Could Somebody Tell Me How

I just don't know how T J Warren of NC State  is voted the best basketball player in the ACC and yet he makes second Team All American while Jabari Parker of Duke  makes the first team.   Can somebody splain that one.

Tiger Woods has had back surgery this week and will not be at Augusta next week. While I will be filling a bucket list and make my first appearance there on Tuesday.  The TV Networks worry that without Tiger TV ratings will be down.  The Masters  was the greatest golf tournament in the world before Tiger ever played there and it still will be the greatest long after he is gone.

Thursday afternoon Brian Goodwin will play his first AAA baseball game in Syracuse New York playing for the Chiefs.  The Chiefs play in PNB Stadium.  Brian is one step or one outfield injury by a Washington Nationals player from the major leagues.

Hobbs Johnson in June of last year was pitching for the North Carolina Tarheels. He signed with Milwaukee Brewers and started out in the short season rookie league.  A couple weeks he was promoted to the lower level A league. And starting today Hobbs will be pitching in Brevard  Florida in the upper level A league.  Both of the former Rocky Mount Gryphons are moving forward in their efforts to make their dreams come true and the dreams are still alive of making the major leagues.

After  Tuesday night there has been a slight shift in the placing of teams in Big East Baseball. Fike finds themselves as the lone team without a loss after beating Rocky Mount 3-2 in extra innings.

If you haven't heard this score brace yourself as Hunt Beat Southern Nash  24-0 Tuesday.  Southern's first two conference game they had given up just 4 runs.  This gets Hunt to 2-1 while Southern  drops to 0-3 and tied at the bottom with Rocky Mount.

Nash Central's 3-1 victory over Northern  ties them at 2-1 with Northern and now Hunt.  Friday Rocky Mount travels to Southern and after then only one team will have not won a conference game.

It is obvious to me that at least four on the conference teams can beat each other at any time. Fike, Hunt, Northern and Nash Central.  Rocky Mount or Southern depending on which one wins Friday just might join the other four.

DuringTuesday nights  Fike-Rocky Mount game there was an incident that makes you wonder what Happened.  Fike had runners on first and second and a  2-2 count  on the batter. Ball three is thrown to the batter and the batter takes off to first as if he has been walked so the two runners on first and second start to slowly advance to 3rd and 2nd. The umpire calls the batter back because it is only ball three but the two runners keep going to the next base as if they have been force to the next base by ball four.

What in fact happened was to me to be the slowest double steal in the history of baseball.  Since neither runner was forced Rocky Mount could have thrown both out trying to steal but in all the confusion nobody knew what to do.  Finally the umpire made both runners go back to where their original base was.

During the TV interview after the game Fike coach Buck Edmonson told me the ruling was the umpire called time out.  Still to me he called time out in the middle of a double steal. There is that old saying that you can see something new every time you go to a baseball game.  We did see something new Tuesday.