Improvements Underway at the 'Shire

The Westfield Wheelmen wasted little time in starting improvements to their home, Wheelmen Park at Berkshire Industries, affectionately known to their cranks as 'The Shire.' With the closing of their pennant winning season, construction immediately began in building a massive JumboTron screen, dwarfing the screen at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium. "We felt we owed it to the cranks," announced Wheelmen owner Anheiser Van Pilsner at a press conference held today at Wheelmen Park. "The goal was to blend 19th century base ball with 21st century technology," Van Pilsner added, "and its a good thing...hey I'm doing my part to help the economy...although I may have to raise ticket prices from 10 to 25 cents."

Construction project foreman and Wheelmen outfielder "Sizzler" Wingate was having his doubts as to how the screen would be raised. "Have you ever seen us assemble the backstop?" shouted-out Wingate. Van Pilsner immediately denounced those comments and made assurances the screen will be ready for the 2010 season.

Above is an artist rendition and not the actual image.

Red Sox Beatles Montage

Since the Beatles are a hot topic right now, it reminded me of a video I remember that played on the big screen at Fenway Park during pre-games of the 2007 season, commemorating the 40th anniversery of both the Impossible Dream season of 1967 and the release of the Sgt. Pepper album. A while back I searched but could not locate until now. It is a roller coaster of emotion stemming all the Red Sox highlights and low lights in their history leading up and through the 2004 season with the background music of "A Day In The Life." The best part is the build-up of orchestral music, right before the alarm clock goes off...it was almost over...I get goose bumps when I watch.

If you have never seen / heard this you need to. It is unarguably the greatest combination of music and baseball.

As a Wheelmen you will enjoy Bill Lee getting sucker punched.
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