Cleaning Out the Inbox

With both the NBA and NHL Drafts coming up with Cavalier and Devil coverage of each,I figured that it was time to dump the old inbox before it got too full....

Before we start,I still have an announcement to make regarding the podcast,but I plan on doing that tonight/tomorrow from the road office,when I do the next podcast.
Some of you know/think you know just what this announcement is,but if you don't,I am not going to spoil it for you.

\Photo Credit;Gene Sanny

We begin with this from UniWatch and one man that has combined his love of painting with electric football to create the World Football League on the vibrating field.The picture shown features my favorite team from the 1974-75 league in game action as the Southern California Sun faces off on the steel gridiron against the (Honolulu) Hawaiians.
Gene Sanny's project saw him hand paint each team with accurate player names and even "dirt" on the uniforms!
Sanny also added a field cover to give the field the look of the old multi-use stadiums or currently in Oakland that had a dirt infield during baseball season.
The electric football community has a strong underground that loves the old game and I loved it too as a kid,although I never was able to use the "triple threat quarterback" to do anything properly!
Super neat to see these types of things and their creativity involved....

The "Madison Square Garden of the South"-Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh N.C. is undergoing a huge renovation and one of the discoveries was the Tartan floor that the Wolfpack used under Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano in the 70's and 80's.
Tartan was a spongy soft surface that took a lot out of your legs.How do I know?

My junior high was built the year before I started and installed a Tartan surface on our floor.
It really was thick and heavy and it's easy to see how it came out of style like AstroTurf.
The Wolfpack still use Reynolds for the lady Pack and smaller sports along with graduation ceremonies etc and the school attempted to remove the surface during the renovation,but concluded that it would be too difficult to take out and will be covered over by a new hardwood floor after the renovations are finished.
The picture is what the center circle with the old (S) logo for State looks like today...

The baseball Hall of Fame offers a column named "Card Corner" and the latest one was on my favorite player of my youth-Toby Harrah.
A theme was how the Yankees spent years trying to obtain Harrah from the Rangers and never succeeded until after Harrah was past his prime.
Two "what if's" on Harrah.
1) Bucky Dent was often offered in Harrah deals,would that have made the 78 playoff game end differently?
2) Would I have been a Yankee fan following Toby like I did to Cleveland?
or stayed with the Rangers? Or went to Cleveland anyway?
Interesting questions....

WKSU writes about the Cleveland mustard war between Bertman's ballpark and Stadium.

Photo Credit;Mike Lowry

It compares the history,taste,companies and owners for the two products and discusses the war between them as well.
If you'd like a vote in the war,here is a link to a Cleveland.com poll between the two.
Personally,I like them both,but I lean towards Bertman's as did the lovely Cherie and Rachel.
A friend of mine tells me Bertman's can be found in Frederick at Giant Eagle supermarket and Stadium shows up occasionally at Big Lots,so if you see them-give them a try!

The Washington Post writes of one of the world's worst invasive species entering the country and the issues that could be caused by it getting loose.
The New Guinea flatworm can devastate a ecosystem with dining on snails and earthworms,but will eat other foods in their absence.
It is regarded as one of most destructive species in the world in a spot where it has no predators and supposedly it has a really lousy taste to put predators at bay...

Planning for a possible podcast tonight,so we will see!