Apathy Can Be A Cancer

Coleman Pitt Post 58 has advanced to the second round of the Area one playoffs by never setting foot on the diamond.  The reason the Post 24 team from New Bern disgusted at how poorly their season had gone  and just enough of their players stayed home you need eight to start a game that there was no need to make the trip to Rocky Mount twice.

Our society these days has so much pulling and tugging at our young men.  The beach, a holiday weekend maybe even other teams to play for that were more successful than what Post 24 had been.  I think we all knew that after Sunday night's game was forfeited that there was very little chance of there being a game Monday night.

If New Bern had of been able to muster enough players to put a team on the field  the score would probably been an  embarrassment for  them  and would have never given Post 58 more than what they could get in practicing among themselves.

When teams reach the point of where  they think there is no hope there probably isn't.  David had to think he could beat Goliath or he never could have had the nerve to throw the stone.  I don't  think New Bern didn't have the nerve they just didn't care any more.  When you lose that desire in your heart you have lost what ever goal you were shooting for.  That is not only on the ball field but in every day life.

Coleman Pitt Post 58 has advanced to the second round but they face a hot good team in Wayne County.  We needed to play New Bern Monday just so our pitchers could throw one inning to try to get some of the cobwebs off their arms.  Our hitters needed to get their eyes back focused on pitch  and count and the groove in their swings.  CP 58's defense has been outstanding  in the games when there was something to play for.  They too  as fielders it will be just like the first game of the season needing to get sharp against a team that is playing on all cylinders.

Post 58 these are obstacles  but not a road block.  They must use the apathy one team had and use it as a positive and look at this vacation as rest for the still possible 13 games left before they can possibly make it to the State Tournament.  They need to think we are 2-0 in the playoffs and heading into the second round and we have the home field advantage.  Bring them On!

Today's Professional Sports Getting Back to Reality

Wayne Co knocked off Edenton last night (7-3) to wrap up that series and will now play Post 58 Thursday night at Nash Central 7.00pm.  Wilson evened their series with Kinston and Pitt Co beat Ahoskie to finish off that series.

The NFL is in the last stages of an Owners strike or as it is known as a lock out.  The NBA is in their first week of ownership saying we cannot exist the way we are going now.  Players crying that they blame the owners for the consequence they are in  it is not the players fault.  Our area of the country has already been in what professionals sports are just now seeing.  Life is not a lottery win every day.

The late stages of 2008 our area felt the pinch of  a world not buying every luxury made.  Early 2009 many local companies were laying off and if you were lucky you were told we are putting on a freeze in wages and in order to keep your job you will not get a quarter of an hour raise this year.

That didn't stop health insurance from going up or the price of bread to rise from 99 cents a loaf to two dollars and there was never a stop in the gas price which hit $4 per gallon on some people.  The business world said if you want to keep your job here is the circumstance we all face.  If you don't like it go find a job that will get you that 25 cent raise this year.

The federal, state, county and local governments are all in the same boat.  The tax dollars are not pouring in like it use too when everyone lived the life of a lottery winner.  Jobs are lost because the government can't send you to the next government job for 25 cents per hour more there are none.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who wins the lottery and ten years later is bankrupt.  Why should I feel sorry for  the worse professional athlete that as the worse makes a half million dollars a year and just because there is a work stoppage he is bankrupt.

There are not as many as we are lead to believe but  there are a few athletes making  ten million or more.  The average smo probably makes 800,000 a year.  If you can't figure out how to save some of that  then you need to come back and dig ditches at $10 an hour and learn how too.

The owners can't fill up stadiums but as owners have a right to try to make a profit in order to stay in business.  They like everyone else thought the good times would last forever.  They built billion dollar stadiums most of it with government money which they find empty seats during every game.  The lottery winning is over.  Athletes may have to accept life like the rest of us and if the average smo can only get a half million  so be it.  You know the Kobe's of the world instead of 15 million a year may have to get by on eight million.  They should all pray to God and be thankful or comeback and dig ditches with us.