How about a little pre-season minor-league action?

by Paperwork Ninja on Aug 27, 2010 4:26 PM CDT

The Springfield Jr. Blues will be holding a pre-season charity game against the Chicago Hitmen at the Nelson Center on September 4th at 7pm. Tickets are $3.00. This is to benefit one of the Jr. Blues' team board members, whose daughter was critically injured in a boating accident on July 11th. This will help with her physical rehabilitation bills. So if any of you are in road-trip distance and want to watch some Juniors hockey live, come on out.

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Dang

I’m going to be out of town. (ok, out of the state).

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by DanGNR on Aug 27, 2010 4:40 PM CDT reply actions

Should be able to make it...

…provided my brakes haven’t gone completely south by then.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

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by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 27, 2010 5:00 PM CDT reply actions

address?!?

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Aug 28, 2010 10:04 AM CDT reply actions

Here 'tis...

Springfield Jr. Blues
The Nelson Center
1601 North Fifth Street
Springfield, IL 62702
217-525-2589

Take I-55 north to Springfield, go past the power plant that looks like it should have an giant inflatable pink pig floating over it (Pink Floyd, “Animals”) to Exit 100A, Sangaman Avenue. West on Sangamon Avenue about 3-4 miles to Fifth Street. Turn left (south) on Fifth, go down five blocks on your left, and Nelson Center should be on your right in Lincoln Park. Parking is free, i think (it was the last time I was there, anyway).

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

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by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 28, 2010 4:51 PM CDT up reply actions

claimed

to be a 2 hour drive- , if we get a group i might go. heck if we get a group 1 1/2 to 1 3/4ths people can ride with me (i got rules though) (mach 1 so 1 person gets to ride in reasonable confort any full size people who think they can survive a 2 hour trip in the back of a pony car ummmm hop in.

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Aug 28, 2010 6:50 PM CDT up reply actions

And on Sunday the 5th...

Benld, Illinois is having their annual Croatian Days in Memorial Park. Come on out for homemade cabbage rolls, brats, and other Slavic goodies, and polka down to the music of the Mighty Tamburitzans.

I-55 to Exit 33, Illinois Route 4. Route 4 north through Staunton (birthplace of your GTPD and home of El Rey de Donut) to Benld (Route 138/Central Avenue). Right on 138/Cenbtral, cross the tracks, turn left at KJ’s On The Hill and two blocks over to the park.

I’m not kidding. The cabbage rolls are to friggin’ die for.

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 28, 2010 4:57 PM CDT reply actions

on vacation like the second week of sept

was looking at day trips, some city in kentucky is having oktoberfest like sept 11th. ummmmm

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Aug 28, 2010 6:46 PM CDT up reply actions

CROATIAN DAYS!!!!!

Apparently back in the day, well before I was born, this was a huge event in Benld. Seems the Italian-American Days that happens on Memorial Day weekend has pretty much surpassed it and started to sprint laps around the dead corpse. I’ve never been able to make it to either as it always falls at a time I can’t make it for one reason or another.

And this year would be no exception – gotta go to a family reunion in Collinsville that day. Do they ALWAYS have it on the day before Labor Day?

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.

by Donut King on Aug 28, 2010 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions

Collinsville... home of the World's Largest Catsup/Ketchup Bottle...

"If we do not prepare for ourselves the role of the hammer, there will be nothing left but that of the anvil."

-- Otto von Bismarck, 1851

http://futurenotes.blogspot.com

by Tomorrows Blues on Aug 29, 2010 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions

Just out of curiosity...

… how the hell does one correctly pronounce “Benld”, anyway? Is the L silent? Is it a two-syllable name? Was the place founded by Kent Hrbek?

by BleedBlue42 on Aug 29, 2010 3:58 AM CDT up reply actions

What Paperwork Ninja said (below).

The L is not silent.

Various stories around what happened and why, but at some point around the turn of the century, a sign was to be painted on the outskirts of town to honor someone named Ben L. Dorsey. However, all that showed on the sign the next day was “BEN L D”. And it stuck.

Yes, we’re strange people.

St. Louis Game Time . . . I need another beer.
And I can also write things in 140 characters or fewer.

by Donut King on Aug 29, 2010 9:20 PM CDT up reply actions