Who’ll Stop the Rain?
Long as I remember
The rain been comin’ down.
Clouds of myst’ry pourin’
Confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages,
Tryin’ to find the sun;
And I wonder,
Still I wonder,
Who’ll stop the rain.
-John Fogerty
The Artesia City League is a great place for So Cal teams to get their work in during the week, including the likes of Travis Price and Team Rainey, Captain Dans, Raymar, the Lakewood Jets and the Long Beach Black Sox. No truth to the rumor that the league is moving to a domed facility, though that might be one way to get games in amidst all the rain we’ve been getting the past three weeks in “sunny” Southern California. It’s pouring again tonight, and looks like Wednesday night could be washed out. The troops are getting antsy to play, especially with the So Cal ASA travel league starting this weekend, and everyone a rusty. I suppose we shouldn’t complain too loudly though, as the folks East of us would probably be happy to trade our weather for theirs. An email I received from a fastpitch friend in Illinois tonight brought that point home succintly. I mentioned that the weatherman was predicting 82 degree weather for our travel league this weekend in Palm Springs. He fired back that it was also going to be 82 in Illinois this weekend — 40 on Saturday and 42 on Sunday. ’nuff said.