Rangers In Unfamiliar Territory

Posted by on August 1, 2011 No comments

The Chandler Rangers Had a roughy night last night with 2 rain delays and came out flat. Not what you want to do against the #1 team in the country. They lost 8-0. 7 walks and 2 hit batsmen gave the San Diego Show 9 free passes and that was the game. A couple of base running mistakes and a lack of timely hitting handed the Rangers their first ever shut out.

Hats off to the Show. They had to play in the same conditions and came out guns blazing to take a big first inning lead. They showed why they were number one.

Today the Rangers try to get it back on track against the Georgia Roadrunners, at 2:45PM EST.

Game 1 – rain delay – update

Posted by on July 31, 2011 No comments

Waiting for weather to clear. Score cast will start as soon as game does.
All clear given, players returning to field. Start to warm up for a third time. That has to be good for the players right?

Game 1 – Rangers vs The Show

Posted by on July 31, 2011 No comments

Getting ready to play the show, it has been a trip. The game ahead of us is a strange 1-0 affair, that is taking a long time because lots of guys are getting on but no one is scoring.

Then we had a rain delay.

We will probably start 2 hours late.

Parade

Posted by on July 31, 2011 No comments

Players line up to parade the field.
9′s, 11′s, and 13′s. These are all super NIT champions.

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Your Chandler rangers…

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Elite 32

Posted by on July 31, 2011 No comments

Here in Orlando.

Opening ceremonies streamed live at: Live Streaming

Games will be score cast live:

Tonights game will be scorecasted using iScore. The HTML (basic) website link is: http://data.iscorecentral.com/iscorecast/htmlplayer.php?c=F5C0213527

The fancy Flash Player is:

http://data.iscorecentral.com/iscorecast/player.html?c=F5C0213527

Off To Florida

Posted by on July 29, 2011 Comments Off

This is the craziest Month for us with Baseball. First, there’s the Pitch, Hit, & Run stuff. Amazing. Matt’s run at the little league state title, (amazing).

And now we pack up the family and head to Florida, so the Chandler Rangers can compete in the USSSA Elite 32 World Series.


Chandler Rangers Team Photo

I’ll be tweeting updates @scottnovis of you can go to my twitter page and click on the follow me button.

I finally understand Twitter

Posted by on July 18, 2011 No comments

I have to confess that I never understood twitter. I knew it was SMS (short messaging system) based but why? All the buzz on blogs like lifehacker and gizmodo and engadget all talked about desktop applications, or apps for your iPhone or iPad. I tried it a couple of times, but there was nothing I could do with twitter that I could not do better with a blog, or email. Tumblr is simple and clean and effective. Facebook is way more popular to most of the people I know and easier to understand.

But I did see lots of celebs using twitter… Like their one personal PR channel, but I’m not famous and no one really cares what I have to say in 140 characters or less so what good is it?

Then I tried to send a group text to 24 people…the result? A big fat FAIL! That’s what. You can’t do it. Even more depressing, I got myself caught in tech no mans land. I use google apps for everything. Google supports Microsoft exchange format. iPhone supports Microsoft exchange format. So now I have google apps integrated with my iPhone and it rocks EXCEPT I can’t get my google groups to flow through to my iPhone. This means that creating texting groups on my iPhone means I’m buying an app. Sigh… Really?

And then.. AT&T won’t let you send a group text to more than 10 people. Seriously.

And then I learned something about twitter. You don’t need a computer. In fact you can sign up for twitter right from your phone. And it’s simple.

Now I know why 10947462786468618 people use twitter. It’s the network marketing (re pyramid scheme) of communication. If I create a twitter account with my phone. And my friends create a twitter account with their phone and FOLLOW me. Every time I send a text message to 40404 – everyone who follows me gets that “tweet”.

In short, I can create a text distribution network using twitter that is almost limitless. Forget the PC and the apps, once you connect your phone to a twitter account, you and your friends can use it as a sort of public broadcast system. If everyone in the group follows everyone else then it becomes like a public Internet chat room.

That’s some powerful stuff.

I started using it to keep my baseball team up to speed with important information while on a travel tournament and 90% of the parents signed up. So far everyone has gotten my texts and using retweets I can take messages sent to me and I can share them with everyone else. The only thing I don’t like about it, is that twitter is not private like email. At least I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.

But for me, I can now see how twitter can be used as an awesome group communication tool. Just don’t tweet and drive.

Lots of Buzz

Posted by on July 14, 2011 No comments

Ryan’s Catch was featured on a number of websites, including

Yahoo Sports: Big League Stew
MLB.com: Ball Boy Makes Sick Grab
Huffington Post/AOL: Kid Makes Outstanding Diving Catch
KMLE 108 Country: Ball Boy Makes Great Catch At Home Run Derby
WKDQ 99.5: Kid Makes Amazing Catch at MLB Home Run Derby

All star game

Posted by on July 12, 2011 No comments

Questions:
How do they determine the home team?
How do they decide dh vs pitcher hits?

Ryan wins it all

Posted by on July 12, 2011 No comments

You probably know the rest of the story by now. Ryan won the National Pitch Hot & Run championship. But his real prize may have been getting caught on camera laying out to snag a gold ball hit by Robinson Cano, this years home run derby champion.

Pictures and links will be coming.