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Tonites Post 58 Legion game against Wilson has been moved up to 6pm to try to beat any impending weather problems.


Coleman Pitt American Legion Post 58 game tonight at Wayne County was rained out.  I was in attendance to see the Tams in down town Rocky Mount and all the while had one eye peeled to the southern sky watching those clouds which never came north.

Starting Friday night CP 58 plays Friday at home, Saturday DH at home, off on Sunday and then play Monday at Kinston and Home Tuesday and Wednesday.  The only way to make up this rain for out tonight is Sunday and of course we don't know what Wayne County has on their plate for Sunday. Sure looks like baseball the 4th, fifth or sixth if need be to get the schedule in.

The NBA has completed the first round of the NBA draft and only two players were picked that had and connections to the State of North Carolina.  The way the NBA works if you are drafted in the first round you are guaranteed a contract for three years.  So if you are a bust in the NBA you will stay on the roster and will get all of the money whether you earned it or not.  Mason Plumlee of Duke and Kinston's Reggie Bullock were first round picks.

Any one else picked  pretty much has to go to camp and make the team that drafts you  and if you do that you will be given a contract.  If you don't make and NBA team then it is off to see the world and play for any professional team that is willing to pay you to play.  The average American player playing  across either ocean makes about $80,000 American dollars a year.  In baseball terms that's  minor league pay when you consider that the first round draft picks are all guaranteed at least a million a year for their first three years.

Ask The Question Somebody Knows

A couple of days ago I lamented on the fact that I had no idea what the standings were in the Area 1 American Legion.  Seek and ye shall find.  Here is the standing as of the end of Tuesday night.
Rocky Mount      5-1
Wayne County    5-3
Kinston               4-3
Edenton              4-3
Windsor             4-4
Pitt County         3-5
Albemarle          3-5
Wilson               3-8

There is no doubt all you need to do is substitute names of the Big East teams from the high school season and you will see that every team is right there in the middle.  Post 58 has two double headers up and coming this week.  Saturday they host Edenton.  Just suppose they were to lose both games.  They would fall back into the middle of the pack real quick.

Next week they have two games with Albemarle.  One that is already tied in the eighth inning and could lose that game in the twink of an eye.  So even though they look nice sitting on top there is work to be done.  The first order of business is a game tonight at Wayne County at Mt Olive College.  Talk about huge games but this one is.  Friday night Wilson  is at Legion Field and then a double header Saturday with Edenton.  The weather forecast is not good at all  through next week.

Tonight is the NBA draft.  Two of the first players to throw their eligibility in the hat was C J Leslie and Lo Brown of N C State.  At the time they were both rated middle of the first rounders.  Since then just about every player  that played college basketball this past season has declared for the draft.  Might not see either drafted in the first round which means they could have stayed one more year or play basketball next year in Brussels.  Tonight we will find out how many  draft declarers from around the world will get a guaranteed contract by being picked in the NBA first round.  There will be only 30 slots with about 100 leaving early.  Somebody surly made a mistake.  We will find out tonight who they were.