Groundhog Day

If you have seen the movie "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray it is commonly used comparison to the baseball life. Every day is the same thing. That is partly the reason I have been lacking on the interesting posts lately. Here is the typical daily schedule for me.

Wake up somewhere between 5:30 and 11:00 AM depending on what the morning plans are.
12:00 - Leave the house for the ballpark and pick up something to eat
12:30 - Get to park, eat and check emails
~1:00 - Players start arriving for treatments
1:50 - Pitchers stretch
2:15 - Extra cage work
2:50 - Position players stretch, followed by infield and batting practice
4:40 - Batting practice over, head back inside
Pre-game treatments, but mostly talk crap and mess around on internet
6:00 - Players head out to prepare for game
6:35 - First pitch
~9:30 - Game over, post-game treatments, eat, shower
10:30 - Leave ballpark to go home
Go to bed between 11:30 PM and 4:00 AM depending on what the evening and morning plans are.

Next day, do it all again. Every few days, do it in a different city, but have about a 3:30-4:00 bus depending on game time. Generally there are restaurants within walking distance of hotel and occasionally a mall or something similar to pass the time. When the family was here, we had a car everywhere we went so we were able to check out the city. Usually there is no car though so we have to entertain ourselves within walking distance.

As you can imagine, it can get pretty monotonous doing the exact same thing every day. In this league, we only had one actual day game at 1:00. Those are always nice because it is a change from the norm and you usually have time to go get a nice dinner and enjoy the evening. When I first started in baseball, I would talk to my then girlfriend, now wife and she would ask how the day went. It took her finally being with me in the summer to understand that I was serious when I said it was the same every day. Spring training is even worse, but that's a story for another day.