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| Hines, Upton and Kanter at the radio station in Evergreen. |
It was a lot of fun having the NBA’s Enes Kanter in town
last week. He stopped by the radio station early Wednesday of last week, and I
got the chance to snap his picture with Luther Upton and Chris Hines.
As a little joke, Luther stood on a stack of soft drink
crates for the photo, to even out the height difference between himself and the
two basketball stars. Luther is 5-11. Chris is 6-9, and Kanter is 6-11.
To start with, I don’t think Kanter knew what to make out of
Luther and his crates, but the look on his face was priceless. To his credit,
he took it all in stride.
If you go back and look at their picture on last week’s
front page, you can’t see the crates that Luther’s standing on, but you can see
that Luther looks a few inches taller than Chris and Kanter.
Kanter, who plays center for the Portland Trailblazers, is
probably more accustomed to being interviewed by big time sports media
personalities, and it was nice of him to spend a few minutes with us at the
radio station.
It was also very nice of Kanter to join Chris in Evergreen
and to take part in the youth basketball camp sponsored by the City of
Evergreen. A young, wealthy professional basketball player can really go
anywhere he wants to go, and for him to take the time to visit Evergreen says a
lot about his relationship with Chris and his willingness to help young people.
It goes without saying that Kanter is welcome back to
Conecuh County anytime and just in case he swings by the radio station, we’ll
have the drink crates on standby.
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This year’s MLB All-Star Game will be played on July 9 in
Cleveland and if you haven’t cast your all-star ballot yet, you’ve got until
tomorrow (Friday) at 3 p.m. to do so. You can cast a ballot online at www.mlb.com/all-star/ballot.
Everything is done nowadays online, but I can remember
casting a paper all-star ballot when I was a kid. I guess I was maybe in the
fourth or fifth grade when my family took a trip to the old Fulton County
Stadium in Atlanta to watch the Braves play. When you entered the stadium, you
could pick up a paper ballot and take it to your seat.
Those old ballots were the type that had little perforated
circles beside each player’s name. You’d take the point of a pencil and punch
out the little hole for the player you wanted to vote for. When you were done
or on your way out of the stadium, you’d drop your ballot in big cardboard boxes
they had set up throughout the concourse beneath the bleachers.
After the game, stadium staff would pick up these boxes and
then feed the ballots into computer scanners that counted up the votes. The world
has moved on since then, and now everything is done on computer, but I’d love
to see one of those old paper ballots again.
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