2008 Schedule

[LaxRef]

High school baseball can not start practice until mid-March and has to wait a couple of weeks after that until they can play any games. Therefore, in February and most of March, baseball would not be a conflict.

High school baseball would not be a conflict. However, I think a boatload of college teams play games at the dome in February (not just the U of M). Plus college softball maybe?

[TexOle]

I was at a St. Olaf baseball game at the Metrodome last year that started at 2AM. I know St. Olaf and St. Thomas both use the Rosemount dome for softball. Trying to clear the St. Thomas softball team was a major problem. I guess someone needed the entire dome to celebrate a birthday after their game. Then the coach yelled at us for allowing the teams to play while they were still in the entry way of the dome. Oh that was not fun. I believe St. Thomas got a few phone calls on that issue.

[Chris Larson]

League Schedule is posted on MCLA website. Please examine for any errors. Email me with corrections.

Note that games taking place outside the UMLL are to be entered by the conference in which the games are being contested (eg. UST vs Emory should be entered by the SELC)

[whitcd]

Any reason why the location for games played in Mankato are Bethany Lutheran instead of MSU?

[Chris Larson]

I'm working with the webmaster to get a few additional venues added. That site was used last year and seems to have supplated your rec fields among the available selections. Should be corrected soon.

[troche]

Should have explained better, not highschool. College, mens leagues, mens softball.... Or atleast that is what I was told for the week of March 24th. Not sure on Febuary.

High school baseball can not start practice until mid-March and has to wait a couple of weeks after that until they can play any games. Therefore, in February and most of March, baseball would not be a conflict.

Tim

[Chris Larson]

Any reason why the location for games played in Mankato are Bethany Lutheran instead of MSU?

Fixed

[mavlax23]

I had no idea that our Lacrosse After Dark party would cause such a battle of words throughout the league and lacrosse community. For us we weren't trying to just play some lacrosse and any facility that was willing to let us in at any hour we were all ears. I guess it is our fault, Mankato did take care of the scheduling on this one, but it wasn't due to lack of effort or laziness that we couldn't secure good indoor times. We contacted almost all of the domes on that list probably 4 months or more in advance and those were the only times on those weekends that were available.

We were stuck between a rock and a hard place, we had multiple teams contacting us to come to MN and play against UMLL teams and the OOC teams had given us the dates that they could play on. It was either turn down teams and burn bridges by telling them they can't come here, or do something a little out of the ordinary and play at odd hours. To me and the teams involved it was a no brainer and we welcome the challenge of finding a starbucks open at 3am in order to play more lacrosse. I think the fact that teams are willing to come here and play at odd hours just to get in games against UMLL teams is a good thing, and in turn reflects positively on our league.

By the time we were contacted by the OOC teams every dome was booked solid we had no choice, it was either midnight - 6am or nothing. It was a large block of time needed to play multiple games in the same weekend at the same venue, it was not just one or two games to schedule dome time for. We could not predict the future and know to pay for dome time a year in advance to get good times in the hopes of getting enough teams to commit to coming to MN.

I don't apologize for the odd hours on the schedule for all to see (and this somehow reflecting poorly on our league), in my eyes it shows commitment and dedication and as long as all the teams involved can make it work then I don't think there should be any arguments made about how we are "bush-league".

[LaxRef]

As someone scheduled to work a game ending around 1:30 a.m. about 40 minutes from my house followed by one the next morning requiring me to be there at 4:00 a.m., all I can say is that I'll be understanding if you will!

[horn17]

Or better yet, maybe we roll out the Webber...and do some in-between game grilling??? We can do some steaks, and of course some omelets for the breakfast crowd......


You might be better off just staying awake....