"No matter what, after it's all said and done, I'm the best field manager that ever put the WhiteWings uniform on..." - Manager Eddie Dennis
By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
Editor-In-Chief
HARLINGEN, Texas - His record as manager of the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings is a losing record, but it's early in the year and the team is still undefeated. Who will quarrel with a man's ideas of success, his optimism in the face of, well, mediocre play and his belief in a ballclub about to launch yet another season of low-level, semi-pro baseball?
Not Eddie Dennis. He loves Harlingen.
Dennis, shown in photo atop this story, carries a 318-322 record as manager here. His squad finished second last year in the United League Baseball, losing in the championship series.
But he's hopeful, or as hopeful as anyone can be ahead of a new schedule.
The Winsgters begin play next month in a new 12-team league. Dennis has big plans for the team, and for himself: "Sadly, this will be my last year and I will come to the Valley again when I get inducted into the Rio Grande Valley Hall of Fame. I don’t know if you remember, I am a very unselfish person and coach and I have plenty of reasons to say that."
He has a little Tony Chapa in him, which does not bode well for facing reality.
"I don’t know if you remember that, after I won the championship in 2000, I left the club and the next year the ballclub became a DISASTER. Then I came back in in 2006 and we had a decent year, then in 2007 we made it into the finals...I retired after that, then 2008 became an even worse DISASTER, a record of 20-62 the worse record ever in WhiteWings history."
It is a baseball they play here that no major leaguer would find familiar.
"When I came back in 2009 and right away we were contenders," he went on in his chit-chat with Deal, a public relations man for the league last season. "We were eliminated on the last day of the season, and then in 2010, we went back into the playoffs."
In a way, we feel sort of bad at having to tell it like it is. We're baseball fans from way back and have seen the best America and the world can produce and field. It is truly something special to see the best fielders make the highlight plays and the best sluggers kill the ball. Sadly, this particular league that employs Dennis is a far cry from the real thing. It is baseball only in the sense that it has nine players on the field at any one time and the games go for nine innings. After that, it may as well be a collection of guys who simply love the game, play it on some sandlot for nothing and then go home to tell the wife about it.
We believe in supporting the hometeam.
If Manager Dennis is honest, he would acknowledge that his efforts are likely ignored by baseball history and true-blue fans. The game is the attraction here. Fans will come and cheer and boo, and the dust will fly at the plate on every close play, the crack of the bat will tear the night sky and the action will be much like what you'd expect at any other baseball game being played in any of a thousand smalltown ballfields across the country.
It's baseball, only it's not Big Time baseball - no matter how many times disgraced former major leaguer Jose Canseco comes to town...
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34 comments:
So? I guess the league came up with the money owed to the City? So, we're going to let them play for free AGAIN? The season will come and go and then they will owe us AGAIN? I enjoy those games but at who's expense? This is like the City to give away concessions no matter the cost to the taxpayer? Anyway, good luck to this season. Hey Dennis, welcome back!
The manager has a LOSING record! Why is Jerry deal pumping his guy up? we like winners like everybody else. and how about some real players for my money! Tired of people brining crap to the Valley and wanting us to support it. Not this year, baby.
playball! that manager looks like he can still hit. Bat him clean-up, man. Good story. Not your typical rah-rah article. thanks.
Jerry Deal is a sucker, just because Dennis is from the Island doesn't make him any better. Baseball, go to a game, then tell me if it is baseball!!!LOL
The editor of the BLR reminds me of chapa, well this guys has brains, but thinks at the same level.
Without a doubt the failure of big time baseball in the Valley is the fault of T. Chapa
No Chapa's fault is being born, even small time baseball is better than Chapa and his comatosed blog.
I have seen Eddie Dennis, and his childish tantrums at the baseball games, and the low end people of the valley, people yell and holler, after drinking, cheap draft beer. One time a drunk fell on a previous Mayor, guess what, he was arrested, speaking about a spectacle. Dennis the menace is low rent, do us a favor, after this year don't come back.
Regarding the side bar, I think anyone caught text-ting should have their cell phones confiscated, and cars impounded.
I saw a lady texting today, and she was weaving like a drunk, when I blew the horn, she just smiled, idiot.
Baseball, in Harlingen, maybe a game or two, but that is about all I can stomach.
The games are horrible, you have to be drunk, or a kid with span of attention of a 2 year old, to enjoy the games, puro has beens.
I'd rather watch pro games on TV. this is like going to a cheap-ass carnival that goes from small town to small town. It's not the big leagues.
Any league that would hire Jose Canseco has to suck. I'm not going and hope no one goes. This team has problems with its light bill. How about that one, Jerry Deal? write it, man!
