[BALCO]

Chevelle I knew you had a hear, share a little with Gipper. Only kidding, I am sure we all agree on lots of things. Talked to an umprire tonight which I played against in high school. Some of you may know him, they call him Smokey. If you have ever seen an umpire scream to the top of his lungs and let out a STRIKEEEEEE with a fist pump that would be him. Anyway to make a long story short, we talked about his umping this season then we talked about the game he umped tonight, which was South Floyd and Paintsville. Dont know the score or I would post it but I know it was 5 innigns and Paintsville won. What we talked about was the Paintsville kids slinging helmets and bats and other equipment in the dugout. I ask him who the kids were that did it and he told me and I will not say, because I am not going to bash on any kids, but to much surpise Hess wasn't one of them. Ol smoke said "he stuck out looking and went in and put his stuff on and came right back out, like he didn't even bat" Also said he was a pleasure to talk to behind the plate.