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I just got through watching the first couple of

innings of Blue Jay baseball. I have never been a

good baseball watcher. It's just too slow for my
taste and coming right after watching some pretty
good hockey action the past few months, it seems to
me sitting and watching a pitcher going a full count
on more than one batter is a terrific waste of time.
Anyway the Jays' season bas started and
although the second hockey season hasn't yet,
baseball will be "old bat" by the time the Stanley
Cup winner is decided.
I don't know why but I find that curling like we
saw this past weekend in the World Cbampiombip
can be a pretty good way to spend some time especially with an ending like that. It
seems to me after the way he bad curled, Roger
Schmidt desened a better fate, but the game of
curling allows none. You throw one bad one and
there goes your game out the window.
We day a pretty good brand of hockey on
Saturday night in Rossland. It would have been nice
to see a few more fails in the stands for the sake of
the Rick Hansen fund. When you figure the local
kids were up against the team that won the
Okanagan league, I thought they played real well.
Not having some of the Rebels better players on the
team, which would, no doubt have made a difference, the team of ours put on a pretty good show
against the Junior "A" team.
So, now local hockey is over for us and it makes
one wonder if baseball will make some sort of a
. comeback in Rossland this season. I know I miss a
smnmer evening up at the park watching our locals
·play. I suppose I'd go to Trail if I drove a car but I
don't so I shall have to be content with watching
slow-p1tcb or soccer. There is some pretty good
competition in both these sports and I think I particularly like the minor soccer. These kids go all out
and with all the leagues for various age groups that
operate around our area these days we are certainly
getting some good sport. Perhaps not up to the top
standards but pretty good to watch and a great
sport for the youngsters who take part.
I bad my first round of golf on Thursday of last
week and shall be at the Retirees' opener this week.
By the time that's over we shall have to be thinking
about getting our Rossland guys in action. Hope the
course opens soon!
My first nine proved one thing, I've got a long
way to go before I could make any kind of a living at
the game but I shall not worry too much about that.
I enjoyed it anyway.
So until next time,
I'll say, 'Byefornow!