My Dad called yesterday to report that Ben Brantley is FROM our home town of winston-salem! And so, I will absolutely be trying to win him over to my team, enticing him with little richard’s BBQ / krispy kreme doughnuts, and then maybe somehow along the way he will be kind enough to like my plays, and will call me Shakespeare, and then we’ll shake hands and go for a swim at the Peter S. Brunstetter Aquatic Center, and we all lived happily ever after.