Upon Further Review: Rainouts and sports sections
It sure has been quite around the office for the last four days. Yes, Rob tied the knot Friday night and let me say I have never seen him happier. After being a bachelor for so long some of you may have thought he wouldn’t go through with it, but he did.
The ceremony went off without a hitch and the newlyweds headed off on a wonderful honeymoon somewhere in the state of Florida. That’s all he would tell me. He wouldn’t even tell me what part of the state. No town or even a hint of what beach their staying at. I guess he was afraid I was going to call and make sure he was going to have a column for Friday.
All the pressure of keeping you up-to-date on all our local sports falls in my lap this week. Just when I thought everything was going so smooth, the rain begin to fall. As I sweated Monday afternoon out hoping the rain wouldn’t cause any cancellations. I started to search high and low for some type of back-up plan.
If it had rained the games out on Monday then I figured we could hold the sports section Tuesday night after the ball games and get them in the paper on Wednesday. But with our new state-of-the-art press being able to run two sections at a time, it caused great concern within the press room to hold up any production of the paper. So as sweat begin to roll down my forehead, I calmly gathered my composure and went to work trying to figure out my best options.
Our editor James Clark suggested I follow him on his daily workout routine and fill much of the paper with his grueling workout. But after giving it much thought, I didn’t want to make him out to be some sort of a superman so I figured some things are better left alone.
Spring is rough on the sports department. You never know what mother nature is going to throw at you. And with all the sports being played outside, it only takes a few rain drops to get the panic button started.
We’ll as four o’clock rolled around I peeked outside and, much to my amazement, the sun was trying to peak through. I have to say, the old heartbeat settled down to a regular rhythm after seeing the sun. But as I got in my car to head to the ball fields rain begin to fall once again.
As I got closer to the field, I kept looking to see if any lights were on but as I approached there was no sign of life. Just as I turned into the school I saw a glimmer of light start to peak from the field. What a relief. The game was on and the Wednesday sports section was saved. Well it might not be saved but at least there would be something on the front page to read.
Mother nature gave me a scare but as game time approached the rain stopped and baseball could officially start.
Enough about my panic attack, now it’s time to turn my attention to basketball and March madness. The brackets are set and now it’s time to figure out who is going to make it to the finals. Kentucky looks pretty good right now and you can’t count Duke or Stanford out. Every year there’s a sleeper out there and this year it just might be Vanderbilt.