We needed a last minute Hail Mary to secure a host and JJ Gottsch pulled the strings at the eleventh hour! No Bats legend Rich Bellis informed us his son Jon works there, which was good because we had a man on the inside but perplexing in that all of a sudden we were confronted with an old Bellis and a young Bellis. It was like the same guy a generation apart, side-by-side.

Music City is always fun, and we had great party downtown in a cowboy honky-tonk. Andy Tarnow broke his wrist dancing and ended up in a hospital emergency room getting it set. Jake Burns was absent, stuck at work. His employer, the Washington Nationals, won the World Series.