Hopefully you caught my Brandon Larson feature from the first day of camp in either the Courier News or Home News Tribune. If not, here is the link:
http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080416/SPORTS01/804160315/1011
The first two practices have been pretty uneventful with pitchers fielding grounders and throwing to the bases. The hitters have taken batting practice in three groups while the other two groups field routine grounders. Needless to say, I'm looking forward to Thursday's intra-squad scrimmage.
I heard from a friend in Florida -- where the Atlantic League is holding spring training minus the Patriots and Newark Bears -- that Southern Maryland manager Butch Hobson is putting his team through some intense practices.
Patriots manager Sparky Lyle said that would happen because he remembers Hobson's Nashua Pride teams as very prepared. He remembers them working on fundamentals and plays for hours.
The interesting thing to me is this seems to be similar to one of the things that cost Frank Klebe his manager job with the Lancaster Barnstormers last season.
Now, you cannot compare Hobson -- a former major-league player and major-league manager with a resume of success -- to Klebe, who had a limited resume walking into Lancaster and who made on-field decisions that raised the eyebrows of many of his peers.
I would listen to Hobson over Klebe, too.
While the Barnstormers practically revolted against Klebe during the middle of last season for a multitude of reasons -- and I'm not going to pretend to be an insider to all of them -- one certainly was because they felt his harping on the basics was demeaning to their professionalism.
Seems like the source is more important than the words.
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Are you sure about the intra-squad scrimmage on Thursday? It is not on the schedule on the Patriots web site. If there is, what time?
How does the Patriots team look this year?
Whats tomorrow's schedule?
As you can tell, the Patriots are not exactly following the times on the schedule released to the public last week.
I will make sure to include on my blog or in my stories what is on top for the the next day.
Saturday is a scrimmage at Newark at 12 p.m. and Sunday is a scrimmage against Newark at the Jack Cust Academy at 12 p.m.
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