Two Non-Stop Days

Hello again. I'm back for a quick update after being pretty busy with work and other things the last two days. Anyways, yesterday was a pretty hectic day at the ballpark. I went into work at 8 AM, and had tasks of setting up stanchions in the warning track in front of the Green Monster, cleaning up some debris around the warning track, sweeping baselines, and helping our head groundskeeper water the infield. Although this may not seem like too much, it took pretty much all morning until my lunch break. After lunch, I, along with some other crew members, set up batting practice for the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays decided to have an early batting practice yesterday, so we had all the screens in place and the cage ready for hitting by 2 PM. While batting practice was going on I worked on cleaning the Simplicity mower we have and also some other simple maintenance things around the grounds crew area. At 4 PM I clocked out for the day, but because I had been there all day I was invited to stay for dinner at 4:30 in the media/team dining hall at the top of Fenway Park. Phil, my roommate, and I decided to wait for dinner, and we went up to the dining room at the appropriate time. The guy working the team sign-in desk had a little trouble understanding me when I told him my last name "Eppele", said I had a little too much drawl in it, hahaha. Eating dinner up there was pretty cool. Dennis Eckersley, a former MLB pitcher who starred with the Athletics in the 80's was seated a few tables away from me. Oh, another thing that was cool about eating up there, all the placeware had the Red Sox logos on them. Anyways, after dinner and getting back to the dorm I went back to Fenway Park and met up with a family friend from Raleigh to catch the game for the night. We had a great time watching the game, the Sox were dominant with many home runs, and I even got video of David Ortiz's first home run of the season. Jason then went back to his hotel after the game, I headed back to Emmanuel and caught some sleep. Today my routine was pretty much the same as yesterday. I had a few assignments today that were different than yesterday, but many things were the same. Batting practice was neat to be around today as the Boston Red Sox have Interleague play this weekend against the New York Mets. The Sox pitchers were in the batting cage, learning how to hit again. Dennis Eckersley was around the ballpark again, and I also was about 2 or 3 feet away from Scott Rolen and Vernon Wells this afternoon out in the hallway near the Visitor Clubhouse. After work and dinner tonight at Fenway Park I came back to the room and cleaned up and I just recently got finished watching the Hurricanes-Penguins game. Now, time to sleep again and do it again tomorrow! Thanks for reading, I know this was pretty verbose, hopefully there won't be many more days where I can't share something. Catch ya later!