All Stars Still Alive

Friday The Rocky Mount Tar Heel Little league all stars started the day off in the losers bracket after a heart breaking opening day loss of 4-3 to Coates in mountains of North Carolina at Valdese.

The first game of the day the Rocky Mount all stars took out one of the local teams Hildebrand by a 12-2 score. When ever you make it to the losers bracket that automatically means every one of your players needs to be able to pitch because as soon as Rocky Mount had disposed of Hildebrand, there stood the Ahoskie team awaiting.

Ahoskie lead 5-2 going into the fifth inning when the Rocky Mount all stars exploded for five runs and held on to win 7-5.

Today Rocky Mount is faced with in order to make it to Sunday's final game they must win two more games. They start this afternoon with Clayton who last night knocked Coates out with a 7-5 win. The Rocky Mount-Clayton winner will then meet the undefeated team and if the losers bracket team wins will play for the championship Sunday afternoon.

This 11-12 year old all star team lost their first game in the district tournament and fought their way back to win that tournament and go to the state tournament in Valdese.

Another name has popped up on that Court ordered sealed list of names of pro baseball players and drug testing. David Ortiz is the lastest name that failed a drug test in 2003 in which no names were ever to be made public.

We now know about seven of the names. I have several questions about the list. If their names were never to be used why were their names put on the test bottles to begin with? Who is suppose to have this sealed list now? Why not throw away the list and burn it so no other names can be listed, or go ahead and tell all the names and let's end all of this every three months a name popping up that nobody can prove anyway.

I think the fans have proven that we don't care who's on the list since these test were done before Major league baseball had any testing in place.

Let's just play ball !