I don’t know when this Peoria Chiefs minor league baseball game took place and I don’t care. Coulda been yesterday, coulda been last year. Coulda been when ma and pa Burns just had themselves a twinkle in their eyes. But I’ll be damned if Tim “Wild Thang” Lepard taking the time to share his dreams with a minor league pallpark crowd ain’t reason enough to revisit a legend and his Team Ghost Riders.

And Tim’s dream?

“In 1962, a little boy was born and his dream and his goal… was to own a monkey.”

You tell ‘em about dreams, Tim. By God, you tell ‘em about dreams.

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I’m not usually one to embrace hyperbole or throw around tired Interwebs jargon like “epic” or “bonertastic”, which I just made up, but I think it’s safe to say that “Team Ghost Riders” is the greatest minor league ballpark promotion of all-time. As you can see in the banner pic, the troupe features cowboy monkeys riding on dogs and herding goats. I could write down 1,000 of my favorite things in this world on tiny pieces of notebook paper, put them into a hat and draw three, and I still probably wouldn’t come up with something as awesome as this. Maybe if I drew “naked women”, “glass bottom boat” and “White House lawn” but that can be taken care of with a few hours on Craigslist.

Memphis rodeo cowboy Tim “Wild Thang” Lepard is the brilliant mastermind behind Team Ghost Riders and if Time Magazine and the Nobel Prize committee have any hair left on their respective beanbags, Tim will lead a clean sweep in every major award on the planet this year. Enough with the chit chat already. Let’s see some freaking cowboy monkeys riding dogs.

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