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CYB News & Announcements
Thanks All Star Managers and Coaches!
Contact: president@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2008-06-29
CYB appreciates all of our great managers and coaches, but none more than those who have volunteered to give up even more of their time and energy by participating in the All Star tournaments.
Without these coaches, the teams could not exist and the kids would not get to play.
Please remember to thank them for their hard work and dedication!
To keep up with the accomplishments of CYB's 2008 All Star teams, click on the link below.
CYB All Star Tournament Results and Schedules
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CYB All Star Teams Shine in San Diego North County Section Tournaments
Posted: 2008-06-29
CYB All Star teams in the Pinto thru Pony 13 Divisions completed a phenomenal week of competition in Fallbrook, winning 3 Section Titles and narrowly missing a record 4th championship.
In the senior circuit, Steve Whitley's Pony 13's got off to a hot start winning their 1st 2 games to set up a crucial game against perenniel Pony Division powerhouse, Vista. In this big game, Addison Domingo came up big , hurling a brilliant complete game to lead the local 9 to a thrilling 2-1 victory. On championship Saturday, CYB lost the first half of a twin-bill to arch-rival La Costa, but came back to beat the southern rivals 9-3 behind great pitching by Caleb Whitley and Brian Thompson.
In the Bronco Division, Manager Guy Sabala's team pulled off what is believed to be a 1st ever accomplishment in CYB history by winning each of their 5 tournament games in "mercy" fashion. The heroic performances leading to this dominating performance are too numerous to mention.
The Mustang Stars, led by co-managers Todd Angel and Steve Emery, also had an unbeaten run through Fallbrook, but not without a dramatic moment. After winning their first 3 games in dominating fashion, the Mustangers found themselves in an old-fashioned donnybrook on Saturday against rival La Costa. The thriller see-sawed back and forth with the locals taking a 6-5 lead into the 6th and final frame. Refusing to say die, the southerners pushed across 3 big runs to take a seemingly commanding 8-6 lead. CYB battled back though, scoring a run and getting another man to second with two out. This brought starting pitcher Ethan Emery to the mound, and the count moved to 3-2 as hands clenched among the faithful from both teams. In the tournament's biggest single moment, Emery blasted the next pitch over the center field fence for a 2-out, 2-run, 3-2 walkoff game winning HR. Final score, CYB 9, La Costa 8. CYB again beat La Costa on Sunday, in more dominating fashion, to claim the tourney crown.
CYB's Pinto Black All Stars, managed by Rhett Larimer, lost their first game of the tournament and moved into the loser's bracket, immediately creating a huge challenge for themselves. After this, they proved that they were up to the challenge, winning 5 straight games to advance to championship Sunday against unbeaten La Costa. Needing to win 2 games on Sunday to win the championship, the Pintos staged a fierce 6th-inning rally to forge a 5-run lead and win game 1, forcing a previously unimaginable shot at the championship, with just one more win. The second half of the twin-bill was the most dramatic of the tournament, and the local heroes staged a thrilling 5-run rally in the bottom of the 5th to move within a single tally. In the 6th, CYB turned up the defense, retiring the La Costans 1-2-3, and came up in the bottom of the 6th needing 1 to tie and 2 to win. La Costa proved a great opponent though, and with great defense held the local 9 to a single run, stranding the winning run. In the first extra frame, the La Costans scored a single run and it looked like CYB could claim the crown with a solid rally. Again though, La Costa came up with some good defense to hold the locals at bay. With the tieing and winning runs on base, La Costa recorded the final out and CYB claimed the runner-up spot.
Congratulations to all 4 of these fantastic teams for their incredible performances and bringing "Cbad Time" to Fallbrook for the championship weekend. All 4 teams will now advance to second round tournaments, with Pinto, Mustang and Bronco playing in Ramono and Pony 13 in Chula Vista. Good luck to all of the teams!
Pinto San Diego Region Bracket
Mustang San Diego Region Bracket
Bronco 11 San Diego Region Bracket
Bronco San Diego Region Bracket
Pony 13 San Diego Region Bracket
Pony North San Diego Section Bracket
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Fall Registration Now Open
Contact: registrar@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2008-06-05
Registration for the Fall season is now open. Click on the link below to sign up now.
