The Tigers manhandled the Braves of Benson on Tuesday at Benson. Looks like Benson still uses "Braves." Man that has gotten drawn out. Looks like Benson is sitting back and waiting for state money to come along. The Native American symbolism is really being tossed out now. I'm sure the U.S. president would prefer that all that be retained, along with the Confederate statues and like stuff. That's at the Federal level which is nothing to sneeze at. The "Feds" have power.
And that's why we should be concerned here in Morris about the anti-DEI moves being made from D.C. Our UMN-Morris is quite intertwined explicitly with DEI. Is this a risk we can afford to keep taking? Who knows what decisions might be coming down the pike? Our U.S. president does not back down.
So the "Braves" of Benson took the field at their home place to play the Tigers on Tuesday. I'm guessing that the fan seating accommodations are better at Benson than at Morris. A very good guess, because our accommodations for fans are almost nil. They're on the negative side of the ledger. Bring your own chair. Carry them around even if you're up in years. Prepare for muddy ground underfoot.
Makes us wish that basketball season would just continue. Instead we get thrown outdoors when the weather is never ready, year after year. Downright depressing. Every year these thoughts occur to me.
26 to donut
The Tigers beat the "Braves" 26-0 on Tuesday. I won't slog through all the offensive highlights for MACA. Most likely everyone was a star. Congrats to the whole roster of MACA Tigers.
When you look over all the game scores to date, you'll see a lot of one-sidedness. Too much, really. What's with these others schools? I remember the great baseball manager Casey Stengel saying of his early New York Mets: "Doesn't anybody here know how to play this game?"
Rather than focus on the Benson blow-out, let's consider the previous game date which was April 25 (Friday). Hey, we played two on that day! And we swept of course. Our opponent was Montevideo. The Tigers swept the Thunder Hawks 10-0 and 14-2.
Game 1 was too much of a blow-out for me to want to summaries. Game 2 wasn't much better but let's look over that 10-0 win. Haley Kill was our pitcher and she fanned seven batters in her route-going (six innings) performance. She gave up two hits and walked just one.
Moving on to hitting/offense we see Leah Berlinger going two-for-four with a run-batted-in. Lauren Hottovy had a hit, scored a run, drew a walk and stole a base. Harmony Cloverdale was a force with a three-for-four line including a double. Harmony scored two runs, drove in one and stole two bases.
Samantha Konz crossed home plate once. Brenna Jergenson doubled and scored a run. Ryla Koehler had a hit in her only at-bat. Ryla scored two runs and drove in two. Mackenzie Konz drove in a run. Ellen Reed was one-for-one with a stolen base. Amaya Raths reached on hit-by-pitch, plus she scored two runs and drove in one. Kaylin Steen had two hits, stole a base, scored a run and drove in two runs.
The losing pitcher was Emmary Bichanzi.
Is it time to just start pointing fingers at the city council and mayor for how this whole untidy matter involving the Morris Public Library has been handled? Isn't that becoming the bottom line?
If the library director has returned as if nothing really happened, the suggestion would be that a certain city administrator is "the bad guy." And that's the conclusion already drawn by so many of the director's friends. "Little tin god?" Deputies needed to guard city council members?
Wasn't there a "cleaner" and more low-profile way to handle all of this? Can the city report with some degree of detail on just what "misconduct" the librarian was responsible for? I mean, just to establish a public record? Could it really have been "de minimis?" I mean, with lawyers at work on "both sides?"
Should make the average Morris resident curious as heck. I went to library on Tuesday, did not see the director there although that proves nothing. I really went there to look at new Morris fishwrap (newspaper).
There was a small headline at bottom-right of front page about the school board meeting that attracted 125 members of the public, according to a reliable account I received.
IMHO there should have been banner headline across top of front page. This is major. The school cuts are major.
I did read the fairly lengthy article. But I was surprised there were no letters to the editor on the school cuts. During my time with the newspaper, for sure there would be several letters tossing around reactions. It's a different age now. Paper only comes out once a week. Their website is really not part of the local media ecosystem. It ought to be.
The question now is whether the community really can routinely move on from the cuts, simply adjust and no longer engage in restless discussion.
Looks like hockey will have to survive with private money. But of course that money would otherwise be used for other things. Is hockey good PR for Morris? Well the teams are not even called "Morris" or "MACA." What the hell is "MBA?" It's like the BOLD and MACCRAY school districts: confusing to those not familiar.
Substantial school cuts probably reflect what is happening in Washington D.C. where the presidential administration seeks to eliminate the Department of Education. Cut Federal spending I guess, and that would include even FEMA. Yes, FEMA is a target too. So states and localities will have to foot the bills if they can come up with the money. But hey, states cannot operate on a deficit, right? The Federal government sure can.
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| Candidate for Pope now? |
It appears that many of us literally worship DJT. And today I see headlines about how Senator Lindsey Graham thinks that Trump should be considered for Pope. Is this a Twilight Zone episode or what?
'Mongo just pawn in game of life." (That's me.)
- Brian Williams - morris mn Minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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