GREAT TELEVISION LAST NIGHT

What a great show last night. I knew it was going to be on, waited all day for it, turned it on at 9:30, and had the great pleasure to watch good television. I thoroughly enjoyed it, great entertainment.

The Championship Game, the Big One, the Champion was Crowned, in girls little league softball.

Pure sport, 100 percent, and pure joy on their faces, that is great to see. Makes me feel good, just to see the joy on their faces, a little part of America is good, alive and well.

A team from Mattawan, Michigan was playing a team from Pequannock, New Jersey. Both undefeated in post season play. I had watched the Michigan team the night before, awesome. Now this is Little League Softball, 12 and 13 year olds.

Michigan scored 3 in the bottom of the first ..... bunt, bunt, slam, slam, slam. Did the same thing in the second, but NJ kept plinking away, and that kept it interesting.

The Michigan team tried to keep straight faces, but every once in a while, a fantastic smile would break out, they were ahead, it looked like a victory, but try to keep a straight face.

In interviews, most of the gals had Derek Jeter as their hero. Turned out, he was born in New Jersey, same town, and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, just a few miles from their town.

It is nice to see fond memories created, and those gals will never forget last night. They are champs, in more ways that one. And, I guess, the team from NJ is going to be met at the airport today, and paraded back to their town.

A local spot in Mattawan was elbow to elbow for the game, I think they indicated they had 20 plus TV’s set up. Mattawan, is a Village, not too big. The town will be BIG today, filled with pride. And well they should be. How great to be able to show pride, in bunch of great kids who played their hearts out, rather than the somber parades we see nowdays, for returning casualties. If I was younger, I would drive up there today, just to be a part of it.

Great television last night, and most of the country missed it. What a shame.