The first day of the North Carolina State American Legion Tournament was not kind to the two representatives from Area One Wilson and Garner. Just a little review Wilson won the Area one East and Garner the Area One West. Instead of playing a two out of three with the winner being seeded as Area One 1st and the loser Area One number two. As it turned out Garner drew the number one and in doing so played High Point Friday leaving Wilson to play the host Rowan County in Salisbury at Catawba College.
The third game of the day sent Garner on the field as the home team and after seven innings Garner led 7-6 but High Point scored four in the eighth and another five in the ninth to win 15-7. This throws Garner into the losers bracket and they hit the field early Saturday morning meeting Caldwell County who was a 6-2 loser to Hope Mills in the first game Friday morning.
The night cap game of the first day Coach Rusty Dail sent Fike Ace Brandon Winstead to the hill. During the high school season Winstead was 12-1 with a 1.76 era for the Golden Demons. During Legion season with Post 13 winning 20 games and losing only four games and Rocky Mount's Blake Helms tying Winstead with a 4-1 and an era of 1.00 mark after he was 8-2 during high school you would think Post 13 will have great pitching set up for this week's tournament.
Rowan County score once in the first and six in the second and they were on cruise control after that as Wilson Post 13 falls in seven innings 12-2. This drops Post 13 into the 12:30 Saturday losers bracket game where they will meet Heywood County who took it on the chin to Eastern Randolph 8-3.
Friday, July 24, 2015
The Brady Dilemma
It is my opinion that Tom Brady was in cahoots with somebody and had the NFL football deflated to fit his hand and comfort. It has been about a month now since there was the big meeting at NFL Headquarters where Brady got to sit across the table from NFL commissioner Roger Gooddell. A month and no decision.
Now that I have pondered this incident since January it seems to me that why would the NFL allow anyone other than an NFL official touch the balls before a game and even during the game unless they were touched as part of an ongoing game. Baseball has the umpires rub up with mud from the bottom of a Delaware river the baseballs used in every game. They don't let today's pitcher rub them up.
I understand the want for every quarterback to have balls shaped to fit the hand of the thrower it has to be easier to throw that way. You know even high schools use their own balls. What would stop from a punter putting a small amount of helium in a football to make it travel farther when punted. You surely could not fill a ball with 100% helium or the ball may never come down.
Yes I think Brady is guilty, so if he gets four games suspension or two games it doesn't matter he has threatened to sue the NFL if that happens. The NFL fined the Patriots a million dollars for letting this go on. Suppose they fined Brady but let him continue to play. I guess the question is this. Is his crime of doctoring footballs worse than drunk driving, wife beating, carrying around guns and shooting yourself as has happened to NFL players?
Our society today if you happen to go to court you can wiggle out of murder and you get fined and put on probation for five years. Seems to me that deflating footballs until the NFL takes control of the balls away from each team that they need to have a football referee on both sidelines. Every play when you see a new ball thrown out to the official putting the next ball in play should come from and NFL ref on the sidelines that has control of the balls. Remember you got to watch out for those sneaky punters they are deceitful as quarterbacks.
I heard that a brand new floor is now in the gym at Northern Nash and those wooden bleachers that have been there since the gym opened in the 60's have been removed and replace by those modern plastic one's like at Nash Central and Rocky Mount.
I have done several games on the radio or TV from that top row and a short person with a bad knee like me have many times struggled to take a step to the next seat up making my way to the top. The past few years I have been on the stage more which is much better than navigating those old wood bleachers. Can't wait to see the inside now.
Now that I have pondered this incident since January it seems to me that why would the NFL allow anyone other than an NFL official touch the balls before a game and even during the game unless they were touched as part of an ongoing game. Baseball has the umpires rub up with mud from the bottom of a Delaware river the baseballs used in every game. They don't let today's pitcher rub them up.
I understand the want for every quarterback to have balls shaped to fit the hand of the thrower it has to be easier to throw that way. You know even high schools use their own balls. What would stop from a punter putting a small amount of helium in a football to make it travel farther when punted. You surely could not fill a ball with 100% helium or the ball may never come down.
Yes I think Brady is guilty, so if he gets four games suspension or two games it doesn't matter he has threatened to sue the NFL if that happens. The NFL fined the Patriots a million dollars for letting this go on. Suppose they fined Brady but let him continue to play. I guess the question is this. Is his crime of doctoring footballs worse than drunk driving, wife beating, carrying around guns and shooting yourself as has happened to NFL players?
Our society today if you happen to go to court you can wiggle out of murder and you get fined and put on probation for five years. Seems to me that deflating footballs until the NFL takes control of the balls away from each team that they need to have a football referee on both sidelines. Every play when you see a new ball thrown out to the official putting the next ball in play should come from and NFL ref on the sidelines that has control of the balls. Remember you got to watch out for those sneaky punters they are deceitful as quarterbacks.
I heard that a brand new floor is now in the gym at Northern Nash and those wooden bleachers that have been there since the gym opened in the 60's have been removed and replace by those modern plastic one's like at Nash Central and Rocky Mount.
I have done several games on the radio or TV from that top row and a short person with a bad knee like me have many times struggled to take a step to the next seat up making my way to the top. The past few years I have been on the stage more which is much better than navigating those old wood bleachers. Can't wait to see the inside now.
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