Summer’s Gone and the Tater’s Baked
Today was the final game of the 2008 season for the Hickory Crawdads. Luckily they pulled off a win to end the season on a positive note even though they had the worst overall season in the team's 16-year history. The Crawdads finished the second half with a 22-47 record and a 53-87 record for the 2008 season. Home plate umpire Eric Underwood looks a lot like Nicolas Cage, so I decided to feature his mug in today's blog :) Today's game started at 1pm with the sun blazing. I forgot to put on sun screen before I went to this game, but I wasn't out in the sun that long... maybe a total of 90 minutes. I left this game about 2:30pm to get ready for another assignment, so I went by the house and loaded up with some SPF 50 before I headed to the Hickory Motor Speedway for the 32nd running of the Bobby Isaac Memorial race...
The sun didn't give me a break for the rest of the afternoon. I went from the ball game to the speedway, and there isn't much opportunity for shade there either. The race was rather uneventful. My local favorite, Matt DiBenedetto didn't have a great day though. He qualified in third position but had troubles and didn't even finish the race on the lead lap after something broke in the car in the second half of the race. Asheville's Coleman Pressley (pictured) took the lead from Denver's Matt McCall on lap 155 and never looked back...
The SPF 50 I put on between assignments was too little too late for today's blazing sun. My head is red, and if any of you out there are bald like me (by choice), you may know what it's like to have a sunburnt tater! I'm gonna be irritable for the next few days... ;)
It's still gonna be warm around here for the next few weeks, but I'm back to the high school and local college grind now. Football season has already started in both places, and I also have soccer and volleyball going on as well.
It shouldn't be but a few more weeks until the weather really starts to cool off...