• Just like it takes more time for fields to dry at Happy Rock, The Happy Rock Top Ten List can have more than Ten, Top Tens in the list.
• The list is not in any specific order just like game times at Happy Rock.
• If you have sent in your Top Ten Reason and it is not posted yet, please be patient. We are probably at a Happy Rock tournament and in a rain delay - oops, that would be a sprinkle delay.

And now the Happy Rock Top Ten List:

1. Happy Rock - where "Field-Dry" does not come in a bag but is just sunshine, 24 hours and a stiff wind.
2. Happy Rock is actually an abbreviated shortened form of the original name of the Park - Happy Crock.
3. Happy Rock - where Happy Gilmore learned to play ball in hip high waders.
4. The Happy Rock Time Zone - where everything that is late is really on time because you are so far behind you are actually passing yourself in time and are ahead of yourself. Or so they say in Gladstone.
5. The Happy Rock Black Hole - A place in the universe where tournament times are shortened and players are sucked into the infield mud.
6. Happy Rock - where fields are designed to hold rain water in puddles so the Gladstone City Park crew knows where to rake.
7. You have heard of "Two Men and a Truck". Well the Happy Rock Grounds Crew is two men and a rake.
8. Happy Rock - where the outfields are in perfect condition because the infields are always so wet they rarely play on the fields.
9. Happy Rock - "Field-Dry", when they have a bag of it, is placed only on the baselines. The runners won't slip - Oh, we forgot the infielders actually move too.
10. Happy Rock, in Gladstone, Missouri - where you could meet Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone if only it had been sophisticated enough to keep their attention.
11. No, we are not playing at Happy Rock this weekend. We decided to play in Omaha because it's easier to get to.
12. Happy Rock - farther from the center of KC than KCI.
13. Happy Rock - where "Puddle Hopping" originated.
14. Happy Rock - where fields are designed to drain by having the infield lower than the outfield so outfielders feet don't get wet.
15. Happy Rock - where the phrase "we got rained out" has been replaced with "we got sprinkled out".
16. Happy Rock - where "we are in a rain delay" has been replaced with "we are in a sprinkle delay".
17. Happy Rock - where just like washing your car will cause it to rain, having a tournament at Happy Rock will cause it to sprinkle and delay play.
18. Happy Rock - where the name was shortened from Happy Rock Springs to Happy Rock and then sold to Gladstone City Parks who built fields over the springs.
19. Happy Rock - where the famous phrase "If you build it, they will come" has been changed to "If you play our tournament, you will be in rain delay".
20. Happy Rock - The Fast Pitch purgatory.
21. Happy Rock - where RAIN is a four letter word and RAKE is a word, but not an object to possess.
22. Happy Rock - where the rainout line is a long distance call.
23. Happy Rock - where the rainout line is always busy.
24. Happy Rock - where the outfield fences are so far away you need binoculars to read the distance signs.
25. Happy Rock - where temporary fences are always in storage.
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Our third tournament will be June 8 & 9 at Happy Rock in Gladstone, Missouri.

Game times will be posted when they are recieved next week so check back at that time.

The Wind Warriors came into existence in 1992 when Greg Loveless coached his daughter's team. In 1999 Coach Loveless took over the L'Eagles. The L'Eagles attended Regionals in 2000 and took second at the ASA 16U 2000 Midwest Nationals and qualified for the 2001 ASA 16U Nationals. Starting with a new team in 2002 the L'Eagles again qualified for ASA Nationals through Midwest Region #12.

For information about the previous years see the L'Eagles web site at www.leagles.org.