Joyner Makes Summer league All Star Team

Former Northern Nash Pitcher and now ECU Freshman Tyler Joyner recently made the New England College Baseball Summer League all star team playing for Laconia Muskrats.

Only pitching just over an inning for ECU in the spring Joyner needed work this summer and he has gotten it. He leads the Muskrats in innings pitched 45. He has struck out 53 in those innings. He has a 2-2 record and a great 1.97 era.

How silly is it for any news media put out a preseason all conference team. I was looking at the list the media voted on for the ACC preseason all conference team and there are two players on the list that might not even play.

There is the Carolina player whose eligibility is in question by the NCAA whether he has been receiving gifts and money from an agent. State has a player on the preseason picks that has a pending trial.

Seems to me there are a lot of people who don’t have anything to do but make stuff up. A preseason anything team is one of those made up deals.

I would like to pass only my congrats to Benton Moss and Hobbs Johnson who were named to the all state baseball team last week.

I’m stills scratching my head after Matthew Berry failing to make all conference in baseball this past high school season. He hit right at 450 on the season. Just to prove it wasn’t a fluke Matthew hit around 425 for Post 58 legion team. He’s a hitting machine.

Monday is August first and high school sports are officially practicing. The first games of the fall are around August 15th depending on what sport it is.

The oil well is finally capped in the Gulf and hopefully we can finally say the worse is over. It may still happen but it seems that what we all envisioned as oil washing ashore in North Carolina will not happen.

There are reports that BP and the Coast Guard are saying that their skimming operation has taken all the oil on top of the water and it is gone. We know some of it has come ashore along the Gulf Coast. Just how much has sunk to the bottom and we might not know about for fifty years is a big question to me.

Will there ever be fishing again in the Gulf? Just five years ago New Orleans was flooded and people were moving from the area in droves. We deal with life every day. The next problem is just around the corner.