Evan says Thank You

We celebrated my son, Evan’s 6th birthday after our game verses Opole last Saturday. Some of the Lakers stopped by to give Evan a card and a gift. Evan was fired up to see his Laker buddies crash his party and is very thankful for the card (sign by the whole team) and gift.
He [...]

Deters plays all 9 or 10 positions

The Lakers took one on the chin verses the Pearl Lake Lakers but the highlight was the crafty veteran Gary Deters playing all 9 10 positions. He played them in the following order: CF, RF, P, LF, 3B, C, 1B, SS, 2B and finally he hit in the EH spot. He follows former Lakers’ [...]

Dets is Free Fallin’

Gary Deters joined the band The Crawlers for their gig at the Pearl Lake Lodge on July 9th after their game against the Pearl Lake Lakers. It was planned for about 3 months that he would join them and sing Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty…his favorite song. It’s a little dark and a little [...]

Ma has broken through

Ma did what others could not. Her SCH jersey submission of Darko Milicic, Detroit Pistons made it as today’s jersey post. Commenter, G-Money gave props saying:
This could be the Holy Grail of SCH jerseys. Has there ever been a bigger bust in NBA Draft history?

Score thus far:

boverman: 1
Ma: 1
Others: 0

Brave or idiotic?

Well, I’m going with idiotic.  I think there’s a time to just give up, but not this moronic dog!
Somewhere there is a naked Porcupine!
This Pit Bull decided he would attack a poor Porcupine; but being brave and stupid, he learned the hard way that you can’t always win, no matter how tough you are. [...]

Avon Lakers @ Marshall A’s

On June 27th, the Avon Lakers traveled down to Marshall, MN to play an exhibition game against the Marshall A’s at Legion Field. It’s the first long road trip for the Lakers since 1995, my first year with the Lakers. It was a gorgeous night and a great baseball game in an extremely nice park.
We [...]