Another Travel Day

Today is another travel day for us.  We have yet to play a game within a plane ride away from campus.  We were supposed to play a midweek game yesterday but of course it was rained out.  We leave campus at 12:30 today for a 2:55 flight and travel has already passed the point of being monotonous.  We have to leave early to check 35 guys in because airlines haven't figured out the best way to check us all in and it takes years.  It is a big weekend for us in conference and it will give us some insight how we will finish at the end of the year.  Our Friday starter was injured last week and is missing his start this week and we haven't really figured out our midweek starters yet so we're going to throw our bullpen instead and try to give them a different look.  If everyone goes out and does their job we'll come away with a win.

Life On the Road

As a northern program we usually spend the first month of the season on the road.  When I hear away games I automatically think airports, buses, hotels, study hall, hotel breakfast, warm weather, and tan (sunburn for myself).  The upside to the road is we don't have to worry about waking up at 6:30 in the morning for tarp duty which tends to happen at least once a weekend at home.  Suitcases turn into dressers and hotels become our homes.  I actually get more sleep on the road because the dorms aren't quite the quietest on weekends.  I'm almost positive the walls are just our imagination at 3 A.M. when the neighbors are getting back from their night out and can't go to bed so instead choose to have the bar come back and have a sing-along to "The Show Goes On".  (It's alright though because we get them back at 6:30 in the morning to Eminem's "Stay Wide Awake"). Flying is definitely better than taking a bus but it never ceases to amaze me the questions asked by strangers and airport security. "Oh you play baseball? Are you guys going to Spring Training?" Yea we're actually skipping a month and a half of school to go down and play major league teams.