Registration dates are as follows:
1) Early Registration (discounted pricing) ends July 14
2) Regular Registration (normal pricing) starts July 15 and ends August 9
3) Late Registration (waiting list) starts August 10 and ends October 1
Player Assessments are August 16 for Pinto thru Pony Divisions with first practices on August 30.
REGISTER NOW
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Closing Day Features Championship Games
Contact: vpops@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2008-06-05
Championship games and closing ceremonies were held on Saturday, June 7th in the Pinto, Mustang, Bronco and Pony Divisions. See the Division News Page for the highlights.
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Information for All Star Parents
Posted: 2008-06-11
CYB held its annual information meeting for team parents on Tuesday, June 10th. Information presented at the meeting can be found at the link below.
All Star Parent Information
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Parent Surveys
Contact: president@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2008-06-05
End of season surveys have been emailed to all parents. We will greatly appreciate if you can take a few minutes to complete the simple process by clicking on the link in the email that you receive.
The survey will be contained in an email sent from "info@cminformation.com." The title of the survey is "Carlsbad Youth Baseball Survey (Please Participate)"
Survey responses will be used to help us assess and make plans for improvements in our program.
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CYB Elects Officers in Annual Meeting
Contact: president@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2008-06-10
CYB conducted its annual meeting and election of officers on Tuesday, June 10th at Harding Community Center. Elected officers for 2008/2009 are:
President - Tom Watson
VP Administration - Lisa Pahl
VP Operations - Bill Morrison
Treasurer - John Wood
Player and Coach Agent - John Stimson
Secretary - Tom Saftig
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Tips for Receiving CYB Emails
Contact: webadmin@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2008-01-11
As we are starting to use our online system more for communications purpose, we are finding that some people have trouble receiving our email messages or accessing the website links in the messages. Here are a couple of tips that could help to minimize problems.
1) Add the following addresses to your email address book. This should prevent your email spam filter from rejecting our emails
info@cminformation.com
info@cminotification.com
no-reply@cmiregistration.com
2) Use one of the following website browsers
PC - Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox (2 and above), and Opera (9 and above) on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Apple/Mac - Mozilla Firefox (2 and above) and Apple Safari.
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Hall of Fame Memories
Contact: president@carlsbadyouthbaseball.org, Posted: 2007-10-27
As Yogi Berra used to say, the great thing about baseball is that half of it is 90% mental.
Jerry Coleman is another lovable baseball figure, especially in San Diego. Long-time San Diego fans will never forget Jerry's legendary "Colemanisms," those sayings that were so ridiculously humorous that Sports Illustated dedicated a feature article to them. I love Jerry Coleman.
At the risk of sounding Colemanesque, I will claim that the best thing about baseball is that it lets you remember and forget.
The forgetting part is pretty good. When I go to a baseball game I totally forget a lot of my problems, the frightening world that we live in, and my obligations. All of these are put into a time capsule until the game is over. That's a good feeling.
Remembering is even better though. I have a long list of memories in baseball. Here are a few:
1) the first time I asked my Dad if we could go to see a Padre game back around 1965 and he said yes. I was 9 then.
2) staying awake in my bed in the dark, with the radio on, listening to the Padres play the Hawaii Islanders at midnight our time.
3) the song my mom made up as we were watching the Padres in a 16-inning thriller in Westgate Park.
4) striking out all 18 batters I faced in a 6-inning game at age 12; our team went 32-0 that season.
5) losing in the All Star's that same season, 3-2; I gave up a 2-run triple with 2 outs in the bottom of the 6th to lose it.
6) walking home crying all the way after that All Star loss.
7) The Dodgers and Don Drysdale humiliating my Padres 19-0 in 1971
8) The Padres sweeping the Dodgers in a 4-game series in Dodger staduim in the final week of the same season to knock them out of the race.
9) Hearing in disbelief when Roberto Clemente's airplane crashed on a relief mission
10) 1984
11) New Padre owner Ray Kroc announcing on the PA system that the Padres were playing the worst brand of baseball he had ever seen
12) Tony Gwynn
13) Pitching my high school team to a 1st-round playoff win over the defending CIF champions with a hamstring pull so bad I could barely walk.
14) 1998
15) Taking both of my kids to see the Padres over the last 2 decades.
