Season Start Date

Just got off the phone with Ron at the city. Our season starts on Thursday, April 12!!! We have a managers meeting next week and he plans to hand out the season schedules at that time. I told him we had a preference for later games...he said he'd take that into consideration.

New Uniforms

Because we have a bunch of new Slugs, it's time to get new uniforms. We'll be using the same logo as the last model (our little slug dude).

This time around I'm proposing we use the 100% sweatshop free American Apparel M434 Mélange JerseyShort Sleeve Gym T-Shirt. It's "a retro reinvention of the classic gym T-shirt."

Of course, we'll look much happier in our Ts than this moody man from the American Apparel website. This is a unisex shirt, which in theory should make us all look like hot models. The shirts will cost us $12.40 and will come with the slug logo on the front and a number of your choice on the back. Please check out the AE sizing chart and let me know what size shirt you need, and what number you'd like printed on the back. I am allowing duplicates, but please let me know if you object to sharing your number with another Slug. Please e-mail me your requests by April 1...so maybe we can get these shirts printed before the end of the season.

Also, I am ordering us all slugs baseball caps. They'll cost us $14 each...but since the league is cutting us a deal on league fees this season, it's almost like the hats are free.

We may just be the best dressed team in the league. Let's hope everyone else is so distracted by our sexiness that they let us kick their asses game after game.

Slugs Spring Training

Well, Slugs...it can only go down hill from here. For those of you who didn't make it out to our first practice, we totally dominated. A big thanks to Nick, coach of the Solid Gold Hits. He reserved the field for us at Tahoe Park, organized fielding drills, batting practice, even brought little wiffle balls for extra hand eye coordination practice. Then we took the field for a scrimmage and your Slugs made the Solid Gold Hits glad they won't be playing on Thursday nights. We had solid fielding all around (though Kepley had the most SportsCenter moments at short), and our bats were hot! The final score was 9-4, I believe. I was statistician for the high school golf team, but my scorekeeping skills are lacking these days. It's a good thing the league pays some dude to sit on a stool behind the plate with a dry erase board.

For the record Coach Tam owes beer to the following Slugs who made it to practice:
Judy
Matt
Melody
John
Ira
Ed
Jim
Ellen
Harrison
Christa


Coming soon to the slugsblog... new uniforms? ...it's time to buy a big boy bat ...useful information about the start of the season, as soon as I get it from the league ...and the return of player profiles.