It was a strange morning, it started with waking up at
4:00am to get ready to head out the airport, but I had one last thing to do
before finding my way to MSP. I had to
shovel. Evidently the strange weather
last night including raining….of all things among this cold weather season was
it was raining last night – so in the anticipation of below zero degree weather
for the next 96 hours (at around 5pm Saturday Minnesota time) – I decided I
should quickly grab the shovel and push
around the icy snow that gathered up on the driveway – with that accomplished
it was on to the airport – the weather was actually about 30 degrees outside
(thank goodness as the drive would have been awful) – when I left for Fort
Myers in 2010 it was -12 – I sort of feel guilty leaving Minnesota and the wife
and two boys have to deal with the coldest weather MN has seen in 20 years – ok
maybe not that guilty. Today’s forecast
in Ft Myers includes sun and about 70 – sure guilt removed.
The plan today is to head over to Fort Myers Beach and grab
lunch on the ocean – then we will head over to the hotel to check in and await
the opening night banquet. The first
night is always fun to hear the stories from the “rookies” and how they found
the camp or just a little about themselves.
This year will be very hard to keep track of everyone – an expected 120+
campers will be here this week playing some baseball.
Tomorrow we will get some warm ups going and baseball drills
– including infield, outfield, hitting, pitching, catching, & baserunning
tips from the Pro’s! The key to all of
this is just getting by each day without any injuries. The rookies will take the fields in the
afternoon to get some kinks out and get some real game action going – some
veterans (returning campers) will be mixed into those games to fill out the
missing pieces. The Pro Staff (The
Legends – as they are referred to on the camp website) will be walking around
taking notes to see who is good, who can play certain positions and quite
frankly – who will be chosen in the last round!
J
Sunday evening is a fun night – after the Pro Staff draft
the team – the teams will be announced – an exciting time and generally
speaking – thoughts of championships are in the air as you greet your teammates
and thinking about how much we are going to dominate (much like the evening
after you draft your fantasy football – which of course is going to
dominate…..) – always interesting to see the mix of players for each team and
this blogger in the past has attempted to break down each team and size up the
positives and negatives of each squad!!
~~ "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra ~~
Glad you felt a slight bit of guilt about leaving us all in the cold! At least you shoveled for your wife before you left :) Have fun! Can't wait to hear more about your experience!
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