"Why do they [write] for their money? Why do they [work] for short pay? They ain't getting nowhere and they're losing their share. They must have gone crazy back there." — Michael Burton (paraphrased)
By MONTE DUTTON Luke Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball is a funny game. Joe Garagiola named a book that. The first person who said it was probably in the first game. Garagiola gets credit because he wrote the book. Kids go to baseball games to play. They’ll take up any vacant space and …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders, Red Devils jockeying for playoff position
By MONTE DUTTON Asher Goss fired a no-hitter. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The best thing about the baseball game at Ed Prescott Field on Wednesday night wasn’t the hot dogs. They’re good. Not as good as the ones at Whiteford’s Drive-In or Steamers. Slaw is an available condiment at those two spots, but hot …
By MONTE DUTTON Carson Glenn was perfect in relief. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. This is how I’ve changed on social media. I let more go. For instance, just a minute ago, I read a post that expressed this view in the form of a question; “What grown man still eats peanut butter and jelly …
Continue reading County Signs: Red Devils quiet Cyclones, 3-1
By MONTE DUTTON Ryland Paxton (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. We had a partial eclipse. I knew something weird would happen, especially since it was my birthday. The approaching eclipse prevented my truck from starting in front of Sadler-Hughes Apothecary. Little Walt (Hughes) fetched his truck and jumped me off. I took it to Clinton …
By MONTE DUTTON (PC photo) Click here. Was Iowa’s upset of South Carolina in the national semifinals a year ago the first time I ever heard of Caitlin Clark? I certainly know all about her now. I’ve watched about 500 percent more women’s basketball this year, apparently mirroring the general public. This year I watched …
Continue reading County Signs: Hose home in baseball, softball
Carson Glenn (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Baseball terms come from a variety of origins. For instance, “on deck” refers to the next batter. The one after that is “in the hold,” not the hole. They were naval terms before baseball adopted them. It irks me that any time a player holds a bat in …
Continue reading County Signs: Spartanburg edges Clinton, 5-4
Raiders came back, but Jordan Hudson wasn't around to see it. (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Even when the weather is clear, a spring night has dampness in it. Parents and friends huddle in the shadows, some up against the fence in their foldable chairs, others standing back a bit, wearing caps and windbreakers, wishing …
Brett Young (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. A high percentage of people who attended a funeral and wrote about it mentioned the weather. For the record, it was drizzly and overcast at Fort Jackson National Military Cemetery when Jim McLaurin took his mortal bow. I saw no hidden meaning. The poet laureate of the working …
Continue reading County Signs: Figures that it began with a funeral
Me-Me Smith (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Because ESPN2 must have something to show on Tuesday night, I watched part of the men’s basketball game between High Point and Arkansas State. It’s the Ro College Basketball Invitational, live from Daytona Beach Center. High Point, the regular-season champion of the Big South, was up seven the …
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(Monte Dutton photos) Click here. I retired to the house so that I could watch Presbyterian College play women’s basketball on TV, but I regretted leaving the baseball being played by the ancestral Laurens County rivals on Wednesday night. The Blue Hose won, so I can’t really say I misplayed it. I took a plethora …
Continue reading County Signs: Raiders rule … but just barely
Nightrider's Lament 