Yesterday's preliminary bout.

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Jo opens with a left jab: "Geez, I could smell the pollution from your cigar from across the street."

Terry responds with a right cross: "How's about I get my car, rev up the engine and give you some carbon monoxide to smell?"

The round is scored as a draw.

Shakedown cruise

Every year we have to retrain ourselves, relearn routines. We're working out the kinks before tomorrows MU onslaught.

It doesn't take a village.

It just takes three sharp women.

Enter and sign in, please

1130

1600

Preparations Continue

As I mentioned early, a lot of people are working hard in preparation for the NMA reunion. Starting tomorrow requires getting ready today.

From Virginia Beach to Kansas City to hotel

hallway.

Believe it or not, this room will soon be filled

with MUs, their spouses and their coffee cups.

Deb Holl and Jo Knox preparing the registration room.

New for the 2016 NMA Reunion: The Slander Roll.

The NMA Slander Roll lists the names of MUs whose names come up in sea stories during measured periods of time. It is not intended to denigrate or criticize. The Slander Roll merely demonstrates that whether you attend the reunion or not, you are not forgotten. Far from it. Far, far, far from it.

Slander Roll #1 lists MUs who were mentioned by name during two 3-minute periods yesterday in the lounge and in a hired van on the way to the ballgame:

You Are Not Forgotten:

Rick Holdsworth
Nate Wilensky
Dave Weeks
Dale Vanderpool *
Gary Seitz
Michel Slaughter
Hymie Solano
Steve Rawson
Phil Greerson
Lee Hudson *
Rabbit Simmons
Jim Savage
Randy Martell *

* Asterisks denote MUs who are expected to attend but have not yet arrived and if they'd been here, would not find themselves listed on the Slander Roll

Verbatim: In the Navy Van Again

The Setting: 
A hired van heading to Kauffman Stadium on Interstate 29

The Cast:
Front seats: A.J. the Driver, Stephanie Rowland
Middle Seat: Frank Mullen, Deb Holl, Jim Richards
Back Seat: Kim Holl, Leon Harris, Deb Harris

The Action: 
MUs and spouses are all talking at once.

The Verbatim Dialog:

Stephanie: A.J., if these people become too rowdy for you to concentrate, just tell me and I'll quiet them down.

A.J.: It's okay--I have kids of my own.