Eleran

I thought he was the Marlboro man, sans hat and smoke

Who Wagner was friends with?

He doesn't even seem like he's trying to pull his foot out of his mouth - it's almost like he's thinking in his head "You're a girl - you can't understand what I'm trying to say"

Yeah, that's the same pair from earlier in the season - painful to listen to them.

3. "Core"?

Was this the same pair of people who were doing it earlier in the season? Flo was PAYING those people?!?!?

Better buy a new crystal ball

And apparently the Cadets are once more in need of housing after all.

If most towns are like mine, the answer would often be no. Use of township ballfields is fairly strictly allotted to local groups by permit, and anyone using them during the permitted time can be removed by the park rangers and police. Anything as big as a drum corps would certainly make the park rangers look into the situation. Pickup games - free play - happen all the time on these fields, but they have to move if the permit-holder comes along and wants them. While summer usage by groups is often limited, there may also be restrictions on the fields for maintenance and recovery. All in all, it would be unwise to just show up and assume a corps can monopolize a field or two all day long without problems. A corps really needs to know that when they arrive somewhere, they have complete control of the fields they are using (with no possibility of complaint for noise violations, etc.). And as for using school fields, it's even more restricted, and usually there will be fees charged to use them.

Cadets have faced Blue Stars head-to-head four times in July, with the difference between their scores below I don't think you can read too much into 4 data points, but if there is any trend, it was that Cadets were increasing their lead, with Hattiesburg either being an outlier, or possibly a reversal of the prior trend. I would think St. Louis and San Antonio, where they were ranked amidst all the corps, were better indications than Hattiesburg. We'll know soon enough on Saturday at Atlanta if it's actually a reversal of the prior trend. 7/25 1.450 7/23 2.400 7/21 1.825 7/15 1.575

Maybe Cadets could add some tarps ...

Yeah, we want more Brass videos!

why?

I think I counted one single crowd shot where the audience didn't exude boredom.

but will you really be able to report on the sound of corps ... or the sound of their amplifiers?

Long time practice in the sporting world, which is why I refused to charge for tryouts when I ran a club.

Dilly, Dilly!

Today's DCI amps "go to eleven"

Well, if they don't want him to call up System Blue ...

Nah, he's had one of those for years. Of course, in the next couple weeks we have to decide which horns to ship out to college.

Speaking of care packages, as it so happens my son gets one today - first one we've sent in his 5 years of DCI. Hope he enjoys the horn polish.

Gene Hackman

Can't do 'Rite of Spring' every year ...

You lost me there, buddy ...

You're going to make me pull out that photo in a minute ...