It’s tough squeezing in blogging on the weekends - today’s events included skiing, Chinese New Year celebrations at the kids’ Mandarin school, followed by Zak’s baseball camp tonight.

I’ve got enough time for a quick dispatch on Andrew Beattie, a prospective 3B for the Lynx. There’s an interesting bit of trivia about Andrew posted over at the Baron’s Corner:

“Andrew Beattie is 28-year-old infielder the Phillies in camp. He was signed as a minor league free agent this winder and has an interesting background. He was born in Philly, grew up in Clearwater and was the bat boy for the Clearwater Phillies in 1987.” (Punctuation/grammar is rough, but you get the picture).

Andrew was most recently part of the Oakland organization (although he appears to have briefly been a Milwaukee prospect last season), spending the better part of 2005 and 2006 in the Pacific Coast League. From 1998 to 2004, he’d been a Cincinatti prospect and had spent a couple of seasons in the International League as a member of the Louisville Bats. The Baseball Cube’s got his stats here.