Basil’s Blog

This week, WTVM sports anchors Dave Platta and Andrew Whittenberg are running a series on the departure of the Columbus Catfish.
The Catfish will leave Columbus for Bowling Green, KY after this season is over.
But the Catfish aren’t the first team to leave Columbus. In 2002, the RedStixx left, moving to Eastlake, OH, and becoming [...]

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After this season, my baseball team is leaving.
I call it “my” team, but I don’t own it. The folks that do own it are moving it to Bowling Green, KY.
Fans like me in the Columbus area will be without baseball. The good news is, not many people will be affected.
Why do I say that?
Because [...]

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As a baseball fan, I have a slight love-hate relationship with umpires.
Like all fans, I am frustrated when a call goes the other way. Not so much if the call is correct. But when a call is obviously wrong — at least, obvious to me — I do get ticked off.
“Hate” is a strong word, [...]

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Earlier this year, the Columbus Catfish were sold. The new owner wanted a team to move to Bowling Green, KY.
He got it.
And I’m losing a baseball team.
Oh, not just me. The whole Columbus area. But don’t but a few people care. Because, if they did, they’d have been at the games and the team wouldn’t [...]

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One of the joys I have attending the Columbus Catfish games isn’t just the game, or meeting the other fans, but it’s also meeting the media representatives.
Most of them are baseball fans. And people you enjoy being around.
One of the local reporters in Columbus I enjoy talking with and spending time around is Dave Platta, [...]

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Photo: WTVM

So, how are you handling the rise in gas prices?
There’s one guy in Macon County, Alabama, that’s having to deal with people stopping at his store, getting gas, then driving off.
Now, a lot of you might be wondering why there’d be drive offs if folks have to pay first.
The thing is, folks down here [...]

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In April, we reported that the Columbus Catfish had applied to move to Bowling Green, KY following this season. Earlier this month, the owner of the Catfish reported the same thing.
Everybody knew it was going to happen, and an official involved with the South Atlantic League confirmed to us in April that the application had [...]

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So Barack H. Obama has claimed enough delegates to be considered the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party.
Isn’t that just peachy!
For a conservative like me, it actually is.
You see, Obama, a liberal’s wet dream, is the worst possible candidate the Dems could put up against John S. McCain, III, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Obama is a [...]

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A man in Denver says he has proof of aliens among us.
According to a report from Denver TV station KMGH, Jeff Peckman obtained the video from Stan Romanek, who took the video 5 years ago. Peckman calls it “irrefutable evidence” of alien visitation:
The grainy, black and white video he showed was shot by Stan Romanek [...]

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Susan Sarandon wants Barack Obama to be President.
That doesn’t surprise me. She’s nuts. And that’s pretty much the only qualification required for supporting Barack Obama.
But I missed a report last week from The Telegraph. According to the report, Sarandon is looking at a move if Sen. John McCain wins the presidency:
“If McCain gets in, it’s [...]

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