And...it's all over....until January of 2019

It's a bitter sweet day on Sunday - time to pack up and head back home to the cold. I love this week of camp but I truly am a home body and look forward to being back home to the "grind" of regular life.

Saturday is the finale night, silent auction, live auction, dinner, awards (team MVP's, individual camp awards), and goodbyes (both tearful and joyful) cap off the evening.

It was a lucrative night for the Lee Health as the camp raised over $40,000 (highlighting the $20,000 Golf cart outfitted by Yamaha and Tim Vernon) so a great night.

Awards were given out and I received 1 of the 3 team MVP's for the Ex-Terminators - we each received the pullovers the Pro Staff wear at the camp for the week with their signatures on the jacket. I had such a great week playing with my teammates these types of awards and recognition is nice but certainly not necessary.

They give out awards and while I certainly thought I would be the in the mix of potentially adding to some of my others -- I was nominated for MVP (under age 50) but it went to a very worthy player in Dave Prybilla -- who I was able to do some pre camp workouts with and while I did strike him out twice in game 1 (yes I get to say I struck the camp MVP twice.....) he went on a tear the rest of the week!  Great job Dave -- unfortunately as they were naming nominees for the award -- so many worthy guys but only one can take it! Andrew Williams took the Cy Young (under 50) award and he deserved that one as well.  I was a little bummed that our team did not get any awards as I thought we had the Rookie of the Year on the squad in a guy from Utah named Todd.  He was a sweet swinging lefty and hit the heck out of the ball, played more than stellar defense, and pitched flawlessly in the 2 appearances he made -- but in the end, the camp championship is more than worth any individual award!

Thank you to all my great teammates this week -- I truly knew we would have a great week on the Sunday evening team announcements!

--PB

~~ "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra ~~