One of the most revered rules in baseball is posted in every clubhouse in professional baseball. It is the rule banning gambling. Players have lifetime bans over this sort of thing. One player, whose name rhymes with 'Beat Nose', is still under the effects of the ban. Gambling is the biggest taboo in professional baseball.
So, of course, I'm writing this blog from the Holiday Inn/Ameristar Resort and Riverboat Casino where the team is staying. Remember, no gambling allowed!
Opening Night has come and been washed away. Heavy rains in the Omaha area, the same weather system that would cause so much destruction around Nashville on Friday caused the postponement of the season opener. The Sounds defense of their PCL title would have to wait.
Friday was not much better. It had stopped raining but the temperature dropped into the 30's. The Sounds showed some positives in their first game of 06', especially Ben Hendrickson who threw five innings of no-hit ball and pitched out of a couple of jams early on. Unfortunately the Royals scored five unearned runs in the eighth to get the win. The night took a definite turn for the worst after the game. I wandered over to the hotel/casino sports bar to get something to eat and found the place packed. Apparently a local band was performing and they usually brought in a good crowd. This was a great crowd. This was the type of crowd every band in Nashville wishes they could draw! Too bad the band in no way DESERVED a crowd this big. It's hard to appreciate the music scene in Nashville until you see a band like The Rumbles mangle every rock and roll standard there is. I guess you have to have a real sadistic band bent to jump from Cheap Trick to the Bee Gees to Green Day. They also rapped. I have no idea what they rapped, but I'm pretty sure they screwed it up. The worst part about The Rumbles was that they were not even really playing! I found out from some of the employees that they use a CD track for the music because you apparently have to concentrate really hard to screw up all those INXS tunes. They were a lip synching cover band. It boggles the mind. Most everything they did on stage was puzzling. Instead of the lead singer or the lead guitarist jumping into the crowd to show off, the bass player started moving through the crowd playing, well, psuedo playing and showing off. Unless your Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, bass players are pretty boring. There is an old joke that asks how you get a bass player off your doorstep. The answer? Pay him for the pizza. If any Nashville band ever wanted to be a big fish in a small musical pond head ut to Council Bluffs, IA. You'll own the place in a week.
Some good news. The Sounds recently signed a deal with WNSR Sports Radio 560. Though we have not done a full game yet on 560, so far everything is working great and the board ops are just as good as I remembered. More good news. I read the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online and they say that Ben Sheets will make a rehab start in Iowa vs. the Cubs. I feel bad that he won't pitch in Nashville. There has not been a huge star playing for the Sounds since Jason Scmidt made a rehab start, and that was before he became a Cy Young candidate. It will still be nice to watch Sheet's pitch as he has oustanding ability and is rumoured to be quite a fun character as well.
As always you can email at chuck@nashvillesounds.com. I'll try and answer as soon as my ears stop bleeding.
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