The 2012 PSSBL season is underway, and the weather was great for opening weekend.

All 711 regular season games of the 2012 season are posted. To view your team’s schedule, go to your team page at www.pssbl.com and click on Schedule.

With several new fields in the mix and changes or renovations at some of our existing fields, please thoroughly review the Field Rules. Remember, all players who participate in any PSSBL game must be fully paid, Active players and/or eligible Taxi Pool players. Ineligible players who play in a contest will cost their team a forfeit.

If you have a question about a particular game due to threatening weather, call the Rainout Line at 425-644-1901 and press Option#2. It will be updated as needed.

Have a good, safe, and most of all FUN 2012 baseball season!

The 2012 PSSBL Draft was held Saturday, March 31st, at Sport Restaurant & Bar in Seattle. You may view the results here: http://www.pssbl.com/divisions.aspx and then click on Draft Results by division. Thanks to all the tryout players who are now members of the non-profit PSSBL. We hope you have a fun summer in the league with your new team. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped run the tryouts, to all the GM’s and other team representatives, and to the Board members for their tireless efforts. Thanks also to Sport Restaurant for their hospitality during our draft day event.

While every effort was made to place tryout players on a PSSBL team or in a desired division, that was not always possible. Refunds will be forthcoming to the players who were not drafted, and partial refunds will be credited to players who paid for a longer season than the one for which they were actually drafted.

With 65 teams across 8 divisions and well over 1,000 players, the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League continues to be the premiere adult sports league – not only in the Puget Sound region, but one of the biggest and best in the U.S.

The MSBL/MABL National Organization has launched a new website just in time for 2012. A huge benefit is moving all of the HARDBALL magazine archives online, as well as having information on all of the regional and national tournaments.

There’s also the ability for League Photo Albums, and great new feature content. Another example of why the MSBL/MABL are the premier choice for Adult baseball!

www.msblnational.com

As it turns out there is a small bug that is impacting some players who have been invited to join a team as a buddy pick for 2012.

If you were playing on a team in a division last year, and were invited to join a different team in the same division for 2012 (either via mutual release or a cut, etc), the registration system currently defaults to only letting you stay on your old team.

We’re going to make a change that allows you to Opt in to the new team. Look for more information later tonight.

Update 9:00 PM I’ve rolled out a change that fixes this bug. For anyone that was blocked by this all you need to do is click on the link in your invite again to restart the invite process.

We’ve opened up registration for the 2012 season and you might notice a few changes. We’ve made some major updates to the registration process this year, and we’re pretty excited to get it out and ready for you to try.

There are two major changes for 2012:

• Credit Card Payments directly on www.pssbl.com

Previously, we linked users over to PayPal at the end of registration, where the payment process was very complicated. For the upcoming season, we’ve switched over to a new payment provider that allows us to make the payment process much more integrated, and therefore less likely to not work.

Just like in the past, we never store any credit card information, so you don’t have to worry about your information being safe.

• Buddy Picks are now invite-only

In past seasons, any player could sign up on any team. Inevitably we’d have a bunch of people sign up on the wrong team. Now, General Managers can invite players directly from their Manage Roster page, thus keeping rosters more accurate. As before, if you were on the team in the previous season you’ll be automatically placed on the roster.

Good luck, and have a great season!

The 2012 tryouts start on Saturday, March 3rd at Bellevue College. Players age 35 & over should attend the 9am-Noon session (check in at 8:30am). Players age 19 & over should attend the Noon-3pm session (check in at 11:30am).

• Saturday, March 3rd 8:30am – 3:00pm
• Saturday, March 10th 8:30am – 3:00pm
• Saturday, March 24th 8:30am – 3:00pm

Those who turn 19 any time during the 2012 calendar year – even as late as December 31, 2012 – are eligible to join the league this season.  There is no fee to try out for the PSSBL. Players may attend one, two, or all three tryout dates. Bellevue College is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle SE in Bellevue.

Directions to Bellevue College

The Puget Sound Senior Baseball League (PSSBL), one of the largest amateur adult baseball leagues in the U.S., will conduct open tryouts for all baseball players, age 19 and over, during the course of three weekends in March. The non-profit PSSBL is comprised of over 1,000 players forming 65 teams in eight different divisions. The divisions are organized based on age and skill level, ranging from highly competitive to purely recreational. Formed in 1989, this year marks the PSSBL’s 24th season of operation.

The annual PSSBL election was held at an all-players meeting Monday, December 5, 2011. Six Executive Board of Directors positionswere voted on by the general membership. Board members serve one year terms.

Here are the results:

1. President – Tom Evans Krause
2. Vice-President – Stuart Chernis
3. Secretary – Adrian Brockway
4. Treasurer – Eric Koosmann
5. Player Agent – Scott Dillinger
6. Fields & Scheduling Director – Ross Price

Division Commissioners were elected during the divisional breakout sessions following the general session. They join the six Executive Members to form the full 2012 PSSBL Board.

• Adams – Matt LeClair
• Adirondack – John Cosfol
• Cascade – Joe Townsend
• Olympic – Paul Davison
• Rocky – Kyle Geddes
• Sierra – Wayne Ottum
• Smoky – Alan Gibson
• Teton – Mike Ruger

Non-voting members:

• League Counsel – Jeff Mirsepasy
• Web Developer – Ken Perkins

Congratulations to the 2011 PSSBL Division Champs!

Adams Division:   Ravens  5   Mustangs  0

Adirondack Division:   "AA" – Best of 3 Series - Silver Foxes over Timbers 2-0;  "A" – Mustangs  10   Solar Sox  2;  "AA" vs. "A" Challenge – Silver Foxes 28  Mustangs  4

Cascade Division:   Orioles  7   Braves  0

Olympic Division:  Mets  1   Ravens  0

Rocky Division:   Blue Rocks  15   Diablos  7

Sierra Division:   Ravens  7   Volcanoes  3

Smoky Division:   AquaSox  7   Rangers  6

Teton Division:   Crawfords  7   Barons  2

 The playoff schedule is available! General Managers please confirm your final seeding with your commissioner, but otherwise the schedule is as follows:

• Adams (Bracket)


• Adirondack (Bracket)


• Cascade (Bracket)


• Olympic (Bracket)


• Rocky (Bracket)


• Sierra (Bracket)


• Smoky (Bracket)


• Teton (Bracket)

For the first time since 2008, PSSBL members played in exhibition-style charity games at Safeco Field.  The two Sunday afternoon games on September 4th benefitted the Marin Morrison Foundation www.marinmorrisonfoundation.org.