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grw
Citizen
Username: Grw
Post Number: 381
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 10:04 am: |     |
The South Orange/Maplewood Cal Ripken Baseball Parade is this Saturday starting at 9:00am. It will begin at Columbia High School and go down Valley St to Memorial Park.
Come out and support the Kids |
Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 2533
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 10:10 am: | |
grw...thanks for posting this...also included in the parade will be over 200 girls from the M-SO Softball Program...so thats around 1400 kids from both communities combined...in uniform. Should be fun to watch. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5367
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 4:23 pm: | |
Pizzaz suggested that a contingent of MOL regulars march in the parade. Anyone know if this is going to happen? |
sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 2057
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 7:13 pm: | |
Isn't it really just supposed to be the kids and their coaches? |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2907
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 9:58 pm: | |
Joan: Is Bunny's sponsoring a Little League team?
Otherwise, if, as you say, it was a Pizzaz suggestion, I suspect it was a humorous one. If it was't meant in jest, I'd have to say it sounds like a rather hamhanded attempt to exploit a kid-based event for (dare I whisper it?) political exposure.
...But I think John must be smarter than that, don't you?
-s.
BTW: I bet he was in Little League when he was a kid!
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Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 887
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, April 15, 2005 - 8:42 pm: | |
No! No! NO! Please MOL posters do NOT march in this parade. It's for the kids, not us. Now, there is nothing that says we can't have our own parade some other Saturday!
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Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 2566
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, April 15, 2005 - 10:06 pm: | |
Im marching...so is grw...and ML...and jeffl...and parkbench...Mr. shh...and a number of other posters Id imagine. Dont try to stop us either. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 898
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 3:52 am: | |
GRW is a coach! I'm guessing the rest of you are as well! Ia that right? March away then!
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Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2920
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 8:04 am: | |
Coaches ALWAYS march. Sponsors, random adults, and political opportunists should NOT. It's a KID thing.
-s.
BTW: I think it's great that S.O. & Mplwd are finally united at the Little League Level. The next step (unless it's already been accomplished) ought to be the total "integration" of teams (selection without regard to home town), which will further strengthen the program, and provide a uniform "farm" system for more senior-level leagues, and (of course) the CHS teams...
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Ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 216
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 7:08 am: | |
Soda - Accomplished, but not intentionally. Players are drafted only on the basis of their ability, not which town they live in. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 903
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 5:39 pm: | |
The team my nephews play on has players from both South Orange and Maplewood. Boys and girls. From what I understand, a new system was created to make the teams more equally matched.
My nephews have a great and fair coach who treats all the players the same. So far they've won all their games! Not looking forward to their first loss! |
Pizzaz
Citizen
Username: Pizzaz
Post Number: 1754
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 5:05 pm: | |
The parade was great. I took the liberty of having a team picture taken. 
You may view the picture on my homepage.
www.johnpogany.com |
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