And Patrick Lujan just put me on his Guam Sports Network page with just a little help from me. Thanks Patrick.

We won again today to take our record to 2-2. I pitched 2 and 2/3 as I went in for this guy. Ended up with 4 runs given up, 2 of them earned, 3 or 4 hits, a walk, no strikeouts. Sounds worse than it was as I was almost the winning pitcher. Score was 12-11. Found out one of the guys we picked up to play for us is from Chicago and in the Roy Hobbs Hall of Fame though I'm not sure what for. He's been playing down here for 26 years. Good ball player as he pitches, catches and plays the infield. Name is Joe Monari. Looks like he might have some American Indian in him but he's all Italian.

OK so today before our game with the Toledo Mud Dogs I had a nice chat with Ex Major League Star Bill Lee. Told him about Guam and Masters baseball at home and in Australia. Took a pic but I still have some competency problems with my phone so it wasn't on there when I went to get it. I'll find a pic of him somewhere. Didn't play in the game and we ended up losing 11-7. Left a bunch of people on base so we're now 1-2. The team we play tomorrow hasn't been doing well so hopefully I'll get to pitch and we'll end up with a .500 record. Found a good recent pic of Bill Lee. Won't say I took it.

Lost to the Livingston NJ Dodgers today 5-3. I pitched 3 innings and sucked. Altogether I gave up 2 runs though only one was earned, 2 hits, 4 walks, 1 strikeout. We had our chances but couldn't push the runs across. Tomorrow will be another day.

FSo this week it's 60+ and still playing with the Nova Scotia Monarchs. The Monarchs have a new bunch down from the cold and there are some good players here. Today we beat the St Louis Dodgers 19-3. Monarchs scored 7 runs in the third and then 8 more in the 7th so you can say we kinda bunch the runs. The game before ours at this, the Minnesota Twins spring training park, was the 70+ South Dakota Rushmores vs a San Diego team. I think the score was 5-3 and the Rushmores looked good. I talked with Doug Stormo from my hometown of Watertown SD and the great Lee Goldhammer pitched------------- Canova High School. One of the finest amateur baseball pitchers South Dakota has ever produced. A right-hander, Goldammer won 312 games and struck out 4,292 batters in a career spanning more than 35 years. He played on six state championship teams and set a state record of 13 consecutive wins (1963-69) in state tourney play. Three times he pitched and won two games on the same day in the state tourney. Was named the state's independent athlete of the year in 1971, when he was MVP of the state tourney. Also was MVP in 1967. Started playing Legion baseball at age 14 and started playing amateur (town team) baseball at age 18. Played for Canova until 1980, then moved to Mitchell and played for Mitchell Moonlite Bar until retiring in 1986. Helped South Dakota to five Men's Senior World Series titles in Phoenix. He retired in 1986. Came out of retirement in 1989 and remains an active pitcher. In 1989 he was selected by the Argus Leader as the starting pitcher on the state's all-time amateur baseball team. During high school, participated in football, baseball and track. Held school discus record.

So 2 games today as we worked ourselves into the finals of the lower division. First game was against the Houston Colt 65s. Ended up beating them 15-9 but it was tight for awhile. I pitched the 3rd through the 7th inning with me losing my no runs given up streak in the sixth. I gave up 5 runs but only one was earned. The 7th was great--only 5 pitches but I walked the first two guys of the 8th and Gary got me out of there. He finished up nicely and I was the winning pitcher and ended up the tournament with 1 earned run in 19 innings pitched. --------------------------------- Second game I didn't pitch as our junk pitcher Gary Stevens (finally learned his name) had a great-and complete game. We lost 6-5 as the New England Red Sox scored two in the bottom of the 9th. Former Major Leaguer and "Spaceman" Bill Lee beat us as he pitched from the 4th to the end of the game. So we got the Silver for the lower division. Here's my trophy. 60+ starts tomorrow.

So we played the Baltimore Baseball Club today, the team that beat us 4-1. We beat them 12-2 in 8 innings. I think we scored a run in every inning. I pitched the last 3 innings, gave up no runs on 1 hit, I think, 1 walk and no strikeouts. A run did score while I was pitching but it was charged to Gary (forgot his last name). Play the Houston Colt 65s tomorrow morning at 10:00 in the semifinals of this tournament. If we win we play for the championship at 1:30. Could be a long day. Anyway that makes for 14 scoreless innings. Longest streak I ever had.