95% of the time, my content is designed to be consumed in 90 seconds or less, but this one will be different, WAY different.
God’s sun 🌞 is rising here at Cavalier Park on The Hill, and it is time to put as many mental final touches on the festivities planned for today as possible.
The plan, from start to finish, was to create seven books 📚, one for each day of the week. The seventh one will focus on a lifetime relationship with God.
The first five have been a blast, and today will act 🎬 as the closeout for number six. 50 years’ worth of stories from a lifetime of Baseball ⚾️ and Softball games. The stories are designed to tell a story about the people who make up the games and the story behind the scenes.
When a person wakes ⏰️ up and realizes that they have reached the end of a journey, he or she has a choice to make. Should I sneak out the back door and exit Stage Left or……………
Today is set to be a great final chapter with two dozen different storylines but for now, I need to take my 22 morning 🌄 pills 💊 and get started.
Seriously, gotta get started because company is coming after Church ⛪️ and there is oh, so much to do still yet !
Stop ✋️ on by, if you like – there is no charge to cross the Boulevard today….
I will be adding to this post 📫 all week so I encourage our readers to stay tuned !
We have A-Listers coming over today, so yes, we needed a Red Carpet for them !
Greg Bolen, Joi Ogle and Samantha Reed are all kinda a Big Deal !
One of the many questions that Lin and I bounced back and forth during the drive back from Durham last night was this one ?????? What is the goal that folks want to accomplish on Sunday ?
The easiest answer is this : the day is designed to celebrate your program in the most positive manner possible ! Invite your former players and their families back, invite your fans out, then treat the day like an after church picnic.
The fork in the road for Coach Nester and I is this – the actual game today is extremely important to him and his staff because it is a free look see 👀 into next year’s team.
For me, it’s about promoting both the past history of the program, protecting the current players, and sharing a few laughs with people with whom I have a ton of respect
Plus, it’s an opportunity to put my platform, one in which everyone is equal on full display.
Vickey Ritchie and our ” One Team ” will be a big part of today. Ryan McCafferty, The Walls family, and the real life show that is Kristy Jones all get a piece of the pie 🥧.
The Big Kevin (Burress ) and Little Kevin (Lineberry) are a HUGE part of this story.
Samantha Reed, Joi Ogle and Greg Bolen all have other places they could be today but that trio are coming here by choice.
8:25 am – Thoughts being working 💪 on right now…
Vickey Ritchie and the placement of her / our athletes alongside both our alumni and current players. It would be hard to explain how much thought has to go into this part. If I hadn’t spent the past five years in a gym with them, I would not understand this either.
We have 27 players set to play as I type this out. 13 current players in the third base dugout and 14 alums that will be in the first base one.
Vickey has soooooo many amazing individuals that hang out with us, but their individual challenges are very different. It’s extremely important that we place everyone in a spot where they will be in their comfort zone !
9:15 – just finished up comparing notes with Vickey Ritchie and we are roughly 80% set with her part !!!!!
Next up : 30 minutes with Greg Bolen !!!
I’m trying hard to find a way to limit this to just 30 minutes…..
Greg Bolen is THE MAN 👨 and I wish I could go all Chad Powers so that I could be a student in one of his classes !!!
The first question for Mr Bolen has to be: Do you remember the day that you first accepted the fact that you are Greg Bolen ? When God blesses 🙌 you with a personality that is larger than life, you have to be prepared to deal with it and that is harder to do than you think.
Carroll County is the 40th or so place that I’ve called home, not a typo. I have met some AMAZING people here, and Greg Bolen bats lead off on that list. I wish that our paths crossed more often but when they do…….
9:45 am – I was excited about someone arriving, so I’m not alone…
It’s the Boss !!!!
10:20 – This happened.
10:25 – Travis Leath is in the House 🏠
The importance of the Moment of Silence is the next line to address. Hix Miller is a Big Part of what we do here at Cavalier Park, and he just lost his Mother.
We aren’t just going to do a moment of silence. It is our plan to have it mean as much to Hix as Hix does to us !!!!
10:52 AM…..
5:33 PM …. Elvis is leaving the building…
To Be Continued, for days to come !!!!
6:19 PM – Home 🏡 and car 🚗 unloaded!!!
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Psalm 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
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