16) The day Tony Gwynn announced his retirement, and my son and I looked at each other and decided we were going to the Hall of Fame
I have so many memories of baseball that I could spend a very long time to write them down. But, the most important are recent memories and involve my son, Eric.
Two springs ago, when he was 13, I was helping to coach his Pony team and we were heading with a group of his buddies to see the Padres after our game. I looked all over the place for him, and finally found him and two of his 14-year old buddies at the tot lot riding furiously on the little horsies with the springs. It was a great race, and I learned from this that these big boys were still just little children. That made me feel good, as I really don't want him to grow up too fast.
This past spring, my son's team was fortunate enough to win the Pony championship and that was pretty cool since none of his teams had ever gotten close before. I asked him if he wanted to play the next season, and he told me "no, baseball is your dream dad, not mine." At first that kind of hurt, and then I realized this meant that he is growing up, and is learning to follow his own dreams. That made me feel good.
This all brings me to my most recent and probably most important memory, which is our Hall of Fame trip last summer. As noted above, Eric and I had been planning this since 2001. At the time, we thought it would include not only Tony and Cal, but Mark McGwire as well. Mark hurt his chances with the steroid testimony.
Our trip was fabulous. We visited our friends, the Mohnacky's (former CYB Prez and long-time CYB manager) in Ohio, saw the Indians play the Red Sox at Jacobs field, stayed a night in Williamsport, PA and saw the Little League World Series site and museum.
We saw the Red Sox play the Orioles at Fenway Park. Fenway is amazing! We saw our friends the Tiltons in both Cooperstown and Massachussetts. We ran into our CYB friends the Barreras in the Red Sox team store. We saw Roger Clemens give up 8 runs in the 2nd inning and then saw the Yankees score 8 runs of their own, in Yankee Stadium. 16 runs in 1 inning. Never saw that before, even in Pinto!
We spent 13 days, saw 5 states, and 7 stops. I saw a friend from college for the 1st time in over 20 years. We saw the Boston Common, Statue of Liberty and Times Square.
All of those things were fantastic, but paled in comparison to our main attraction, the visit to Cooperstown.
We stayed at Yogi Bear campground, about 20 miles outside of the village, and had a great time there. We spent parts of 4 days in the village, which is both picturesque and nostalgic. Walking down main street is like at Disneyland, except that everything is about baseball. The Hall of Fame museum is fantastic.
We saw nearly a hundred hall of famers during our stay. We got to turn double plays with Ozzie Smith and Ryne Sandberg. We met the "human vacuum cleaner," Brooks Robinson, Earl Weaver and George Brett.
Like 70,000 others, the Hall of Famers that we really cared about were Tony and Cal, of course especially Tony for us. During our stay we learned that Tony is loved around the country almost as much as he is in San Diego. And the same with Cal. Even though there were a lot more Baltimorians than San Diegans in Cooperstown, the adulation for these players was equal, and at an alltime high.
Although from different backgrounds, these players are cut from a common cloth of humility and hard work. In an ESPN interview, Tony referred to his daily routine as "boring," and followed later by saying "I guess it's not so boring if it gets you to this podium."
Our kids can learn important things from these men.
- That good people who do the right things get rewarded.
- That teamwork gets noticed as much as writing your initials on your shoes.
- And that to be really great at something, you have to love what you're doing.
The memories of this trip with my son will be with me forever, and I know with him as well. He's OK with the fact that baseball will always be my dream, and I know that baseball will forever be a place where we can go together to forget our troubles and to remember the best moments of life.
Thinking about these memories just reinforces that baseball is a lot like life. As soon as you think you've seen it all, you see something different. As soon as you think all is lost, you win. As soon as you think you're unbeatable, you have a setback. And if things didn't go your way today, or this season, there is always hope for tomorrow.
Tom Watson
President, CYB
PS - if you'd like to see more photos from our Hall of Fame vacation, visit the CYB Photo Gallery by clicking "PHOTOS" at the top of the page.
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Fall Schedule 2008
Board Meeting
08 Jul 2008
Fall Schedule 2008
Fall Regular Registration Begins
15 Jul 2008
Fall Schedule 2008
New Board Takes Over
01 Aug 2008
full calendar
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