Getting Fields In Shape

Another work day at South Meck is planned for this Saturday, 2/1, starting at 9:00 am, weather permitting, for any South Meck baseball supporter that wishes to participate and assist the Sabre coaching staff. The backstop horizontal rails will be resanded and repainted and a batting cage net will be hung for the newest batting cage just resently installed which will make a total of 2 batting cages now on site at the baseball field. Hope to see some Sabre playerpower and fatherpower in full swing!

 

Sabre, you guys have a great field. Now why doesn't SM spend a few dollars to pave or at least grade and level that pothole filled drive from the school parking lot back to the baseball field? I don't think anything has been done to it since I went to school there.

 

Braves, I would like to make a comment for the record. We loved those trees too. The original plans for the gym renovations at MP called for an auxilary gym to be built extending from the newly finished box office of the current gym. That being the case, all of the trees would have been cut down. When the budget was cut and the aux gym axed, the new plans left the trees. Best as we can tell, based on conversations with Clewis and Wimberly, the site guys were working off old plans that still showed aux gym. So they showed up at 6:00 am one morning and started grading. Before anyone knew it, the trees were gone. I figure those trees were planted in 1951, so when our grandkids are playing there, they might have something similar to look at. But the good news is the contractor is going to put in some new trees (read saplings) to make up for their mistake.

 

Papabear: The “pothole filled drive” issue at South Meck was taken care of back in the summer of 2002. The South Meck drive, starting at the gym, was smoothed out with dirt and paved down to the baseball field. You can no longer drive up on the hillside to park above the baseball field (or sit in your car to watch the games) but have to park in the lower parking lot beside the batting cages and walk into the SM baseball field from this area. SM, however, lost a lot of parking spaces up on the hillside due to this remodeling but was highly advised to do so for liability purposes. This year when there are SM baseball and softball games going on at the same time, parking is going to be a problem and many supports may have to park up at the SM gym and walk down to the baseball and softball field areas.

 

Hey Loop, glad to hear that the drive is now paved. It must have happened after Legion season ended last spring. That's the last time I was there and it wasn't paved then.

 

Edit: Southloop, I moved this post over here, since we already had one of the same topic....great information. It looks as if they are putting a lot of time and money in the softball field.


By Southloop:

Papabear: The “pothole filled drive” issue at South Meck was taken care of back in the summer of 2002. The South Meck drive, starting at the gym, was smoothed out with dirt and paved down to the baseball field. You can no longer drive up on the hillside to park above the baseball field (or sit in your car to watch the games) but have to park in the lower parking lot beside the batting cages and walk into the SM baseball field from this area. SM, however, lost a lot of parking spaces up on the hillside due to this remodeling but was highly advised to do so for liability purposes. This year when there are SM baseball and softball games going on at the same time, parking is going to be a problem and many supports may have to park up at the SM gym and walk down to the baseball and softball field areas.

 

Hal Bagwell, his coaching staff, his players, and his father parent supports had a great work day at South Meck today and accomplished a lot!

The backstop poles were resanded and repainted, a new batting cage net was hung for the new batting cage, redid the old batting cage, added a second pitcher's warm-up mound by 1st base so that 2 pitchers can warm up at one time for the home team, redid the pitcher's warm-up mound on the visitor's team's side, added crushed brick gravel around both dugouts facing out to the field and around the inside field back stop area, and spread some sand and planted some grass out on the road path outside of the 1st base fence.

Coach Bagwell is still fighting to get the parking area back up on the hillside behind the baseball field but at no avail as yet.

 

South Meck concession workday scheduled for Saturday, 2/8, starting at 10:00 am. Be there or be square!

 

Sabrefan, when i came home for break i did notice they locked that parking up there, but i did not know why. do you know why they are not letting people park there?

 

I heard they are converting it into a parking garage or a length wise pressbox to hold their oompas Those lil' people multiply like rabbits

I haven't heard why, but I'm pretty sure that Southloop can clue us in.