Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again in a quiet household, I'm the only one who has recovered from the losing battle with the sandman from last night and am up early watching Man on the Moon on Netflix. I've always been an early morning person as long as I can remember.

Big game last night for Sand Diego Padres second baseman and Morgantown native Jedd Gyrko, as he went 3 for 4 and drove in 4 runs off of two Home Runs. That's 16 on the year for Jedd and he now seems recovered from the mid season injury and is tearing it up.

I checked up on Josh Judy and he hasn't pitched since last week. He was tearing it up earlier in the year and was killing them in AAA when he first went back up, but he's been struggling as of late and is currently back in AA. Have no fear he'll get it worked out and will make his return to the majors before it is all over with.

This is the last weekend for a while when there will be no football. Both High School and College Football start here in Morgantown next weekend. That and the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to make this a pretty interesting fall.

Have a great day, we'll be shampooing carpets and I'll be helping my Mom move a bunch of things to storage this afternoon.

Saturday Morning Ramblings

Here I sit once again on an Early Saturday Morning, being the first to recover in the household from a losing battle with the sandman. I don;t think the dogs or the cats are even stirring round at all and Michelle is still sleeping pretty good. I'm up watching the move the Babe with John Goodman, the life story of Babe Ruth.

Funny little story about the household. As many of you know I was softball teammates with Josh Judy who made his Major League debut a couple of years ago with the Indians. Josh was the second person born ion Morgantown to make it to the Major Leagues and later that season former WVU Catcher David Carpenter made his debut as a Pitcher. The first one player from Morgantown was back 50 years ago with the Indians, so Josh was second, David was third and on Opening Day, the San Diego Padre's starting second baseman for the season will be Chad's old team mate from years ago Jedd Gyrko who I have seen play in both High School with Josh and in College at WVU. I can say I have had the pleasure of seeing all three of these guys play before they were Major League players. I remember going to see University High play Morgantown High once when Josh was pitching against them, and this is the only time I've ever cheered against my Alma Mater. I remember turning to Steve, Josh's Dad after Jedd got a lead off hit and saying now that is a pure hitter, don't be surprised if we see two of these kids in the Majors someday. Jedd will make the second. Congrats to Jedd.

Today will be a shopping and running around day for Michelle and I. We're traveling tomorrow so we'll get the rest of our shopping and everything done before we travel tomorrow.

If you are doing nothing today and you have a few dollars in your pocket that you don't need, there is a fundraiser today for the Skylar Neese family at the Cassville Firehall. This will be to help the struggling family cover the cost of a decent funeral for Skylar Neese who was first missing and later found dead earlier this year. If you have only a few coins, please stop by. My brother in law Jim will be doing a bake sale auction.

Have a great day.