Basil’s Blog

I mentioned the other day about going to a baseball game and catching up with a ballplayer the Wife and I met when he played in Columbus.
Brandon Carter is playing for the Anderson Joes of the independent South Coast League. And, when they visited Macon recently, we went over to watch him play. He was [...]

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Earlier this week, we mentioned that Columbus Catfish 1B Matt Fields had broken out of a 5-for-50 slump in a big way. Well, it seems that the South Atlantic League noticed, too. The SAL named him player of the week:
The 21-year-old first baseman has homered in each of the past three ballgames, and four of [...]

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We went to Tony Roma’s for supper last night.
Yeah, I know. We’re in Panama City Beach, and the only non-chain restaurant we’ve been to has been a local Chinese restaurant. All these local places, featuring food with a local flavor, and we go to Tony Roma’s.
Still, we do like the food there, so we went.
The [...]

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While vacationing, we can’t … and certainly won’t … spend all our time on the beach. Sometimes we just lazy around the house watching TV.
At home, I usually … but don’t always … have the remote.
Here, at the beach house we’re staying at, the Wife seems to have the remote.
Which is why the TV ended [...]

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Finally, on our third day in Panama City Beach, we actually went to the beach.
After breakfast, we walked down to the beach.
We had purchased some backpack chairs from Walgreen’s. So, we packed out towels, sun screen, and such and put it in the backpacks. Grabbed the cooler and umbrella, and went tot he beach.
We set [...]

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On Sunday, our 2nd day in Panama City Beach, we actually saw the beach.
No, we didn’t go to the beach. We just saw it.
We’re here for the week. And decided to take it slow and easy this week. No rushing here or rushing there. So, we haven’t rushed down to the beach or anything. In [...]

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So far in the second half, the Columbus Catfish have either lost close — a 3-2 loss on Thursday and a 9-6 9th inning loss on Saturday — or won big — a 17-2 win Friday and now an 11-1 win tonight.
In the first half of the season, the Catfish were the only SAL team [...]

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Our first night of vacation in Panama City Beach, we were hungry. Anybody who has seen me knows that I eat when I get hungry. So, we went out to eat.
The folks who own the house where we’re staying mentioned several different restaurants to us, including a Chinese restaurant that had a sushi bar.
I’m not [...]

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Two errors and a shaky bullpen appearance did in the Columbus Catfish Saturday night. The Savannah Sand Gnats beat the Catfish 9-6.
The Sand Gnats (2-1) trailed, 6-4, before shelling reliever Brian Baker for five runs in the ninth. Jonathan Sanchez scored on third baseman Cesar Suarez’s error and Joe Holden singled home Joaquin Rodriguez to [...]

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It’s vacation week. Well, one of the vacation weeks.
The Wife and I are in Panama City Beach, FL.
In fact, we’re in the Burger King at the corner if US-78 and FL-79. That’s on what used to be called Back Beach Road, for those that have been PCB before.
The back story on this is that the [...]

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