Tar River Time

The Tar River Children's Chorus is leaving at 7.00am Friday morning to travel to Charleston South Carolina to preform this weekend in the Piccolo Spoleto Music Festival. Tar River is much like following you kids when they play ball and this weekend is the big tournament for Tar River.

I started doing this blog on August First of 2008 and during that time I have missed very few days of putting something on here. This trip however will sideline me until Monday night when we return.

I hope that a TV and a computer are unknown in South Carolina and for three days I lose contact with the outside world.

That first month when we started writing here I was about the only person that knew anything about this blog but I want to thank each of you that have given me a few seconds of your day to read what I post here. There is a core group of you that are with me everyday.

My household I am lucky because my wife goes to bed with the chickens and Morgan is sideline at 10.00pm on school days to get off the computer. So the computer is mine after ten each night and by that time most games are over that you might want to know about.

You know it is funny the way technology has changed the world. Use to be that the phone was the hot item in a house, now everyone wants the computer you can have the telephone. Still Morgan talks on the cell phone and at the same time talks with someone else on Facebook. What a world we live in.

Have a great Holiday weekend!

Legion Season Underway

Post 58 American Legion season has started quicker than those at Rocky Mount High school would have like. Gryphon players would still like to be in the state high school playoffs but a quick exit from the tournament has allowed Post 58 to get some games in this week which had originally been left blank hoping one team from the area would still be in the playoffs.

Last Saturday coach Hank Jones and "Baseball"Britt Johnson held tryout" and last night Post 58 traveled to Durham to play a double header to open the season. Post 58 won the opener 7-2 but lost the night cap 3-2 .

Had an e-mail from Don Fish when I got to work this morning telling me he was up late last night having just gotten back from Asheboro where son Ben Fish and Xavier Macklin are members of the Wilmington Coastal Plains team this summer.

Ben went 2-4 while X man was 0-4 in the season opener. If you recall Xavier started last year at the Wilson Tobs but changed mid season back to Post 58 and finished the Legion season. The Coastal Plains League is a wooden bat league in which players who think they one day might play pro ball can start getting use to hitting wood over the ping of the aluminum.

X-man has as much potential as any player from our area to make it in pro baseball but he has had a hard time adjusting to wooden bats over aluminum. Summer college leagues are where these players try to make the transition to wood but it also gives them a chance to play 70 games against other college players at about the same level they are.

I didn't know there was such a thing but there is a division two in Junior college baseball and Lenoir CC has made it to the world series. That will send three more area players to playoffs this weekend at Faith Christian player Zack and Patrick Johnson and Rocky Mount's Gabe Brown will be traveling.

Turn the TV on and Boston College and Miami are in the12th inning in a 10-10 game. Being as frank as I can be here we are the second day of the ACC and there is only one team that has any pitching at all and that is Virginia. Next week when the Regionals begin Virginia may be the only team to win and make it to the super regionals. If any body else makes it to a super regional that tells me nobody else has pitching either.