I can see a picture of my face with an arrow - hit it here

There is a retention pond beyond the outfield fence at Cape Henlopen’s Chris Short field that has water and ducks, and soon sunken home run balls will cover the bottom muck. A name is needed – The Townsend Tank - and special recognition for players who leave the yard for splashdown on the fly - one bounce doesn’t count.

The baseball boosters are selling advertising sign space 4-by-8-feet - a sheet of plywood for you rednecks. It is $350 for the first year and $150 a year after on a three-year contract. This is good bang for the buck, so to speak. I can already see the Cape Gazette in center field with a picture of my face and an arrow indicating “hit it here!”

Contact Tim Halloran, Baseball Boosters president, visit the website chhsvikingsbaseball. com or call Cape Henlopen High School, 645-7711.

“Cape Henlopen. Hello, this is Kate.”

“I’d like to buy a sign for the baseball field.”

“I’m happy for you honey, so would I, and good luck in your endeavor.”

The Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille in the Villages of Five Points in Lewes is hosting a baseball fundraiser Wednesday, March 24.

HELPING HAND - Smyrna’s Betnijah Laney plays the game with a rough-hewn beam on her shoulders. She has that reflexive elbow to keep defenders out of her personal space - just ask trailing official Howard Smack who made the mistake of running up on Laney during a regular-season game at Cape. Laney goes to the floor a lot because she is always powering to the basket. Last Wednesday at the Bob Carpenter Center, Meg Bartley knocked Laney to the floor on a driving lay-up, then offered a helping hand in an act of sportsmanship. Laney left Meg hanging, as the expression goes, and the Cape crowd booed. But where is it written that a helping hand must be grasped after a knockdown? I was OK with the moment all the way around and had my hand rejected a few times as a player and I can’t remember what I said - just that it was two words.

GOOD TIMES - My sports theory is that the better teams become, the more people will surface in the shadows wanting to coach them. And no one knows better how to coach winning teams than fans after a loss. Lamont “Poochie” Hazzard took a team that in no way predicted championship potential and had it one foot through the door into a state final. Any time a team doesn’t win, hindsight strategy is better because foresight resulted in a loss.

Go ahead and think about that while I add the Cape loss to Smyrna when up 15 with 12 minutes of playing time remaining to my sports book “Getting Home: How Can I Screw This Up?” Keep away, letting air out of the ball and stalling are ways to play defense while on offense and are a defeatist approach that scares most coaches who prefer an aggressive style to the final buzzer.

SNIPPETS - The Olde Tymers Softball League (55 and over) begins its 13th season with 12 teams and for not much money you can sponsor a squad getting your name on the uniform shirt and you get to call yourself an owner and you can even be a player/owner. Contact President Bo Wood at 945-1849 or email him at lobo302@mchsi.com.

Pastor Fred Duncan - sounds like a Jamaican sprinter - of Bethel UM Church is forming a local softball league that will play games at the Eagle’s Nest field. The Olde Tymers League and any local church leagues should contact Pastor Duncan to see if any margining or articulation of leagues is feasible or freezable.

Most real games for spring sports teams begin about Tuesday, March 23.

There have been many special deals worked out for spring athletes who play on select travel teams or are doing two sports and travel team all at the same time. This is between coaches, athletes and team members and is a reality of the modern sports era. But if the athlete doesn’t practice much with the mother team but plays in most games but not all, how is the one-team athlete to react when minutes are taken away? It is a bit of a conundrum.

Polar Bear Plunge this Sunday at 1 p.m. in Rehoboth. Beware of unfiltered long lenses.