Its been a while since I logged on to this forum... reasons 1) chaotic and hectic schedule [both work and personal], 2) blogspot changed their operations, so I was too lazy (before) to actually read the new terms and go through the transformation process..Today marks the 13th day after MALB's evolution. Evolution in the sense of:
1. MALB successfuly organized the first MALB Asean Series 2008 Malaysia, a 4-day baseball event - a follow-up tournament of the MALB Divisional Leagues, participated by 6 teams from 3 countries, namely Malaysia (Patriots and Stars), Singapore (Singapore Youth and Typhoon) and Indonesia (Garuda and Eagles).
2. MALB was formally changed and transformed from 'Malaysian All-Star League Baseball' to 'Major Asean League Baseball'.. This move is essential towards the regionalization of Malaysian baseball, as well as unifying efforts of professionalizing baseball within this region.
All members of the Executive Board as well as the MALB Asean Series Tournament Committee were totally drained out, poofed, puffed, wasted.... Rosli, Endra, Faudzi, Amran, Fazlina, Lana, Farah, Intan, Najib, Raja, and gang, we put our all towards succeeding in the event. 3 months of sleepless nights, breathless days, mindful mornings, hectic noons, draining evenings, and endless meetings at nights. We even got death defying thrills when our tournament venue were cancelled of its bookings 3 days prior to the event. Thanks to Shahrizal from Patriots that went the extra mile to help us in securing the field at University Malaya.
At the end of it, we were satisfied, when we were bombarded with compliments and positive feedbacks from participating teams (foreign teams and 1 local team..) It was all worth it... all the sacrifices, pains and sufferings...
What's Next? MALB National Tour 08 - planning to take the MALB All-Star Team to Terengganu (scheduled for end of November) and Singapore and then Jakarta in December. Oh ya.. there's also the Umpiring and scoring clinic, scheduled for early November, to be conducted by our newly found associates from the Asean Series experience... and yes... Trainers for those clinics are certified by IBAF or at least BFA.
The MALB Central, Singaporean and Indonesian Divisional Leagues will commence in February or early March 09, and Malaysia will host again the MALB Asean Series 2009, hopefully with the addition of Thailand and Bruneian teams. We hope, that everything will be smooth sailing from here on... Let's pray together and hope for the best.
Go Baseball!!
3 comments:
Hey Kaydee. Just found out today that Malaysia has it's own league. Cool! I am a major baseball junkie and die hard fan of the Yankees (New York). So is this league open to high school players also or just college kids?
Forgot, so when does the 2009 season starts? I don't live in Selangor so I guess the only way I can catch up on the developements is by looking at the scoreboards and standings. BTW, if the commitee is expecting Malaysian baseball to take off, they'd have to start from ground up, developing players from pre-school levels. That's the only way we'll ever see our players and or teams playing at Major League level, and the best way to get Malaysia to love baseball. I'd one day really like to see a Malaysia at endears baseball! A Malaysia that can tell the difference between a baseball grand slam from a tennis grand slam. I've turned my dad into a baseball fan also.
Ana, thanks for your support and interest. Yes we do have our own league and its been going on since 2006. Currently we only have the Majors, and slowly developing the AAA and AA Leagues. One major obstacle is baseball parks.. Virtually non in Malaysia. We're making do with Football fields at schools, public parks and universities. Soon we'll have one, through private initiative funding. It'll be kingdom come when the government builds a baseball park.. ANyways, thanks for the support, and tell us where you are. Probably, we could take baseball to where you are. We do have promotional programs such as MALB National Tour and MALB International Tour, which is organized on an annual basis. For more information, please log on to http://malb.8m.com.
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