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Wild Card/Monday — 8.3.15

We’ve reached the “warning track” of summer — August. In this week’s edition of Sports Illustrated, a commenter likened August to a baseball warning track. When an outfielder is racing for a long fly ball, he knows that the fence is near when his feet touch the warning track. On Saturday, with the celebration of Art on the Green and accompanying activity on Sherman Avenue and City Park, our feet touched the running track of summer. NFL football camps have started. We’re running out of days in the glorious summer 2015. Soon, it’ll be county fair time. Which means local politics are about to fire up again. Squeeze as much summer out of the remaining days as you can. Meanwhile, I’ll keep feeding the insatiable maw of this blog beast. Here’s today’s Wild Card …

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog