Coach.

Gary Sinise and William Petersen seem die-hard and rather knowledgeable. Very non-hack.

...they limped home with a 20-30 record over their last 50.

Objects in their mirror are closer than they appear.

I'm sure he'll be very impressed.

Who even thinks to put in a rule like that? Especially in a HS tournament :roll: When I was stationed at MCAS Iwakuni, we played a modified fast pitch tournament in town with a rubberized ball. The championship game was tied at the end of seven innings and the umps told us to line up across the team from Japan. Not kidding, to play best-of-nine rock-paper-scissors to determine the champion. They won 5-4 and celebrated like the 1980 US hockey team.

At first, I thought he just misspelled "rake".

Don Kessinger (same birthday as me along with Lou Boudreau -- heard it growing up every July 17th on Wally Phillips)

Mid 70's and the Lena Pony and Colt leagues are taking their annual trip, this time to County Stadium to see the Royals play the Brewers. Our busses arrived very early, so we're just standing around the parking lot, screwing off and pissing off the parents who were brave enough to chaperone. Who pulls up and gets out of their car, but Hank Aaron. For a good 15 seconds, he's 10 yards from me and no one else notices. I freeze and do absolutely nothing. Suddenly, a swarm of autograph seekers surrounds him, and I'm in "I got a rock" mode.

So true. It is BY FAR the best sport to attend in-person. Not even close. In fact, I'm heading down to Raleigh right now to see the Hawks.

Who would own them? Where would they play? Those are good questions, I was just spitballing. Certainly I'd think if the Cubs put it out there to the right people that they were taking proposals to move to the Carolina League they could find someone interested in putting a package together for them. Fredericksburg, VA is trying to build a stadium, but is having problems luring the Hagerstown Suns (So. Atlantic League Class A).

I still consider the 7th Inning Stretch singing as cheesy Harry Caray White Sox schtick.

I know a lot of Cub fans, both "meatball" and "intelligent". Not one of them dislikes Mark Prior. Dusty is an altogether different topic.

This. Really don't want to go to work tomorrow. This and This. I never thought being bed ridden from total knee replacement last week would work out so well! Drinks, drugs, food delivered to me faithfully every four hours while I'm in front of the TV.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1236011-atlanta-braves-top-10-prospects-at-midseason/page/10

The Scranton, PA area is now bankrupt in more ways than one.