Things are getting better in fantasy baseball

My fantasy baseball fortunes have taken a turn for the better. I'm in three leagues and I've struggled all year. However, in my keeper league I've gone from sixth place to a tie for second with one day to go. Finishing second (or third) in that league is actually an accomplishment.

In another league for editorial writers I've gone from 10th place to the championship round (it's a head-to-head league with playoffs). I'm leading the championship game -- barely. I need to hang on for one more day to win that league. I don't know if I can.

Finally, there's the Pee Dee League I've been in for several years. I'm going to finish a pitiful eighth out of 10 teams. I just couldn't get it going in that league this year. I still don't know what went wrong.

But as Meatloaf once said, "Two out of three ain't bad."

Actually, I'm glad the season is ending. It's tiring and I need to focus on fantasy football.

Nice Harley group, bad timing

I was driving back to Shelby on Friday morning and got behind a group of impressive Harley-Davidson motorcycles around Gastonia. I believe they were from a Michigan chapter based on the logos they were wearing.

I don't know why they were in Gastonia. It could have had something to do with the Harley store there and the fact that Click Baldwin owned it. I really don't know. At some point between I-85 and U.S. 74, all of us got stuck behind a chicken truck. I found it annoying with feathers flying everywhere. I know this group really had to find it annoying because on a motorcycle you don't have the protection to keep feathers from flying in your face. Fortunately, they got around the chicken truck rather quickly. They also seemed far more patient than myself.

All I know is after staring at these really plump chickens crowded in their cages it really put me in the mood for a juicy steak.

I will say this Harley group was decked out in some impressive equipment. They blow the tired old stereotype of motorcycle groups right out the window. My hat is off to them.

Rock legend dies

I've always dreamed that rock band Pink Floyd would reunite one day. That can never happen now. Founding member Richard Wright has died after a battle with cancer. I hope he'll be remembered as a great keyboardist to a legendary band, not as the guy who was pushed out after The Wall was recorded. I did get to see him in concert in Raleigh when I was in college.