Countdown to Saskatoon - ISF XII Men's World Championship – July 17-26, 2009
July 14, 2009
Richmond Hill, ON - Home of the 1972 ISF World Champion Richmond Hill Dynes
Countdown to Saskatoon - ISF XII Men's World Championship – July 17-26, 2009
Last Thursday, July 9, we passed along some information on Video Streaming planned from Saskatoon for the ISF’s.
http://tinyurl.com/l37a4s We have received numerous notes of inquiry since then from fans from all over the world asking for more details. I am sorry but I am as much in the dark here as everyone else. The host site still has no information on its subject link,
http://www.2009worldsmensfastpitch.com/Webcam.phpSo all I can recommend is you keep watching that site and/or contact the host committee.
Excellent questions posed to us include:
- who are the announcers, play by play and colour commentators – do they know senior men’s ball?
- What video and audio quality will we have?
- What is the schedule for the games to be covered?
- will other games have at least a video image?
Hopefully we will have more information very soon as the countdown is on, we play ball in 3 more days!
The Blue Crew for Saskatoon!
It’s very nice to see this set of bios on the Umpires coming to Saskatoon for the
ISF XII Men's World Championship. See http://tinyurl.com/mr42bfI look forward to meeting the umpires from all over the world, many of whom I have only met on the internet.
Exhibition games with visiting teams continue. See our link for the schedule and within the schedule you will find links to the results reported to us so far. We are only missing a couple and hope they reach us soon. Gary Baughman, the ISC Statistician is tracking each and every game we report. See the link:
Thank you to all the host sites, team managers and others like Dennis Dosman who has done a great job of sending us these reports. They are being read with great interest by fans in North America as well as back home by the many fans, family and friends of the players visiting Canada.
The Vancouver Challenge just wrapped up and a number of the visiting teams played in this prestigious tournament as a warm up to the ISF’s, see
http://tinyurl.com/nk9bdtThe remaining exhibition games will be played in the Saskatoon area and we hope to have the results of each and every one of those games.
Today: The exhibition games in Melfort vs the Czechs are in a holding pattern right
now due to rain. We'll know by 2 PM local time what is happening.
I have heard from Barry Smith from Team Canada and from Gilles LeBlanc from Softball Canada and know they are anxious to help bring as much information to the fans as possible during the ISF Championship in Saskatoon.
I am counting on the host committee to provide me with our standard Game Summary Sheets right after every game so that we can keep the information flowing on all the action. I have been assured a reserved spot in the press box and a wireless connection so we should be good to go on Friday morning.
Safe travels to all the fans, players, umpires, and officials headed to Saskatoon, see you in the park on Friday morning.
