"It's a little bit of my baseball dream," said Mr. Marzano, who said he got a one-day tryout with the Yankees' farm system as a teenager.
The message was the first tryout of a government-sponsored system that would alert frontline health care workers of bioterrorist attacks.
This system got an unplanned tryout during the big summer power failure in 2003.
The new system will get a tryout in October as part of the Tokyo QKD Network, in which researchers will use various systems to connect two buildings belonging to Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and three other buildings.
And, really, even if he doesn't do well in his tryout, he will be in a major league team's system next spring.
His uncle, David Torres, played in the St . LouisCardinals system and trained young Miguel, who landed a tryout with the Marlins at 15 and received a $1.8 million signing bonus at 16.
Assuming Tebow does well in his tryout later this month, he will be in a major league team's system next spring.
Corona's tryout was successful and the club took him in to be part of their youth system.
The tryout with the Westchester Flames, a perennial semipro power in the Major League Soccer developmental system, would be the first step toward a pro career.
