Well Draft day is Sunday, I will be attending all 4 drafts this year in the baseball association. You can call me the Cal Ripken of drafts. We start the first 2 in a bar, and then the last 2 in our Clubhouse. Yes, I agree it should be the other way around but what the heck, getting drunk early Sunday should make the T-Ball draft go very quickly!
I waited a week to write again because last night was the 22nd Annual Sport Hamilton Volunteer Appreciation dinner, it is a great event where the City of Hamilton honours it's volunteers of the past year and presents awards, and shows the people of sport just how much they are appreciated. This year the Keynote Speaker was Morgan Wooten who coached at DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland for well over 40 years. Coach Wooten has some amazing stories to tell and listening too him was an absolute treat, just seeing how he has touched lives and he has been one of the greatest coaches around. Coach Wooten has over 1200 wins and 192 losses, Incredible! Anyway he was talking about one game in the 1980's, his star player was Danny Ferry (who would become an All-American at Duke and then have a nice NBA career), anyway DeMatha is undefeated at the time, and is taking on the top public school, who is also undefeated. This game would determine who was the best High School team in the Washington, DC area and in the United States. At halftime DeMatha was down 18 points, but Coach Wooten went into the locker room he started with a positive, he said "Gentlemen, they have just made a tragic mistake, they won the wrong half." Now down 18 points it is impossible to comeback in 1 possession, but DeMatha clawed back and was down 1 point with just a few seconds remaining, and then got the game winner with just seconds left, OH MY, what a victory. If you ever get an opportunity down the road to talk to Mr. Wooten, be sure to take advantage of it, and even just to hear him speak, he is an incredible person, who knows what sports and life are really about.
I am going to start up a song of the day feature from now on, these songs could be required listening, but are also a good indicator of moods.
With anticipation in the air, and the drafts coming on Sunday, there are a few songs that come to mind.
Today I feel like some Beatles- "It's Hard Day's Night"
The season is filled with joy and despair, the draft is always a big indicator of that, will Sunday be joyful, or will it be filled with despair? We will find out.
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