Banquet tickets

Tickets are available for the 2008 Susquehanna Valley Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame banquet, Saturday, May 3, at the Susquehanna Fire Company.

Tickets are $15 each.

Contact Rich Gerfin at 684-4818 or 684-4772 for more information.

The inductees include former E-town and McCaskey football coach Jack Cassebaum; former Hempfield basketball coach Barry Henry; former Cocalico basketball coach and football official Spencer Henry; Merv Witmer, the former Ephrata AD, football coach and wrestling coach; Dr. Tom Martin and former Hempfield track star Warren Taylor.

The deceased inductee will be James Kuhn.

Air time

Was listening to my favorite morning show on the radio this morning, Mike and Mike on EPSN 1600.

The Atlantic League, in which the Lancaster Barnstormers are a member of, got huge air time.

Just before 7 a.m., Golic and Greenie were interviewing former Oriole great Brooks Robinson about baseball and mentioned the unveiling of a statue of Robinson in York tomorrow and talked several minutes about the Atlantic League.

Golic and Greenie were also wearing York Revoultion t-shirts.

Both the Revs and Barnies have their Fan Fest events tomorrow.

By the way, Brooks is the second best third baseman in baseball history.

1-2 is not great

Maybe it because I love the Phillies so much that a 1-2 start is not good for the team.

Here are my impressions through three games.

Opening Day, the bullpen broke down against Washington. Still would like to know if I as a fan can see things at home, why those in the dugout can't.

It was pretty obvious to me that Tom Gordon did not have it opening day, yet, Chuckles left him out there.

In game two, outside of the first inning, Cole Hamels pitched a gem, but baseball's best line-up did hit.

Yesterday, the fielding left the team down. Thought for a while I was watching a high school game.

Charlie, Chuckles or Bobblehead, or even the Red Devil, needs to let his bullpen pitchers pitch. J.C. Romero can throw two innings. In Charlie's first two years as skipper, he tends to get locked into that one inning, one inning bit. He still hasn't learned that his closer shouldn't be brought into a tie game. They don't have the mindset for that.

Also like it that, we're hearing less and less of Chris Wheeler. That's a huge positive in my book.

It's not time to panic yet with a 1-2 record, but they could easily be 3-0.