The Process Of Life

Gryphon baseball returns to action today when they visit Webb high in Oxford. They will be home Wednesday hosting Roanoke Rapids.

Softball lost at Southern Vance 11-1. Our daughter Morgan who is the score keeper missed yesterday's game as we had a visit to doctors in Chapel Hill. We did look to our left as we passed the stoplight at the newly named Gryphon Dome which was formerly known as the Dean Smith Center.

I started working at the radio station in Ahoskie the summer just before my senior year in high school. Upon graduation, I become a disc jockey spinning the hits of the early 1970's. life was grand, as in a real small town like Ahoskie that crazy guy on the radio was known by every body who could pick me up on the radio.

Love popped into the picture in 1976 and there is all of a sudden this realization that this great life being a disc jockey has a lot of fringe benefits but money is not one of them. My first real job was selling washing machines at our Sears catalog store. Friday's you could find me in a booth calling football which now is my hobby.

Many of you know Wes Bradshaw. Much like me he has this affliction and passion for calling sports on the radio. You can throw being a PA announcer into the category, it's like radio but not heard as far.. His parents have been much more forgiving than mine were.

I think that time has come in Wes's life where that reality sets in when someone becomes special in your life and it is decision time on your future. Wes called me last night and we dicussed our plans for football coverage next fall. He also told me that he had given up his part time job of cutting meat in Pinetops and had a real job. A job that was going to interfere with ball games.

I know from experience that when something else gets in the way of a ball game your life is spinning around. For Wes, that something else must be love.

His life and mine have several parallels. If his continues like mine then he will have a game or two in which he has to work and will miss a game. Then that dreaded, I can't do it at all this season because my work won't let me.

Man, what we all go through in that thing called the Process of life.