From the Cheap Seats: Dave Mundy

While high-school football fans in Gonzales County are dancing in the streets these days (in between tropical storms), there’s some head-scratchin’ going on over in DeWitt County, where they’re not used to seeing more numbers in the “L” column than in the “W’s.”

I realize some of y’all who are sports fanatics will question my qualifications to the esteemed title of sports writer when I say this, but I have to be truthful: I don’t follow college sports very closely.

A key component of “Americana” is grabbing the kids and heading to the ballpark to catch a pro baseball game on a warm summer evening.

There is no place on earth like a baseball dugout. Doesn’t matter if it’s little league, high school, college ball or pro ball – the dugout, and the antics which go on in there during baseball games, are what make the game so special.

The yearly cycle of spring, summer, fall and winter really doesn’t mean much to most Texans. Here, there are only two seasons: football and bikini. And a lot of us like it when the two combine. There’s some locals who are doing their best to change that perception, however. They’d like to insert “basketball” in there between football and bikini, and they’re playing the caliber of ball which might win them a few converts.