Good luck this weekend. I am sure you will have a great time down here. We are from Birmingham but have spent most of our spring playing in Georgia. There are definitely some great teams in this one. We have played 15 or so of them this year and the competition has made our group of 03'2 much better.
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Bring LOTS of water. It is extremely hot and humid right now. Your girls will start sweating as soon as they leave the air conditioning.
It's the elite futures showcase in Dallas, GA. There are 41 teams from 16 states competing in the 12u! I wish we had complexes like this in new england!
Yeah, we start playing as soon as it's 45F out and think it's warm! I have Saban's video queued for DD to watch on the plane!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9VjxQSOb7A "It's hot. Everyone knows it hot. No need to talk or complain about it."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9VjxQSOb7A "It's hot. Everyone knows it hot. No need to talk or complain about it."
You have not lived until you try a funnel cake or fried oreos from a ballpark concession stand!
As others mentioned, be prepared for the heat. Start hydrating yesterday!
This cannot be stressed enough. We are in the high 70s by 7 - 8 am with a heat index already in the mid-high 80s in some places.
- Jun 19, 2013
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I did my basic training in South Carolina, coming from the Northwest we'd never even heard of a heat index - but you learn about it real quick!!! "Fort Jackson where it's 104 degrees in the shade and humidity that will choke the life out of you" I think there was a shirt that said something like that. Followed up by something about fire ants . . .
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Funny this thread got me to thinking about the same speech, I showed it to DD also a few years ago.
After it's all over.
Y'all come back ya hear!
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I don't think I've been to any parks in Georgia that DON'T allow outside food. The concession stand food tends to be cheap but it's not remotely healthy.
