Twas the night before Hoover

Well, the time is almost upon us. T-minus 13 hours and change before the first pitch of the 2010 SEC Tournament. Looks to be a good tourney. Florida, South Carolina, Auburn. Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss are all top 25 teams. That's SIX top 25 teams in one Tournament. Omaha sometimes has to stretch it to get 6 top 25 teams in the CWS. So baseball fans should really enjoy this. Add to the mix the reigning D1 College Baseball champion in LSU, and local favorite Alabama, and you have the ingredients for an interesting 5 days.

When I got to the stadium this afternoon, I met Megan and Marie. They were working the Press Will Call window. They got me set with my credentials and parking pass. The parking pass is always a good thing. Nothing worse than hiking in from the back 40 with all the camera gear and laptops. Well, I guess it could be worse: I could have to hike in from the practice fields.

Then as I walked in to get my media guides and check out the LSU bp session (batting practice, NOT the oil people that screwed up the gulf), I ran across my friend James Young. James is the Director of Stadium Operations for the Birmingham Barons. Can't begin to tell you he enjoyable visits we have had over the years, but he is always quick with a shake of the hand, and background info about the upcoming games. Hope to get James on a podcast with me the next couple of days to walk everyone through game day at Regions Park.

Anyway, time to go grab some chow then get to work studying media guides. Got to know who to take photos of. And no, this is not the Girls of Hoover edition as someone suggested!! Then finish some graphics for my pal Mark Etheridge. He is going to roll out some new stuff for the followers of SEBaseball.com so be sure to visit his site and check it out.

Now, if I could only figure out a way to work my sponsor CyberComm Marketing in this piece......