9/16/2011 7:43:41 PM
FORT MYERS, Fla. - First off, let me say this. The first day of the PG WWBA Florida Qualifier certainly went much more smoothly than did the first quarter for my beloved Iowa State Cyclones in their Friday night ESPN2 football game against UConn. From what I can derive from the first half stats, ISU is extremely lucky to be trailing only 10-7 at halftime. And now Cyclone QB Steele Jantz is limping into the locker room with some sort of leg injury. It's hard to accept that the highlight of the season came in Week 2, when Jantz and the Clones beat rival Iowa. Good thing I don't live and die with college football.
I realized as I was leaving Terry Park tonight that this blog might be kind of boring the next three nights, at least as far as offering tidbits about the Fort Myers social scene. I'm back at the hotel already tonight, will eat a sub sandwich for dinner and probably in be in bed around 11 p.m. Maybe one of the younger PG guys should have tackled this blog. If I can get through Saturday and Sunday's long work days, I should be able to make it out for dinner and a couple of beers on Monday and Tuesday. We fly out to Phoenix early Wednesday morning.
I did get an opportunity to cruise through historic downtown Fort Myers with its red-brick streets while killing time this morning. It looked like there were some pretty cool eateries and pubs downtown and I'll try to visit a couple of them on either Monday or Tuesday.
There were five games played to kickoff the Florida Qualifer Friday, and the winners were SWFL 18u, IMG Baseball Academy, Gatorball Baseball Academy, Cyclone Baseball and SWFL 16u. Those latter three teams all won by shutout and blogs, game wraps and boxscores for all five games can be found at
http://www.perfectgame.org/events/TournamentSchedule.aspx?event=1114.
I'll try to pick up the pace over the next couple of nights but tonight it's a roast beef hoagie and Bud Light here in my room at the Crowne Plaza. The only certainty I have about Saturday is I need to be at Terry Park at 8 a.m. and at the Red Sox 5-Plex at 10:30 a.m. for planned stories on SWFL 18u and Palm Beach Select.
Good night everybody!