Basil’s Blog

There was a story in the local news this week about a child in the back seat of a pickup that was stolen.
According to the story on WTVM, Dr. Jimmy Johnson was leaving his parents house, had put his 18-month old child in the car seat in the back of his truck, then ran back [...]

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Last week, the Little Princess called. She needed two things.
She needed help moving her stuff from storage to her new apartment.
And she had a problem with her computer.
A little less than four years ago, we gave her a Dell computer for college. She had taken her Gateway laptop that her mother gave her in high [...]

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Heath Rollins scattered 5 hits over 5, struck out 5, and allowed 3 runs en route to his 16th win of the season, as the Columbus Catfish pounded out 22 hits and beat the Savannah Sand Gnats (Mets) 15-6 on Friday night.
The 22-year-old right-hander leads the South Atlantic League with 145 strikeouts. Josh Geer also [...]

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Up 7-0 going into the bottom of the 5th inning, the Columbus Catfish couldn’t stop the Charleston RiverDogs (Yankees) from fighting back, tying the game in the 9th, and beating the Catfish in 11, 8-7.
Catfish starter Will Kline had his best outing of his young career (he was the 2nd round pick of Tampa Bay [...]

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I never met the Wife’s father. He died a few years before I met her. So, I never met the man. But the whole family thought the world of him.
After all these years, they still place flowers on his grave on special occasions: holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and any other time in between that the mood [...]

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The Charleston RiverDogs (Yankees) seem to have the Columbus Catfish‘ number. After the Catfish won 8 of their first 10 games against Charleston, the RiverDogs have won 11 of 13 from the Catfish, including a 6-1 drubbing Wednesday night.
Kyle Anson and Josue Calzado ripped RBI singles in the fourth for the RiverDogs (34-24), who pulled [...]

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It took 4 pitchers, but those 4 pitchers did it. The Charleston RiverDogs (Yankees) used 4 pitchers to hold the Columbus Catfish to three hits tonight, as they shut out the Catfish 3-0.
Charleston opened the crucial three-game series against the Southern Division leaders with a win to improve to 33-24 in the season’s second half [...]

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I hate spam.
I really, really hate spam.
Not SPAM®, mind you. I like SPAM®. It’s one of Hormel’s fine products.
But spam, I don’t like.
Okay, spam is technically unsolicited email. And I’m talking about comments (or TrackBacks) that are unrelated to the post of a blog. Like this little blog. We often, though incorrectly, call that spam.
So, [...]

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Photo: Columbus Catfish

For the third time this season, Columbus Catfish pitcher Heath Rollins has been named the South Atlantic League Pitcher of the Week.
Minor League Baseball noticed his performances on the mound last week:
Heath Rollins, Columbus
2-0, 2.46 ERA, 2 G, 2 GS, 11.0 IP, 10 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 13 SO
Catfish [...]

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The first place Columbus Catfish scored a big win Sunday evening, blasting the 2nd place Asheville Tourists (Rockies) 7-3. The win extends their lead in the South Atlantic League Southern Division to 2-1/2 games, and drops their “magic number” to 12.
Matt Fields homered for the third time in two nights, driving in 3 runs and [...]

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