You can congratulate us now..

I know I'm a little lax in the posting department, but I had to drop in to post this...

As some of you know, I took the plunge and became head coach of Josh's baseball team for the fall season.

As luck would have it, I drafted a great group of kids. On top of that they could actually play pretty well. The team ended up winning the league for the regular season, went on won the playoff championship, and was selected to represent the league in a tournament involving the winners from several other local leagues.

That tournament was held this past week in Miami Lakes. After a weekend of games, and several days of weather delays (it was cold as crap down here), the championship game of the tournament was held this past Friday night.

Our team, the Marlins, faced off against the Yankees from Miramar Optimist. We entered the game shorthanded, as 3 of our players (including 2 pitchers) were unavailable for the game. Down to 8 players, we sent out a call to the league for help, and were able to secure a substitute player just a couple of hours before game time.

It was a hard fought battle that went into extra innings, and lasted over 3 hours. I sent to the mound 3 pitchers for the first 4 and a half innings, who had seen very little mound time this season. They pitched well and kept us in the game until our tired ace pitcher - who had pitched the night before came in and shut down the Yankee's bats. Channeling his inner Randy Johnson, he held on until a slap hit past a drawn in infield gave us the victory.

Congrats to the players from this season: Nick C, Josh, Mike, David, Nick 2, Kavon, Chase, Jose, Hunter, Ike, Andres, and our tourney fill-in Kenny. Thanks to Brent, and Leo, my assistants. Also, thanks to all the parents - your kids are all great.

See you next season - yes I know, that's only 19 days from now. (Let's see MLB keep up with that.)