Editor of The Tribune
HARLINGEN, Texas - The local club met in Edinburg some 30 miles west of here, where its players did their best to look the part of a semi-pro team. The Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings won the game by the Little League score of 13-10, which highlighted the league's awful pitching. Players for both the Whitewings and the Edinburg Roadrunners crossed the plate 23 times, perhaps thrilling some kids with long balls and hits falling all over the place. That'll happen on a slow Wednesday in the Valley.
It's not professional baseball of the sort we've come to know.
Each night history is made, they say. Really? But what kind of history? Who's recording it? Anyone?
In the League's storied ballparks, they go on. Storied? Storied! Harlingen Field? Plus, the McAllen Thunder squad does not even have a field of their own! Cliches are cheap in low-rung sports.
McAllen took the country roads to San Angelo in Tom Green County and won its game against the Colts, 8-4. Good start, but, out in dusty West Texas, cow-tipping is still the top sport in town.
But they'll keep playing, keep telling you that this or that pitcher went four innings in 98-degree heat, or this or that batter went 3-5 against pitching arms that have to be suspect. I mean, the Wingster hit 5 homeruns off Edinburg Roadrunner pitching. Five! That may have happened because it was the opening game of the season and the baseballs were still new, or maybe the pitching is, as suspected, not up to par.
With better baseball readily available elsewhere, why spend money on less-than-zero ballclubs offering nine guys who couldn't make it anywhere else against nine others who couldn't do it either?
This local baseball is not worth the price of admission, no...
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17 comments:
It is what it is. Bad baseball in a bad town. you take it or leave it. I used to do the same with BoysTown in Matamoros. take it sometimes and not others.
Well at least Jery Deal tones it down. he only wrote a few sentences on these games. maybe he's catching on to reality. ha ha ha
excelent write-up on the top sidebar about the city police chief hunt. Harlingen should get a pro chief. No GED guys, okay?
Interim chief Kester has some support. he is already here and you're right about the other applicants coming from smaller towns. Carlsbad, new mexico? where is that?
Mr. Paz-Martinez, agree with your editors notes. Interim Police Chief Keester has a degree in oceanography, what the heck, does that have with police work.
They needs someone with a degree in law enforcement.
Yerena quit acting dumb, you know what Harlingen needs, now find it, and go get it.
I did check out the box score for this game. I was particularly interested in two stats that no one else would care about: time of game and errors. These are the two stats that best indicate quality of play. The game time was listed at 3:15 which is slow for any game and consider there are not television commercial breaks between each half-inning so this indicates alot of pitchers not being able to find the plate. Curiously absent from the box score was errors. If I missed them somehow could you let me know.
It cost around 6 dollars to watch games full of errors and baseball scores that reminds us of football. Lets me mindful that Jerry is 80 years old and anything excites him.
Harlingen field is used by local high schools, not only that, but the Wings owe the city almost $40.000 dollars in light bills.
Newt Gigrich is a fake and a phony, when he isn't chasing women, he is buying jewelry. Viviendo la vida loca
Mr. Chapaneco is trying to entice Jerry into a blog war. The new blog is keeping him up, because as it is no one likes. Pobre vijito stupido.
That baseball team will have to go on without me. I went last year and it was not good baseball. sorry.
Jerry, thinks that because Eddie Dennis has an Island accent, he is good manager.
I see Eddie as more of clown, acting as if he was a major league manager. Pinche Jerry, promoting a baseball team que nomas no!!!
ALL:...I would be okay with the WhiteWings if the promotion wasn't so so over-the-top. Billing it as AA or AAA ball is simply wrong. It is baseball, but it is not professional calibre. It just isn't. And going ga-ga over the latest signing of some stiff who is lucky to be playing is not the way to gain any sort of credibility. In fact, the league loses face by doing things that way. Level with the fans. Say these are good American kids playing America's game and leave it at that. Fooling the fans openly is not good business... - Editor
I was at the game, today, the outfielders of the Whitewings have no speed, they missed easy flies and they can't do double plays, the throw from second base to first base way over the first base head.
Some of the Whitewings and Roadrunners,are overweight. They are playing next week at Harlingen.
I have seen better high school games. This isn't pro-baseball, I will tell you this much. Nothing but overweight fajita tacos players.
The gun lobby is behind the use of guns in Texas. As it is there are way to many guns floating around. With this crazy laws, look out, Dodge city here we come.
Mr. Dillon, lets go and have breakfast at Delmonicos, than a cold one at the long branch saloon.
Side Bar, payday loans, one of the legislators owns payday loans outlets. I believe he is from Galveston. He was opposing the bill.
Mr. Editor, Chapamecos blog, had no comments today.
OOpps, meant to say, Chapisneco's blog, sorry about the misspelled word.
Mary L.
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