Email Update - Year 4

Hello family, friends, fans, and Mom,

It's Springtime... That means a return to the baseball blogging with yours truly.
The JMP Baseball website was too much maintenance and complex for a simplistic internet user like myself so I will be returning to the www.justprin.blogspot.com and will hopefully be un-cluttering your email unless there are important updates. As most of you are aware I spent the Northern Hemisphere winter playing ball in Perth, Western Australia (and to the desires of my Law school Dean and Professors, as well as my grandparents, I was also able to complete 6 international law credits during January and February).
After an interesting 6 months down under, which you can read about at http://justprin.blogspot.com/2010/03/australia-version-20.html, and an eventful 6 days catching up with everyone I could in Detroit, I have settled back in Almere, The Netherlands (aka Holland) where I am in my second season with last year's Dutch First Division champion and recently promoted to the top league in Europe, Almere Magpies. In years past, I have played in countries where it hasn't always been easy to follow games and stats online, however, for all you real true baseball fans I have provided some pretty easy links below, many of which cover the Dutch Major League in English.

Opening day was last weekend and we split with one of the best teams in all of Europe, Kinheim, winning with a walk-off double in the bottom of the 9th with two outs by our SS Mitch Graham, who I found in Perth Australia to help solidify our squad for what will be a difficult season in the top league. (video highlights here: http://www.omroepflevoland.nl/Sport/69727/honkballers-pakken-eerste-punten ) I begin the year as the team's closer, similar to last season, and was able to hawk my first Head Class victory by coming in the 9th for the second straight day ( read the game recaps and box scores here: http://www.mister-baseball.com/recaps-almere-magpies-return-hoofdklasse-walkoff-win/ ). This weekend we take on HCAW, a team that had me on their radar to sign the past few years but decided I didn't have enough MLB experience to warrant the highly-sought international player roster spot. I am really looking forward to this series. You can continue to follow the season on websites such as:

http://hosting3.sportingpulse.com/www.netherlandsbaseball.com/index.php?id=13 (The Dutch Baseball Federation Official Page in English)

http://home.planet.nl/~stoov/ (probably the best recaps of the games in English)

www.mister-baseball.com (the top English website for everything baseball in Europe)

www.a90.nl (the Almere Baseball website, in Dutch)

http://hosting3.sportingpulse.com/www.netherlandsbaseball.com/index.php?id=83 (my personal player page)

http://www.knbsb-stats.nl/tas/2010/statsHB/lgplyrs.htm (All Dutch Head Class baseball stats)

http://www.knbsb.nl/la/overview.php?LevelID=110 (the Schedule and Results for all of our games)

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Enjoy the 4th pro season of your favorite international baseball vagabond