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Agenda With Attachments
by Glen Dickason 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

If there are other additions or changes to the agenda, we can talk about them Saturday. I am printing 25 agenda packets with all attachments. DAs (or proxies) will get 13. Others on a first come, first served basis, so you might want to print a set if you want to ensure you or staff have them.

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Agenda
by Glen Dickason 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

Attached is the draft agenda for next Saturday’s meeting. Please let me know of additions, if needed.

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Mariners Suite
by Glen Dickason 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

We have finalized details with the details of the Mariners suite night. As per your vote, it will be Friday, Sept. 29, at T-Mobile. We will go directly to the suite. You all should have received tickets. I will bug Marc about parking passes next week. We don’t have any early time requirements. Dress the past few years has been casual since we haven’t gotten to be out on the field since Bob left. I am discussing the need for a more comprehensive meeting with Marc, but I don’t know if we will get it since he will be running two events at once (us and the presidents).

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State Meeting
by Glen Dickason 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

I have been occupied with aspects of our Friday evening (Suites for DAs – Hit It Here for presidents) and haven’t gotten a draft agenda done, yet. I am hoping to get it done Saturday and have it out on Sunday. I have some requests: Please send me your agenda items. Please let me k now how many people you are bringing for the state meeting and the umpire meeting so I can plan food. On Monday, I will decide what to bring and how much, so I need numbers by then. So far 3 and 10 have responded. I am planning food that has meat – sandwiches, wraps or pizza. If you or someone you are bringing needs something different (salad, vegetarian option) please let me know. I will also have some muffins, yogurt and coffee. If enough people want fruit, I’ll get some. I have noticed not a lot of that gets eaten. Thank you, glen

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Grants
by Glen Dickason 17 Sep '23

17 Sep '23

One of my leagues (with 77 teams and my largest challenger program) is losing its lease on the property holding their fields. They can get other land, but need grants to reconstruct fields. Does anyone know of any grants that will help construct/improve fields?

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Change In State Meeting Site
by Glen Dickason 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

Communications is everything, and I didn't communicate well enough with Bob to get the meeting site correct. The state meeting will be held at the Lake Washington School District Resource Center at 16250 NE 74th St, Redmond, WA 98052. We met there several times pre-covid and it has great meeting rooms and common area where we can all get together at lunch. I apologize for making assumptions and sending the wrong meeting room information.

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State Meeting
by Glen Dickason 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

The fall State meeting will be Saturday, Sept. 30, beginning at 9:30 a.m. We will have coffee, pastries or muffins, fruit, yogurt and water for the beginning of the meeting and lunch TBD for everyone. To help with planning, please let me know how many people you will be bringing to the meeting (including umpires) so I can purchase appropriate amounts of food, water, plates and utensils. The meeting location is the same it has been the last couple of years: Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village, 6505 176th Avenue NE, Redmond, WA 98052.

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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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