Getting ready for Day One and facing roadblocks

Network had a quite a first day of the NABA World Series...and we didn't even play. We found out some rough news today in that we will be without two of our players, one starter for Game 1...and we almost lost our catcher to a bad smoothie at the Atlanta airport.

Terry Loe started the day with food poisoning. The extra smoothie he had in the Atlanta airport must have been made rancid milk or spoiled strawberries. Terry immediately fell ill to food poisoning and almost fainted a few times on the flight to Phoenix. He spent most of our flight in the men's room and I thought he wouldn't make it. I'm happy to say that he has made a quick recovery once we got him medication and got him back to the hotel.

It didn't stop there. As soon as I got off the plane I received a desperate voice mail from Atlanta Bulls coach Jeff Boyar. One of our players girlfriend's called him frantically with some terrible news. (nameless) had been on medication and got into an accident. No one was hurt but (nameless) had a prior DUI and since he was the cause of the accident he was immediately taken to county jail. It doesn't look good and Network will have to do without their speedy 4th outfielder...but it wasn't over.

Hours later, our star 3rd baseman, Chris Bruno called to tell me he has a major audition and pitch meeting Monday and can't make the first three games minimum. That's a huge loss in both his glove and his bat.

With all that said, that's why The Network is reigning champs. We are a very deep team that can weather any storm, including the one we faced today. We have all day Sunday to rest up for Sunday night's game against the tough Tuzos.

Stay tuned as the saga of Network continues.

Rick