The full seven inning game with Albemarle Post 84 plus the end of the game now in the 8th inning has been rained out tonight. As of right now I do not know of the possible make up date either Thursday or Saturday are only dates open. Play offs start Sunday night. Right now the top four spots are still up for grabs so every game will have to be made up to get the proper seeding.
If there was ever any question as to whether the old Rocky Mount High School field and now Legion Field is a quality baseball facility the answer is yes. When all other fields in Eastern North Carolina are under water there was a top notch nine inning game played there tonight. The result is not in favor of Coleman Pitt Post 58 but tonight's game is the best game I have seen played all spring and summer. Kinston wins 3-1.
This being the last week of the regular season all conference games need to be finished by Saturday night Kinston field was unplayable by noon today so in order to have any chance of Kinston finishing all their games they need to play seven by Saturday night Our trip to Kinston tonight was moved to Rocky Mount and we will go there Wednesday night.
Coleman Pitt score one in the first on a hit by David Williams and and rbi single by Adam Bayless but Kinston starting pitcher Garrett Blackbunn decided that was going to be it for the night for Post 58. It isn't like P58 didn't have chances as they could muster but five hits but five base on balls and two errors kept P 58 pecking away but never again did they cross home.
P 58 pitcher Jeremy Johnson pitched even better the first five innings but Post 43 struck for one in the sixth on three hits. The game was tied 1-1 and Johnson had two outs in the eighth when P58 defense gave the game away. A throwing error on a tough play got the first runner on. Then a fly ball drops for a hit after P58 outfielder never saw the ball off the bat. Even then no one had scored until another ball heading to the gap was run down but dropped after hitting squarely in the glove. Two runs cross the plate which would be the ball game.
P58 had chances in the 8th and 9th but Blackbunn wouldn't let anyone score. Blackbunn went nine innings gave up five hits, five walks and one earned run. Only one P58 batter struck out on the night. Jeremy Johnson went seven and two thirds innings giving up five hits, hit one batter and struck out 10 P 43 batters. Johnson defensive mates let him down after maybe the best pitching performance of his career.
P 58 has little time to rest as they play Albemarle Tuesday night at home in what now is the last regular season game at home. Post 58 plays at Kinston Wednesday and at Wayne County Friday night. Tonight drops P58 to 8-2 in conference and Kinston is up to 5-3. Rocky Mount still has one less loss with four left to play while Kinston has six games left to play this week and there is no doubt Wednesday's match with Rocky Mount just could be for first place.
Kinston takes down Post 58 3-1 and Post 58 will finish up the extra inning game with Albemarle starting at 5:30 Tuesday and play a seven inning game immediately after play another one.
Monday, July 1, 2013
The 2013 NBA Draft
The rains we have already had today the field in Kinston is unplayable for tonight so the game has been moved to Rocky Mount. Now we all can see rain falling here and in spots it has been heavy so the only hope to keep on a schedule is to flip flop games. So tonight P 58 is home to Kinston. I will keep you updated whether the game can be play at Legion Field in Rocky Mount. Will need some sunshine this afternoon.
Is there anyone who knows how much money pro sports really makes? I watch more of the NBA draft from about pick 15 until the end of the first round than I have watched NBA basketball during the 2013 season. That thing done out on the basketball court they call basketball makes me sick to watch so I don't watch it.
I am amazed at how they just throw money out to players who can't play basketball. The word potential will get a person six feet five a million dollars just because somebody thinks he might be taught how to play basketball. This is pro basketball in order to be a pro you are already suppose to know more than an eighth grader about how to play. One of those basketball analyst reading off the traits of one of those first round picks had a list longer of what he couldn't do than what he could. This is basketball and if on my negatives they have the word can't shoot. Please leave him alone. If at 19 years old a player who has spent all of his life on a play ground playing ball he will never learn how to shoot.
NBA owners are stupid enough to pay a million or more to try to teach him. I guess all those jerseys and TV money the owners are rolling in they are embarrassed to keep it all to themselves. There will be a point in time that people will get fed up with paying $200 a ticket or when the game comes on TV they watch soccer or Lacrosse instead. and the TV ratings dry up so goes the money. You may laugh about soccer or LaCrosse but here is a prediction. Raleigh is less that 15 years away from a major soccer franchise but no where near a Pro basketball team. There is going to be a stadium in Raleigh that will hold 40,000 soccer fans soon.
