Another IBL first

Just got home from watching Iron Man 2 and was checking the Royals Twitter page.

Saturday's game against Ottawa has already been cancelled a full 12 hours in advance. Weather man is calling for snow Saturday.

At least it saved the Fat Cats a 6 hour bus ride and a bit of cash on hotels.


Edit: 1:30 pm - Been raining all day off and on looks like all the games today got washed too. Brr its too cold for baseball today.

Royals bats were silent

The Red Sox - Royals game was over in record time this evening. I think i was home by 10:30 which is unheard of, at least in Guelph. Royals games traditionally take ages on Tuesday nights

Anyways the Royals looked awful. I think they were held to like 4-5 hits at the most and well Sean Reilly didn't exactly knock the cover off the ball for one of those hits.

Ryan Hart left a mistake up over the plate in the 1st inning to Lee Delfino and he sent it sailing over the left field fence to put Brantford up 2-0

Guelph didn't score until the 4th on a bases loaded sac fly by Kevin Hinton. The pitching was decent on both sides but you can tell its early in the season. The batter's timing were off.

I know Guelph only had one outdoor practice before this game because of some stupid city rules about keeping the sportfields closed to teams until May 1st. Maybe next year they should look at an exhibiton game or two else where or look at renting Bectel Park in Waterloo and have their pitchers throw live BP.

Stefan Strecker threw only five pitches in the 9th inning BTW. The Royals weren't exactly a patient bunch at the plate tonight. I won't even comment on the plate umpire's strikezone or shall i say lack of it.

Baycats strike late for victory

Well they managed to get one game in this weekend

The Barrie Baycats cameback after being down a lot to win 11-10 over Toronto this afternoon at the Pits (Do i start calling it Dominico Field yet?)

I don't have all the details but at least baseball is back, which is good cause I can't take much more hockey since the leafs have been golfing for a month already.

If its Opening Weekend ....

Well so much for that idea. Rain has forced the cancellation of the Season Opener in Guelph

Funny as i'm typing this its sunny here.


League rules require teams to give ample notice. Reading on the Royals site it looks like it was called around noon.



Edit: Game to be made up on Tuesday night at 7:30 pm

League doing live scoring

I saw this on the Royals website, so I hope its league wide;

The Guelph Royals and the Inter County Baseball League have reached an agreement with Pointstreak.com Inc. and are pleased to announce that Pointstreak will provide real-time baseball scoring for the 2010 season

Now Royals fans will be able to track their favorite team live from anywhere via the internet.

Royals President Jim Rooney remarked “The Royals wish to engage their fans, both those in the park and those who follow us from afar. Pointstreak provides the best professional network to connect with our fans.

Twins continue to build with help from former Guelph Silvercreeks

Twins skipper Scott Van de Valk used to coach in Guelph so i guess its just pure co-incidence that Mississauga traded for Elliott Shrive. Elliott used to play for Scott in Guelph. Apparently there are a few more Guelphites trying to jump ship to join him in Mississauga


Graeme Copeland and Kyle Langille

Copeland played for Kitchener last year to avoid Royal's manager Kevin Hinton's bench

Langille didn't see much action judging by his stats. Although i recall him getting a big hit in game seven against Brantford last year.

Mississauga will be better under Scott and if they find some pitching they could surprise a few teams.

I never liked Adeo , i didn't like him when he was in charge of Hamilton either.

I'm going to guess it was his call on those ugly uniforms. Funny Hamilton's look similar.

Welcome the Ottawa Fat Cats

Well its not the worse mascot idea ever and at least its marketable.

The cat looks like the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.

Typical Ottawa region colors ala Senators and 67's

Apparently the Mascot is named Grape

As well, I hope its a hit with the kids.