Moses Lake, Wash.

[SoCalDude]

Moses Lake also has a summer college wood bat baseball league team.

It's 180 miles to Seattle, across the pass; 100 miles to Spokane, and about two hours to Pullman.

I've been to Seattle, Spokane, Pullman/Moscow (where I have cousins) and into western Idaho. If you have to drive two hours FROM Pullman to get somewhere, that classifies as "end of the world."

 

[Tom Petty]

Moses Lake also has a summer college wood bat baseball league team.

It's 180 miles to Seattle, across the pass; 100 miles to Spokane, and about two hours to Pullman.

I've been to Seattle, Spokane, Pullman/Moscow (where I have cousins) and into western Idaho. If you have to drive two hours FROM Pullman to get somewhere, that classifies as "end of the world."

it's to the west dude, heading back to the world.

 

[Tom Petty]

What's important is giving your readers the best possible coverage, whether it is locally written or written by AP, etc.
I wouldn't send an entry level writer out to cover, say, the 49ers or Warriors when we could utilize someone from one of the Bay Area papers. I would send someone to do some sort of second-day feature, at least until he is able to put his gee-whiz attitude aside and do a professional report.
Some papers in SoCal actually are bypassing their own people to use wire service accounts.

Right, but when an ad says, "Our newspaper covers 11 high schools, one local college, and Washington State University, in addition to the professional teams in Seattle." It makes it appear that they might be in the press box at Safeco Field or Martin Stadium, when they will actually be covering Moses Lake and Ephrata high schools.

why do you hate the quincy jackrabbits?

 

[WazzuGrad00]

Tom's right.

It's not so much the end of the world, more like the middle of nowhere.

It's a nice little town, though. The lake is very nice and makes it like a high-desert oasis. It's relatively green (thanks to irrigation) and the drive to Spokane is boring, but quick.

I've got no quarrel with the good folks in Quincy. Now, those bastards at Lind-Ritzville are another story.

 

[Tom Petty]

Tom's right.

It's not so much the end of the world, more like the middle of nowhere.

It's a nice little town, though. The lake is very nice and makes it like a high-desert oasis. It's relatively green (thanks to irrigation) and the drive to Spokane is boring, but quick.

I've got no quarrel with the good folks in Quincy. Now, those bastards at Lind-Ritzville are another story.

lmao - yes, those rat-biscuit ritzville folks can burn in heck.

also, when i think about moses lake, i think more: in the middle of somewhere, with a nowhere zip code ... since cool places really aren't THAT far away.

also, does that area still have the irrigation "ditches" to cool off in during the 100-degree summer days?

 

[m2spts]

What is your problem?

 

[Giggity]

Tom's right.

It's not so much the end of the world, more like the middle of nowhere.

It's a nice little town, though. The lake is very nice and makes it like a high-desert oasis. It's relatively green (thanks to irrigation) and the drive to Spokane is boring, but quick.

I've got no quarrel with the good folks in Quincy. Now, those bastards at Lind-Ritzville are another story.

lmao - yes, those rat-biscuit ritzville folks can burn in heck.

also, when i think about moses lake, i think more: in the middle of somewhere, with a nowhere zip code ... since cool places really aren't THAT far away.

also, does that area still have the irrigation "ditches" to cool off in during the 100-degree summer days?

You've got it all wrong. The Ephrata Tigers are the evil empire of the (Caribou Trail League?). Or at least they were 20 years ago.

And there's still canals everywhere, I believe. But I think the water slides are gone after the big scandal.

 

[Tom Petty]

scandal? do tell.

some of the best days of my life were spent just before my junior year of high school at those "canals," flanked by several cold short racks and rather hot ephrata girls during the dead of summer.

 

[Giggity]

scandal? do tell.

some of the best days of my life were spent just before my junior year of high school at those "canals," flanked by several cold short racks and rather hot ephrata girls during the dead of summer.

If memory serves, a scam artist put together a group of investors to finance the water slides. He put up enough of the capital he'd collected to get them built, but pocketed the rest and disappeared. I'm sure I'm screwing up the details, but that's the gist of what I remember about it.

 

[Tom Petty]

thanks.