Post by kenndoza (archived) on May 31, 2007 16:36:16 GMT -5
My brother is writing an upcoming story for his magazine about going to seven ballparks in seven days. He has a great job.
It got me thinking about a different challenge if we had an unlimited amount of time and money. Spend a summer seeing every one of your players on your CFCL team at least once.
It's a harder challenge than you might think, as not only do you have minor leaguers that you'd need to find, but you'd also have to deal with pitching rotations for your starting pitchers. And of course it's even harder to predict when a reliever will pitch. I think it would take all season to do it, and even then you'd probably miss a few. You'd almost have to structure your team around what you could do as opposed to the other way around. Like I'd want to have a lot of players on the same team, especially starters/relievers. You could watch a whole series in Atlanta for one weekend and maybe see one of your Atlanta starters, your two Atlanta relievers, two of your Atlanta hitters as well as anyone on the other team.
And of course if your team is like mine, you have to deal with frequent injuries as well - what if you planned all summer to see Chipper Jones, only to see him sit out the game you went to with hangnail?
It wouldn't be impossible, but you'd probably have to be unemployed and independently wealthy. And you'd have love baseball more than your wife.
It got me thinking about a different challenge if we had an unlimited amount of time and money. Spend a summer seeing every one of your players on your CFCL team at least once.
It's a harder challenge than you might think, as not only do you have minor leaguers that you'd need to find, but you'd also have to deal with pitching rotations for your starting pitchers. And of course it's even harder to predict when a reliever will pitch. I think it would take all season to do it, and even then you'd probably miss a few. You'd almost have to structure your team around what you could do as opposed to the other way around. Like I'd want to have a lot of players on the same team, especially starters/relievers. You could watch a whole series in Atlanta for one weekend and maybe see one of your Atlanta starters, your two Atlanta relievers, two of your Atlanta hitters as well as anyone on the other team.
And of course if your team is like mine, you have to deal with frequent injuries as well - what if you planned all summer to see Chipper Jones, only to see him sit out the game you went to with hangnail?
It wouldn't be impossible, but you'd probably have to be unemployed and independently wealthy. And you'd have love baseball more than your wife.