The crazy league is like a granade, all over the place, don't pay bills, the whitewings uniforms are ugly as hell. They added those miseralbe aluminum seats and took away the mystique of the stadium. The lighting could use improvement.
Wait, that league has always had financial problems, they average about 500 to 700 people, they need about 2,500 in attendance to pay the light bills.
Jerry, you are smarter than that, quit tying to sell snake oil, leave that to chapas fu**&ed up blog.
Deal's story on his blog is just a whitewash. Ask that manager the tough questions, man! Like why he thinks he's going into any Hall of fame with that losing record. LOL!!!
I am so glad, the gun college law didn't get passed first base. Make laws that make sense, not laws you heard about in some girlie's bar.
By the way, what are you all drinking at the Gentleman's clubs, Moonshine...huh...just what I thought.
Browsnville man, the LRGV, hall of fame is about the right place, this character, won't make it to the Baseball Hall of fame in New York, I don't care if he is from the Islands. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, you are getting to old to be playing games with your bloggers.
that ballclub is just a bunch of guys getting together to take grounders and flyballs. Its not even as good as TSC baseball. Best high schoolteam in valley could kick their ass. Believe it!
Bad news out of Washington if the government shuts down. What's with those people? they just screw around and screw around and it's the citizens who pay the price. Now they won't be paying the soldiers on time? Crazy damned stuff, dude. Good thing I'm out!
Meme, agree with your comments, a good 5-A team could send the wings packing, jerry deal is trying to sell a cadillac, when the team is nore than an old ford.
Deal is too old, he believes anything. He should be looking for a nursing home.
Highest in the nation, damn, there are plenty of hi-way deaths, and now giving people an option to drive faster.
Here we go again, I agree with Anon,(girlie Bar) who's bright idea, the girl in the pink bikini, or the one with the blue one??
So we are heading for a Goverment shut down, okay, let the game of chickens begin.
I wonder how the people that voted for the tea-parties feel?? Low end people, trailer park people like brother bufford jones. Right, jail bird minister??
Chapis blog down to 6 to 8 comments a day. Wow weiiii, not his damn police stories, or korry marra stories get traction. Que te pasa chaparrito, no que no.
Your side bar, I have a feeling there are going to be some people layed off, after things are said and done. The screwed up state is broke, like the Republican party.
Isn't Jerry Deal an employee of the failed, Lousiana/ Texas league and I lost count of all the other leagues the wings have associated with. Heck no wonder he supports that mickey mouse league.
What did Ddeal write about the wings and the light bill? Nothing! That guys is what w ecalla Homer. he just roots for the team and not the news. Bonafide news, my ass, Jerry!
Those cemetery workers are going to Hell! are you kidding me? You bury my mother in the wrong grave and your ass is grass! Mensos
I swear, what ever happen to business ethics, man, this cementaries, are a joke. They sell plots, they don't have. Pinche valle, no vale madre.
ALL:...Good comments throughout the day. It's been a wild and crazy ride in the world of news, and we're still tracking the federal government shutdown possibility. We want to inject a note about our friend Jerry Deal of MyLeaderNews.com. He has said he is a close friend of WhiteWings manager Eddie Dennis, and we believe his write-up is offered as such - a story about a friend and nothing more. There are other media outlets in the area and sooner or later reporters get on stories that simply have to be written... - Editor
The Tribune is a beter source for news around here. Good variety and the ebst writing. Keep up the great work. A fan.
Paz-Martinez, bro, you are the main man, when it comes to writing carnal. Como dician aya la Porter High, eres la mera pipa, homie.
Man, that Matamoros is going to the dogs, people killing each other.
I think our homie brothers are fighting a civil war, ese.
Ya alivianse la concha, homies. Killing each other doesn't resolve anything, think about las jefecitas, estan sufriendo.
If Only The U.S.A. All - TV Media a nd presscontrolled by the Jews will tell to the world about what really is going in all major American Cities; Houston, L.A. Atlanta, Dallas, Washington, Chicago, Manhattan..etc, About their High - Rate Murderous and Hate Deaths -- All of Mexico won't even compares to one of their Cities in Violent Crimes.
I think in New York, 24 people die daily due to gun violence. That is a lot of people, I just heard Mexico is considering legallizing marijuana, although, the crimes are more about stealing and kidnapping, then drug use.
Anarchy, if you ask me.
Well, from one side of the Valley, to the other side. First a minister from San Benito kills his wife for money.
Now Vanessa Garcia from Mission pays a hit man to kill the husband for money.
Pinche ejido del Rio Grande, too many greedy hubbies and darlings.
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