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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Two days down, three to go

Yesterday was Bob Dylan’s birthday. Bob Dylan might be the most successful singer who sounds worse singing his songs than ANYONE else. Honestly, this is the guy that karaoke was made for. Still, I enjoy his songs.

Sunday night I watched the Brooks & Dunn thing on CBS. I’ve never really thought of myself as a Brooks & Dunn fan, but they do have some songs that I like. It seems they are the best selling duo in Country music history. So they’ve got that going for them. I did enjoy the show. I always like seeing musicians sing songs made famous by other people.

I know I’m a little late on this story (at least I don’t think I’ve talked about it yet) but NASCAR has announced its first Hall of Fame class. The first class included: Bill France; Bill France, Jr.; Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt; and Junior Johnson. I’m not the biggest NASCAR fan... it’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t follow it as closely as others. With that in mind, I think this is a pretty good group to get this Hall of Fame started. I’m sure someone out there might be able to make an argument to have someone else in this group... but I don’t know if anyone would argue that one of these guys shouldn’t be in.

That’s much better than the 2003 inaugural class of the Charleston Baseball Hall of Fame. While that class did include James Island’s very own Gorman Thomas and Holly Hill’s Willie Randolph (two very worthy individuals, no doubt) it did not include the one man who has had perhaps the greatest influence on baseball in the Charleston area. That man, of course, is Coach Chal Port. To be fair, it wasn’t until 2006 that amateurs were considered for induction (and Coach Port was inducted that year). Of course, this begs the question: How do you have a Charleston Baseball Hall of Fame and not include amateurs? While I am a fan of our minor league team (the RiverDogs... a much better name than the Rainbows, which was their name when I started following them) I don’t think they rule the baseball world in this area. High school and college baseball rule (especially after C of C started playing). Anywho, I don’t think they’ve announced the nominees for this year’s class yet. I’ll let you know when they do (and I’ll even let you know who I’ll vote for).

Before I go, let me send a very big Thank You to my good friend and long-time I’m just sayin... reader Danny Wright for finding an Oklahoma quarter for me. This act of kindness will not be forgotten.
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