Getting Ready for the Grand Slam World Series!

Maroon Nation - The website has been cleaned up a little to get you to essential information. Instructions to follow on Gamechanger are below, or you can follow games by just clicking on the game in the ticker on this page. You can receive in-game text alerts by following @14u_DSB_Maroon on Twitter, information below. Enable text alerts and you will receive in-game scores via SMS. Any questions while we're doing World Series, email me at robertburnsatl@yahoo.com or direct message @14u_DSB_Maroon. See y'all in PCB!

DSN Georgia State Wood Bat Champs!

Congratulations to all 15 players on the roster that contributed to the team's tournament victory. Great job, players and coaches!!

Congratulations to the Acworth Warrior Wood Bat Champions!

An intrepid band of 14u Diablos Baseball players entered the Acworth Warriors Wood Bat Invitational and came away with the hardware! Congratulations for representing 14u Diablos Baseball so well!

Gamechanger Access Instructions

Latest development: Game Changer will be posting updates to the team Twitter, @14u_DSB_Maroon.

The link you use to access the 14u Maroon GameChanger is http://gc.io/team-51549ee80c27590cdfae8267. Please contact Jeff Hannah if you have any questions. Jeff's email address is Jeff.Hannah@alston.com, but please exercise courtesy, that's his business email. We're also looking for a third scorekeeper. Jeff and Robert will train you.

The GameChanger app gives you a nice formatted view of team statistics. GameChanger accounts are free unless you want the enhanced ability to follow games in progress. That comes extra with a subscription... that's how they get your $$. I'll have to add that that costs less than two gate fees, but we'd rather see you at the games!

14u Maroon and Twitter

PLEASE FOLLOW ON TWITTER. GET AN ACCOUNT AND FOLLOW @14u_DSB_Maroon. WITH AN ACCOUNT YOU CAN SET UP TEXT ALERTS WHEN THE ACCOUNT TWEETS.

This is 2012-13 information - most current!

Last year, 13u DSB Diablos Maroon was successful at live tweeting our far-away games that  not everyone could get to. I was able to name-change that account and you can find it at https://twitter.com/14u_DSB_Maroon. Of course, major announcements for the team will be posted on the 14u Maroon home page. We'll test the live feed at our first DH or tournament game. If you don't have a twitter account, go ahead and get one so you can take advantage of this service!

Gamechanger's tweets did work yesterday, up until the big comeback. They are a little cryptic, but you do get a score every half inning out of it.

-Robert Burns

Justin and the Giant

This picture is of Justin and a 13yr old.  We will always remember that this boy later got tossed for running over Alex Jacovetty at catcher.

Follow us on Twitter

As you might know, twitter is a very effective way to communicate with a large group of folks interested in what you are doing on a given time.  Now, this applies to Jennifer Anniston tweeting about what she is having for lunch today and letting all her fans know about it, but it can also be used by our Diablos coaches to lets us know about practices, games, rain outs, etc.  This is how it can work for us:

•    Signup for a twitter account.  Go to:  http://twitter.com/  and sign up. It's free and there is very little personal data needed to open your account.
•    When you have signed up with twitter, look up: "14uDiabloMaroon".  Once you find it, click "follow".
•   That is it!  As long as you have the twitter app going in your cell phone or log in to the twitter website, you will receive any messages associated w ith the 14 YO DiabloMaroon team.   

Now, you may say to yourself, …”this is too complicated and I don’t want to deal with twitter and the app etc. , can I get the tweets in the form of a text to my cell phone?  And the answer is a resounding yes.

Here is how to do it:

1. Go to your twitter account, go to your profile
2. Click “edit profile”
3. Click “Mobile”
4. Enter your cell number, twitter will ask you to send a text from your phone to Twitter to verify your phone and with the text “go” as your text message
5. Twitter will verify your message as received
6. In the same page, under “Message notifications”,  please make sure you check the box

Tweets from people you've enabled for mobile notifications

7.      Click save your settings

8.      Go to your home page and click people you follow or click under the 14uDiabloMaroon name and you will get something like this.

If you notice, under the right hand side above next to “following”, there is a cell phone symbol.  When you click the cell phone symbol, all tweets from this particular user, will be forwarded to the cell phone that you have authorized in the steps above. (you will see a message telling you so).

That is it.  One warning.  Standard text messaging from your cell carrier will apply here.  If you have unlimited text or family test messaging, then you are fine. If you don’t, just be aware that this may add a few pennies to your cell bill per month.