St. Mary's baseball future ... Roofs and Haases

Lawrence Durbin is taking over St. Mary's baseball program this fall, as we reported earlier this week, and there is talk in the St. Mary community about a master plan, of sorts, that plots out the program for the next decade or so.

Don't be surprised if former major leaguer Phil Roof is in the Vikings' dugout in coming years, as he has some grandchildren expected to be in the program. Roof spent more than a decade in the big leagues as a catcher, then spent the next 30 years as a coach and manager on the minor league and major league levels, most recently as the manager of the Minnesota Twins' Triple-A team in Salt Lake City.

Then, the story goes, former St. Mary star Chris Haas would take over about the time that his son and nephew get into the program. Chris was a first-round draft choice out of St. Mary in 1995, but never made it to the major leagues.

I've always kidded Chris — who was coached by his father, Louis Haas, in high school — that in a few years, he and older brother Andy Haas will be in the coaching boxes with their father in the dugout, still calling the shots. Looks like it could be reality in a little less than a decade.