April 22nd, 2012

Read the April 2012 edition of the Pinetar Newsletter

Get ready for the Pinetar/BBM gathering this year on June 28th-July 1st in Ft. Lauderdale!

We'll welcome the Phillies to the Marlins new ballpark for the Saturday afternoon game 

with meet and greet sessions Friday through Sunday in Ft. Lauderdale. Group hotel will be at the Pelican Beach Resort. Call 1.800.525.6232 for reservations and mention the Pinetar Group. Plans currently are:

Shula's Steakhouse Thursday night for early arrivals. Gather 6pm, dinner about 7 or so. 

Friday night at Shooter's Waterfront Cafe. Main gathering 5pm-until closing. 

Saturday we'll gather at the Pelican Beach Resort bar area at 11am and leave on the shuttle to go to the Marlins game at 2pm, game starts at 4pm. Shuttle will return us to the Pelican. Daily Parking available at the hotel. 

Sunday we'll do something as a group, but we haven't decided what yet. We'll probably decide while we're there what looks interesting. 

If you want to attend any portion of these outings just fill out the Event Survey. Purchasing info for game tickets and shuttle will be distributed in early May. If you have any questions at all about anything email Humin'bird.

Congrats to our 2011 Year End Award Winners!

Commissioner of the Year:
Humin'bird (David Godwin) takes this one. Thanks to everyone for their votes. I enjoyed this season and all the new leagues and faces. It was a rewarding year for Pinetar and me personally.

Comeback Manager of the Year:
Skip (Donald Weaver) of Chrysalis takes this one for returing to Chrysalis after a 5 year break and whooping up on everyone. Skip takes his Dawgs and his trophy to Phoenix next season.

Rookie of the Year:
Man, this one was close. Only 3 votes separated Homer and Rainman, but Homer (Rich Benca) takes the trophy with his dominant 110 win and 4 power rank season in Crackerjack this year. Nice start to a Pinetar career for Homer.

Pinetar's Manager of Year:
Winning any of Pinetar's top leagues is tough, but this guy won the 5th and 6th toughest AL leagues in BBM this season, both of them Pinetar leagues. The 2011 Pinetar Manager of the Year is Sarge (Bill Shaw), with victories in Calypso and Ares. Sarge will take his show on the road to Odyssey next season, where he'll have to prove himsef yet again against the big boys in BBM's best AL league

Congrats to all of our league winners for 2011!!!

NL Progression

Pinetar - Flash (Bruce Moran)

Pegasus - The Brain (Bob Spivak)

Phoenix - Longie (Joe Leifer)

Alpha - Cuervo (Bob Dejban)

Chrysalis - Skip (Don Weaver)

Genesis - Carde (Eric Johnson)

Nova - Poolboy (Joe Davison)

Cronus - Chester (Kris Van Houten)

Daedalus - Crazy Joe (Joseph Lloyd)

Lelantos - Shaggy (Cory Holcomb)

NL Keeper

Atlantis - Fleabag (Mike Flewell)

Clemente - Ump (Larry West)

Coast to Coast - Righty (Francis Looby Jr.)

Crackerjack - Homer (Rich Benca)

Senior Circuit - Elmore (Bill Biggerstaff)

AL Progression

Odyssey - Scott (Scott Hertel)

Calypso - Sarge (Bill Shaw)

Hyperion - Slugger (Adam Shaw)

Apollo - Action (Steve Clark)

Helios - Rainman (Bob Burke)

Omega - Pete - (Pete Kaftarian)

Poseidon - Anh (Anh Pham)

AL Keeper

Ares - Sarge (Bill Shaw)

Die Hard - Chico (Terry Harris)

AU Progression

Lagniappe - Tommy (Tom Fujawa)

Armageddon - Obie (Tim Oberschlake)

Hades - Bill Lee (Kenneth Liddy)

AU Keeper

Hold Em  - Cobra (Jerry Reoch)