What little bit of the NBA finals that I watch LeBron James did about all he could do. His line in one game was 18 points 11 rebounds and 11 assists. The experts were whining about how bad he played. James reminds me of Wilt Chamberlain. He was a monster at over seven feet and no one could handle him except Bill Russell. If it were not for Bill Russell Wilt would have been the greatest basketball player in the history of the world but Bill won titles and Wilt got a couple.
LeBron plays guard and when he take off going to the basket it's like a bull in a china shop. He is not that good a passer only average shooter from beyond 20 feet but I will give him credit for one thing, he makes everybody on his team better. LeBron is so big he has no grace at all on the court. Magic was his size but he could pass, shoot and one thing he could do is play center if need be. What makes James so much better than everyone is his huge size over anyone who is going to guard him. Big men can't stay up with him and he beats small men to death.
I don't have a lot of respect for coaches like Doc Rivers. Rivers wanted out of Boston because he didn't want to be part of a rebuilding program. What does that tell me? He's not much of a coach is he. How many championships did he coach until Boston management brought in a team that could win it once? I don't know many coaches that the satisfaction of coaching is seeing players get better regardless of winning a championship or not. I think Rivers likes that money that goes with being a winning coach. I kind of hope now that Chris Paul jumps ship in LA and leaves Rivers with a rebuilding team. Serves him right.
Is there anyone who knows how much money pro sports really makes? I watch more of the NBA draft from about pick 15 until the end of the first round than I have watched NBA basketball during the 2013 season. That thing done out on the basketball court they call basketball makes me sick to watch so I don't watch it.
I am amazed at how they just throw money out to players who can't play basketball. The word potential will get a person six feet five a million dollars just because somebody thinks he might be taught how to play basketball. This is pro basketball in order to be a pro you are already suppose to know more than an eighth grader about how to play. One of those basketball analyst reading off the traits of one of those first round picks had a list longer of what he couldn't do than what he could. This is basketball and if on my negatives they have the word can't shoot. Please leave him alone. If at 19 years old a player who has spent all of his life on a play ground playing ball he will never learn how to shoot.
NBA owners are stupid enough to pay a million or more to try to teach him. I guess all those jerseys and TV money the owners are rolling in they are embarrassed to keep it all to themselves. There will be a point in time that people will get fed up with paying $200 a ticket or when the game comes on TV they watch soccer or Lacrosse instead. and the TV ratings dry up so goes the money. You may laugh about soccer or LaCrosse but here is a prediction. Raleigh is less that 15 years away from a major soccer franchise but no where near a Pro basketball team. There is going to be a stadium in Raleigh that will hold 40,000 soccer fans soon.
What little bit of the NBA finals that I watch LeBron James did about all he could do. His line in one game was 18 points 11 rebounds and 11 assists. The experts were whining about how bad he played. James reminds me of Wilt Chamberlain. He was a monster at over seven feet and no one could handle him except Bill Russell. If it were not for Bill Russell Wilt would have been the greatest basketball player in the history of the world but Bill won titles and Wilt got a couple.
LeBron plays guard and when he take off going to the basket it's like a bull in a china shop. He is not that good a passer only average shooter from beyond 20 feet but I will give him credit for one thing, he makes everybody on his team better. LeBron is so big he has no grace at all on the court. Magic was his size but he could pass, shoot and one thing he could do is play center if need be. What makes James so much better than everyone is his huge size over anyone who is going to guard him. Big men can't stay up with him and he beats small men to death.
I don't have a lot of respect for coaches like Doc Rivers. Rivers wanted out of Boston because he didn't want to be part of a rebuilding program. What does that tell me? He's not much of a coach is he. How many championships did he coach until Boston management brought in a team that could win it once? I don't know many coaches that the satisfaction of coaching is seeing players get better regardless of winning a championship or not. I think Rivers likes that money that goes with being a winning coach. I kind of hope now that Chris Paul jumps ship in LA and leaves Rivers with a rebuilding team. Serves him right.
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