His blast in the third with Shane Monahan on gave Solano a 2-0 lead. The guys are setting the table for him. There is a small joke that circulates through the papers that cover the Western Baseball League. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down. After beginning with lofty dreams of cutting a swathe across the Western United States, the league is taking on more realistic expectations for its future.
Good times happen and bad times happen.
It's like a gin rummy game. You discard the bad cards and try to draw better ones. We've only been in business seven years and we try to make adjustments and do things better every year. The league started in 1995 with eight teams in Washington, Oregon, California and British Columbia. Now, only California remains as an original WBL state, with franchises now in Arizona and Utah.