Believe It Or Not It's Baseball Season

There is and old saying, it's five o'clock somewhere. Today was the start of college baseball for some just about everybody except Division 1 baseball. If you dared to go outside today I doubt there was any baseball in North Carolina.

Juco baseball season cranked up last weekend and now with Brian Goodwin playing center field for Miami Dade Community College they have already played five games heading into today's game. It will not be easy keeping up with Brian way down in Miami as I was on their website tonight and they do not have any stats posted of any games.

Thursday major league baseball held the Hot Stove League Mock draft of eligible players for the upcoming draft in June. Brian Goodwin was picked in the first round by Tampa Bay Rays. Another Nash County prospect getting a good look this spring will be Xavier Macklin who is in his junior year at NCA&T. If Benton Moss has any kind of senior year like his first three high school seasons he may be drafted as well.

Moss very well might be looking like Brian Goodwin and Tyler Joyner after their senior high school seasons and it may come down to whether the pro baseball teams feel they can sign him right out of high school. I am hearing Benton is headed to Carolina regardless of his draft status. I hope I am not putting a hex on Benton Moss when I say this but I believe Benton will graduate from Carolina and will play for the Tar Heels all four years. He would be the first Gryphon to do so in quite a while.

I not saying I think he's going to be a great pitcher in college because who knows what the future brings but Benton seems to have the focus to be able to reach his goals in life where some before him didn't. We hear the term "IT" all the time about some players . I think Benton has "IT" mentally and is a dog gone good athlete too. Benton is a born leader and you don't become captain of your travel league team by just playing good.

Browsing the Campbell Website tonight I found out something about last year that I did not know. Ben Fish made all Atlantic Sun All Academic team last season. A belated congratulations on that award Ben.

I'll be on TV starting at 2.30 Sunday afternoon with the 2011 Relay For Life show. Later Sunday night the Rocky Mount Prep -Mount Zion basketball from this week will be on the Stretchlon Sports Show.