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Plenty of cool things to report in the ATV-60 wrap- up for Thursday June 12,2008. Lets start out by sharing the great news that John Leonard posted earlier on his sight (All Things Valley League) about the feature story from the Daily News Record. Teresa posted it to the Turks home page pretty quick and it is a great read about the hard work our friend does every day for the love of the game! Rebecca and I were down at Bulldog Field for the tilt between Harrisonburg and Luray . Before the game started I was able to help coordinate a five minute celebration of the season just completed by the LHS Bulldogs (26-2). The crowd was great and thanks to some help from both Luray skipper Mike Bocock and majority owner Bill Turner the tribute went off without a hitch. I thanked Bob Wease over the PA for allowing the first pitch to be delayed for five minutes while I introduced the players one by one. By my count we had 19 of the 21 total players/coaches and staff! Rebecca took some pictu...

I always click over to John's sight before signing off and what a treat! We spent some time together last night and I also met his lovely wife for the first time. Bruce had invited me to throw out the first pitch last night and I grabbed John on the way out. He had no advance notice of the special event (I am trying to help out) and I know it meant more to me to share it with him. He has posted great coverage from last night and you need to jump over to the right side of our page and click over to his site!

It's 4:02 p.m. on Tuesday and I got my 90 good minutes of sleep so I am good to go. We will start off by stopping at Bulldog Field for the 6:00 first pitch of the Lancaster @ Luray Elite Eight baseball game. The game tonight will be the biggest in school history and though we can't be there but for the start, we will gobble up some pictures and say hello to some folks. We will then head north on US-340 to get to the "Bing" for the Waynesboro @ Front Royal game! Sabrena made it home safe and I have checked in with ALL THINGS VALLEY THINGS so let's hit the road and play 2! We will try to stay informed about Strasburg , Waynesboro and Alleghany prep scores as well. If anyone out there has info later on any of those games please let us know!

I am looking forward to the visit with Mike down at the radio station in Harrisonburg tonight. The coolest part of the promotion up until now has been getting to spend some time with the likes of Mike Barber, Chris Graham and speaking to groups like the Shenandoah Valley Grandstand Managers Club of New Market. After tonight I will be able to add one of the most loved and respected voices of our valley in Mike Schikman. I need to thank Teresa (Mrs.Turk) for the effort- I hope she didn't twist Mike's arm to hard for this opportunity. I guess if Mike is wearing a sling tonight I will know the answer to that question! Everybody is so, so busy these days and for Mike to take the time to visit with both John Leonard (All Things Valley League) and myself is a blessing. We are just 8 days way from the first pitch of another great Valley League Baseball season and sitting down with Mike should give us one more chance to spread the word about the best kept secret in baseball. The broadc...

The weather forecast for today here in Lubbock is 90 and sunny and it is time to head over to Texas Tech for the 1:00 p.m. start of the double header between the host Red Raiders and the visiting Dallas Baptist University Patriots. Texas Tech is coming off a 12-10 victory yesterday over #8 Oklahome State in Stillwater despite spotting OSU an 8-0 lead. TT (22-28) will look to payback the team from DBU (33-16) for a 16-7 road loss last week back in Dallas. The tie into the Valley League for me today is the five former or future Luray Wranglers that play for DBU, including lefty reliever senior Wayne Dowling (Loveland,Co.). Dowling spent the second half of the season with our family in Luray last year and a made him a promise that I would make a trip to watch him pitch before the season was over. Things got pretty busy with trying to get the promotion off the ground and before you know it the last week of the regular season is here. 1,858 miles was the total for the journey down but a ...

Life is good today in the world that is "Around The Valley in 60 Days". I just finished reading John Leonard's post on his blog from the Friday night dinner in New Market and the recap was excellent! Please take the time to read it at All Things Valley League. The post came early this morning- I imagine sometime between breakfast for his girls and his first period class at the High School. The second pleasant surprise came in a phone call from Mr.Shaun Cox. I was able to talk with Shaun (News Leader) for nearly a half hour about two things I love- baseball and the Valley League. I need to pass on a thank you to Boyd and Kay Synder from the Braves organization for their help with getting the News Leader on board. Mr.Cox is new to the area having moved from the Lexington, Ky. area recently and would appear to be a big time baseball fan! When he mentioned Lexington it gave me one more opportunity to talk about what I call the greatest baseball game not many know about...