Coaches: April 14 (two weeks from today) will be the last day teams can add players to their rosters. After that date, all rosters will be frozen.

Here are the steps for adding a player to your roster:

1) coaches enter the player online using the same URL you used to enter the rest of your team

2) submit a completed and signed waiver for the player (blank waivers available in the Forms section of our web site)

3) if the player is in a t-ball through 3rd grade division, submit entry fee and uniform order form (please email info@sybl.com if you need details on this)

We will be happy to send coaches a copy of their roster as we have it at any time should they wish to verify we have all their players listed.

This is a reminder that no sunflower seeds are allowed in the dugout or on the field at Silver Terrace or South Sunset.

SF Rec & Park has informed us that their gardeners are continuously finding sunflower seed shells at both locations after SFYBL and other leagues have played or practiced there…sometimes finding them directly under posted NO SUNFLOWER SEEDS signs.

Starting immediately, SF Rec & Park will be fining leagues $100 for a first violation, $250 for a second violation, and $500 for a third violation.

SFYBL operates on a shoestring budget and is run largely by volunteers. Registration fees don’t come close to the costs we incur to run the league, and we depend heavily on the financial largess of SF Rec & Park and SF FLAME to make this league happen. We cannot afford to be paying out fines due to players who ignore posted signs.

If a SFYBL team is fined for any violation of Rec & Park field rules…the offending team will receive a one-game suspension and be obligated to pay the fine.

Coaches: it is YOUR responsibility to make sure your players are adhering to such posted signs at SF Rec & Park fields!

Unfortunately, even though the sun is out right now (at least for the moment); the grass fields in the city are saturated due to the amount of rain yesterday. As such, all SF Rec & Park grass fields are closed today for practices and games.

SF Rec & Park has asked us to remind our teams not to practice on a closed field. We know the kids and coaches are eager to play, but practicing on a closed field could cause a team to lose its practice permit.

We had six games scheduled for this evening. One of those was scheduled for a turf field, and we have relocated a second game to a turf field as well. The games schedules for turf fields will go on as scheduled unless it is raining at game time.

We know it’s frustrating to have so many rain-outs canceling practices and games. We will do everything in our power to make up as many rained out games as possible within the constraints of field availability in the city.

A lot of people are asking what we do in the event of rain or possible rain. Our policy on rain cancellations is we do them as a last result.

If it’s raining heavily the night before a game, we most likely will cancel all the next day’s games. If it’s raining lightly the night before or the morning of a game…we will wait no later than two hours prior to game time before deciding whether or not to call games off. There’s always the possibility that even with the games on…it could start raining to the point where the umpires call the game off (in the PONY divisions) or the coaches call the game off in the t-ball through 3rd grade divisions.

When games are called off how will you know? As soon as we make a decision to call games off, we will promptly post that to this web site. We will also email all affected coaches.

Please keep all this in mind, as tomorrow we have Opening Day Ceremonies at Kezar Stadium as well as a full days of games in all divisions at fields all around the city.

where: Kezar Stadium
when: Saturday, March 24, 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM

8:30am – 9:00am – Team arrivals (street parking or pay parking available in Kezar lot off Stanyan)
9:00am – 10:30am – Festivities
- Team and/or Individual Pictures* – there will be 3 photographer stations set up on the field. Team and/or individual pictures will be taken on a first come – first served basis, so arrive early.
- Bounce house and obstacle course for kids to play on
- Arts and crafts area

10:30am – 10:45am – Teams arrange themselves around the track according to division: T-ball, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, Mustang, Bronco, Pony (There will be signs directing you where to go)

10:45am – 11:00am – Teams parade around the Kezar stadium track and then find a spot on the field for the ceremony

11:00am – 11:30am – Ceremony
- National Anthem sung by SFYBL 1st grade team the FSK Little Giants
- Welcome by SF Rec and Park General Manager, Phil Ginsberg and SF Fire Chief, Joanne Hayes-White
- Special Guest Introductions: former SF Giants player, Vida Blue and SF Giants Mascot, Lou Seal

11:30am – 2pm – Hot dogs available for purchase

12pm – The first four T-ball games commence on the field at Kezar Stadium
Game #1 – West Portal Panthers vs RPD Eureka Valley Cubs
Game #2 – CDS Lizardfish vs FAIS Jaguars
Game #3 – RPD Laurel Hill Sun Devils vs RPD Jackson Brewers
Game #4 – RPD Moscone Colts vs RPD Eureka Valley Grizzlies

* you can download the picture order form at: http://sfybl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/TSSPictureForm.pdf

Attention T-Ball through 3rd grade division coaches:

We will be having two uniform pick-up times this week for those of you who ordered team uniforms through SFYBL:

Thursday, March 22, 5-9 PM – SF County Fair Bldg./Gallery Room
Friday, March 23, 5-9 PM – SF County Fair Bldg./Auditorium

The SF County Fair Building is the same location we held the coaches meetings at on January 12 & 17. It is located in the southern edge of Golden Gate Park near Lincoln/9th Ave. (1199 9th Ave.)