With Christmas and all, it's a difficult time to be thinking about baseball, but we feel the earlier we can start planning for next season the better.

Basically, everything anyone needs to know about minor baseball will be there.

Besides throwing the ball around, it's also a good time for the players and coaches to meet each other and get to know each other better.

At the same time, we saw solid sales increases in the front-end of the store, especially during the Christmas and Valentine's Day seasons.

The decision to name one of the top managers in the game of baseball in recent time, to bring him back to this organization, is a very big day for our franchise.

We need to hear from coaches and other volunteers as soon as possible, so we can start assigning them to teams.