use my personal email if it doesn’t need to be on the group chat. gpdickason(a)comcast.net. Interesting how memory works, however. When he told me he couldn’t get the owner’s box, so we could pretty much have any day we wanted, I told him we’d stick with “the usual” last Friday of September. I was sure we had always met on the last Friday of September, but I was really wrong. It turns out that only three times have we had the last Friday in September. – 2010, 2021 and 2022. Almost always since 1992 it has been the second Friday in September. I only have records in my electronic calendar since 2009, and don’t want to dig through boxes to find my calendars before that. I do remember that the first meeting took place at Sneakers in the off season in about 1988. From 1989-1991, we met in various place (including the Rainier Club)s on week nights. In 1992 with Jeff Smulyan in his last year as owner, we met in the Owner’s box, where we remained every year except the first year of Safeco Field, until 2019. Following is a personal anecdote – feel free to skip. I had my son with me when we met and had dinner in the room just off the locker room (media room now). We had ribs. Ken Griffey snuck in, sat beside my son, and ate some ribs. He later took him out on the field and played a short game of catch as a reward for sharing with him. My son was a 6th grader, so it would have been 1991. I know it was a weeknight because he was tired the next day. He was almost asleep and the teacher asked him what was wrong. Ernie told him about the evening he had add with the Mariners and the teacher told him to go ahead and take a nap. It doesn’t look (from my calendars) as if we linked the state meeting and Mariners until around 2010. We tended to meet in mid to late October in the home area of the district hosting the major baseball tournament (also known as the only baseball tournament until 1993).

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9-11 Baseball State - WE HAVE A WINNER
by salterfamily8 02 Aug '23

02 Aug '23

Ladies and Gentlemen,It is my absolute pleasure to inform all of you that we have our 9-11 Baseball State Champ!!Congrats to D12 Richland National Little League!!!!They defeated D9 Bellvue Nation 3-2 in 6 innings. It was an absolute pleasure to host this tournament. I had an amazing time getting to know your teams this past week. Kim,There is first place medal headed your way!!Also, you may see a video of the D12 coaches dumping the entire water jug over the top of my head. They caught me as I was handing out T-shirts. :-)See you all in October!!Susie TuckerDA WA 11Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone

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