Another Rain Out For Post 58

This low pressure system off the coast has scratched another game off the schedule for Coleman Pitt Post 58.  If my count is right we have lost six games to weather, two early on when neither side was ready to start the season and had to forfeit one.  They stand at 5-5 over all and 5-1 in area one  play and as of right now still have eight more conference games to make up because this strange season has taken another twist to add I can't believe this.

I have very few official details but Ahoskie Post 102 has cancelled the rest of their season after an incident after their game Thursday night.  That's all I know as of this moment or should I say that is all I am willing to say publicly about now.  What the league has done as anyone who has played Post 102 will drop that game as if it has not been played at all and any team like Post 58 who was suppose to go to Ahoskie  this Tuesday for a double header will not.  Instead of 16 conference games we are now down to 14. Does anybody know the number to Ripley's Believe It Or Not.  That is the kind of season this has been.

Since this spring during the Big East season the entire league was average and since most of the players are suppose to be from the Nash County Big East area that would lead that Post 58 is an average team this year.  However not that many players are from the Big East but with the players added from other areas  this team still has the qualities of a Big East team.  Light hitting and fair to Midland   pitching.  That is how this team has played so far.

How can you explain that with this type team that at this point this team is 5-1 in conference games.  Well, the good answer is awesome coaching and Hank Jones and Pat Smith are  hard to beat when looking at  other coaching combo's in the area that are better.  I wish I could say that was the answer but quite frankly the entire conference looks like the Big East.

Our only loss was to Wayne County and it was our worse game of the year defensively.  WC is solid but not a team that makes me shake in my boots.  This season is one of those seasons that if this was another year we might be in the lower part of the standing but we are as good as anybody this year.  So why is that?  There are many answers and each one is a good answer if I was on Family Feud.

Travel Ball is stealing players but this year not that many good players from this area playing travel.  Beach, Legion comes right when high school ends  and last until July 10 and then the playoffs.  Kids have cars today and can go where ever they want.  Here is the one that I think digs deep into baseball's future.  I just don't see enough players that love the game that would get up at 9am and play all day  and go back and play some more after supper.  Yes Post 58 has three or four of those guys but back in my day the whole team was filled with every gym rats.  Playing baseball in 95 degree weather is too much work when I could be at the beach or in front of a TV screen playing John Madden.

We live in a different world today.