Healey Memorial Golf coming up
Registrations are open for the upcoming 14th annual Joseph F. Healey Memorial Golf Championship, the region’s premier amateur golf event, which is slated for July 18-20.
The Healey is a 54-hole, medal play event to honor Healey, a beloved golf pro in the area, celebrating the spirit of the game and the values Joe represented.
Round 1 is July 18 at Crystal Lake Golf Club, and Round 2 is slated for Saturday, July 19, at Atkinson CC. After the cut, the championship round will be Sunday, July 20, at Bradford Country Club.
Players with handicap indexes of under 12.0 are eligible to play. Cost of the event is $175 and helps benefit the Healey’s college scholarship program, which has provided nearly $100,000 in awards over the term of the event to area students.
Champ Nick Maccario and Senior Division champ Bill Drohen are set to tee it up and defend their crowns.
For more information or to register, check out the event’s new Website: jfhmemorial.org.
Pemberton piling up offers
The NCAA live period for college coaches to talk to members of the Class of 2027 in boys basketball opened on Sunday at midnight.
Shortly after the clock struck 12, Methuen’s Antonio Pemberton had picked up a “Power 4” offer from the University of Maryland. Another, this one from Oklahoma State, quickly followed for the Brewster Academy and Mass. Rivals point guard.
Fenway Follies
So let me get this one straight.
Bleacher seats for most Red Sox games are now up in the $70 range. Parking is in the $50-plus range.
A Fenway Frank costs $8.50.
The Red Sox climb back into the race with a nice five-game win streak at home and then jettison their top player, Rafael Devers, to San Francisco for a pile of prospects – because they don’t like his $303 million contract.
And the Fenway workers have voted to strike because they are making under $20 an hour.
Under $20 an hour!
Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?
How anyone can support the Red Sox and for that matter anything that has to do with Major League Baseball is beyond comprehension.
I will watch from afar, listen to games on the radio and keep an eye on the home team. If I ever feel the need to watch baseball, it will be at a minor league park somewhere.
Not at that dump in the Fens.
Finally, on Devers
The shock of the Devers deal to the Giants has yet to wear off.
But I’ll share my take.
Boston management messed up this relationship last year. The Red Sox knew Devers at third was not possible. He had regressed defensively.
But the common sense move was Devers to first base, one they should have told him about last fall. Instead, for some reason, Craig Breslow was married to “Bobby Dalbec 2.0” at first base — that is Triston Casas — instead of doing what was right for his baseball team.
Breslow’s infatuation with Casas set in motion the series of gross, often public, events that led to the Devers deal for pennies on the dollar.
Bad deal. Worse management.