Represent what??? Well, Major League Baseball has set March 31st as the date for the 1st Annual "Civil Rights Game", as baseball will celebrate the nations civil rights movement with a nationally televised game (espn) at 5:30 PM from Auto Zone Park in Memphis, the home of the Civil Rights Museum and the city in which The Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated.
This first annual will be played by the Cardinals and Indians.
So, who best to represent the NPL for this event, but The Harv... The NPL with their large travel budget, will ...... in the words of songwriter Marc Cohn, send Harv.... "Walking in Memphis."
So, I guess Harv can say he.....
Put on my blue suede shoes
And I boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues
In the middle of the pouring rain.
Although we really don't want a rain-out.
Hopefully Harv can take part in some of the pre-game ceremonies. And as luck would have it, we'll also have a photographer on hand and we will have a report on how it went, after the big guy returns to Pittsburgh.
And if Harv is lucky, while he is there, maybe he will have.....
Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue
Followed him up to the gates of Graceland
Then I watched him walk right through
Now security they did not see him
They just hovered 'round his tomb
But there's a pretty little thing
Waiting for the King
Down in the Jungle Room...
Have a blast Harv!!!!
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PS - If you were a fan of the "X-Files", there was an episode in which the plot of the story was about a town being haunted by Cher songs (yeah, weird, but remember it's the X-Files). Anyway, the show ended with that song being played (sung by Cher, of course) while Mulder grabs Scully for a slow dance in some honky-tonk bar. That brief description probably doesn't do it justice, but it was actually one of the coolest X-Files episodes they ever made. Just an opinion!!
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OTHER - N.P.L. NEWS ITEMS:
STICKER GUY:
The thought was brought up that the draft would move much quicker if we had someone - a "volunteer" person (not one of us) who may want to come to the draft and just put the players name stickers on the board for us. Maybe they would work for free beer? Not sure who might want to do that, but if anyone may have someone in mind, let me know.....
Harv - any of the Windsor residents qualified for that duty???????
And speaking of "Windsor Place", yes that is the location for this years draft, since the Legion Hall is out of business.... I may not have been clear with that in a previous blog posting. Sorry, My Bad. But I listed the windsorplace.com site by the use of a "hyperlink". So if you ever notice that any of the text is in blue and underlined, you can put your cursor on those word(s) to click on them to shoot you to the website hidden within. A shortcut if you will. In that particular instance (under the Michael Corleone picture) the blue underlined words were "this location."
We're getting closer to looking at player positions for those changing in 2007 or just to clarify on those versatile guys who move around along with the DH's.
But in the meantime, news from around spring camps this week........
HA-HA........ JINX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And........
Dude, please move 90 feet clockwise.
