If you've looked out your windows or been outside today, you've seen the rain, which has poured down in buckets.

Not trying to be a pessimist here, but it doesn't look like any baseball games will be played this afternoon. That means the full Del Val and Central League slates will be pushed back to another day or just outright cancelled, considering the district-playoff seeding meeting is this Thursday.

What does that mean? Well, it's one less win/loss a team can accrue to either bolster/harm its District One playoffs resume. We'll see how this all plays out, but more coming on the district playoff seedings as the week progresses.

ALL-DELCO CONSIDERATION
On another topic, I've received a recent flurry of e-mails about All-Delco consideration for baseball. As I did during the boys basketball season, I'm going to employ an open-door policy: If you have a baseball player you'd like to nominate for the All-Delco team, either e-mail me(christopheravito@gmail.com) or leave a post on the blog. Remember, the First Team gets 10 players (one at each position, plus a player of the year). I look forward to hearing from you.

Chester made it all the way to the PIAA Class AAAA title game last year, before falling to eventual champ Schenley (pictured, courtesy Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).

The road to the state tournament is set, with the District One Class AAAA seedings announced Sunday. Here's where Delco's teams landed. Higher seeds host Friday's games:

1 Chester vs. 32 Methacton
5 Penn Wood vs. 28 Central Bucks South
6 Ridley vs. 27 Owen J. Roberts
8 Lower Merion vs. 25 Academy Park
9 Conestoga vs. 24 Council Rock South
18 Glen Mills vs. 15 Plymouth-Whitemarsh
21 Haverford vs. 12 Cheltenham
23 Garnet Valley vs. 10 Coatesville
26 Upper Darby vs. 7 Downingtown West
30 Chichester vs. 3 Pennsbury

In my last notebook, I projected that as many as eight Delco teams could make the tournament. I'm surprised so many got in, but I'm not complaining. The complexion of the game changes in the playoffs. I'm pumped for Friday.

Everyone this Sunday will be thinking about one thing: the 18-0 New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady.

But Delaware County basketball fans and I will be more concerned with the seedings of District One's Class AAAA tournament, which are released Super Bowl Sunday. It looks as if Delco could see as many as eight teams making the tournament.

Bad news for Chester fans though: If the PIAA's new points system puts more weight on an undefeated season than on strength of schedule, the Clippers could be out of luck. Norristown, which sits at 20-0, might get the top seed with the 20-1 Clippers in the No. 2 slot (despite the fact that their only loss is to the nation's top team in St. Benedict's).

Stay tuned to this blog Sunday afternoon (peeling yourself away from the TV, of course) for information on the Class AAAA district tournament and where your favorite team is seeded.