Full Friday at Fenway

Hey everyone, this update should be pretty quick tonight. Had a great but long day at the ballpark today. I arrived at work at 8 AM, and after some usual jobs, I was told to work on patching the mound for the game tonight. It was definitely a pretty tough job, but rebuilding the mound at Fenway Park was also pretty incredible. After I had been working on it a little while it kind of hit me that that particular mound has had so many great pitchers throw from it, and that my work in the morning would be important for a Major League Baseball game at night. I loved it. Along with that, Weston, in telling me to work this particular task said, "Wes, help me with this and then finish up working on your mound." So yes, this makes it official, as long as I'm alive I'll be referring to the pitching mound at Fenway Park as my mound. Maybe there's some official way for the Red Sox to declare it "Wes Eppele Mound", hmm, I'll have to look into that. After lunch I helped set up Batting Practice, went to MLB/Boston Red Sox Skin Cancer Screening, and then after eating dinner in the team Dining Hall helped set up during pregame. This was my first game actually working on the field before first pitch, and it's really exciting to work in front of 40,000 excited fans. One of them being a guy named Ty that I know from living in the Quad at NC State, pretty crazy seeing him at the ballpark tonight. Oh, there was one funny thing that happened during pregame. I was helping Griff spread some turface in the infield, and as some advertisement for an airline was playing on the videoboard in center field, Griff said "Welcome Aboard!" I understood him saying that as him welcoming me to working my first game, so I replied "Thanks a lot!" Apparently Griff was just imitating what is said in the commercial, and after he told me that he said, "Hahaha, yeah Wes, welcome aboard." Anyway,I left work right before the game began, and came back to the room. I'll probably be going to bed soon, have to be back at the park at 6:30 AM. So, it's a short night for me tonight, but I'm not sure if I'd have it any other way after a great day at work.