Here we go with installation numero dos on what I’ve learned here at the AWL:
(4) If you ask to answer the phones, you’ll be answering them constantly for the rest of the month. The first week that everyone reported to the Ray Kroc Complex, the phone consistently ran off the hook. A testament to the newspaper ad that ran promoting our $20 season pass. I started answering after the first couple days, and I haven’t stopped since. I’ve talked to Japanese agents, newspaper people, what feels like half of Canada, and plenty of people who assumed my authority to be much greater than it really is. Mike Marshall I am not. The best call had to have been late on a Sunday night, as I waited for the result to come in from Blythe, a job-seeker phones in past 7 o’clock. On a Sunday! Hmmm…Must need a job as bad as me! He ain’t gonna get it calling on Sundays.
(5) Being ballpark DJ is a lot of fun. I got a taste of this last summer while working for a summer collegiate team in Ohio, playing the BP music. Out here in Yuma and down in San Luis both, I’ve got to play plenty of tunes for the gathered. Lots of oldies, because, who doesn’t enjoy the music of the 60’s? I remember taping songs off the radio as a kid, and with so many songs in, out, and rocking in 120 seconds give or take, what’s not to like? Chuck Berry visited my high school in Missouri annually to speak to a Humanities class, and having sat in on that twice, I’m a huge fan. Although, if you listen not-so-closely, “Roll Over Beethoven” and “Johnny B. Good” have unapologetically the exact same guitar parts. The true “Oldies” format is disappearing from FM radio, with a good example being right here in Yuma. 1400AM is the only place in town to hear Motown, the British Invasion, and so much other good stuff. However, if you come out to the ballpark, we got your covered!
As for the players, they wish they were getting more hip-hop, or more screeching heavy metal, but they’ve got the stuff between the lines to worry about. The other consistent request I got from the players was, “are you going to play my walk-up music?”. For 195 different players, coordinating all that would’ve required a staff-member all to itself. All I could do was laugh, and tell ‘em “get me your CD”.
(6)Baseball players don’t wear much facial hair. I’ve taken some ribbing from Marcus and others in the front office about my lumberjack beard. I came from Flagstaff, Arizona, up in the mountains at 7,000 feet of elevation. It’s almost a requirement in that mountain-town. But the cat-calls got me thinking, of nearly 200 ballplayers, I don’t really have a rival beard. There are some goat-tee’s, a sideburn or two, but nobody wearing a couple months worth of face-warmer. The only thing I think is that ballplayers, by nature, are very particular and thus crack out their razors often. It can’t be because there are a lot of babyfaces, because the average age in the league is in the mid-20’s.
(4) If you ask to answer the phones, you’ll be answering them constantly for the rest of the month. The first week that everyone reported to the Ray Kroc Complex, the phone consistently ran off the hook. A testament to the newspaper ad that ran promoting our $20 season pass. I started answering after the first couple days, and I haven’t stopped since. I’ve talked to Japanese agents, newspaper people, what feels like half of Canada, and plenty of people who assumed my authority to be much greater than it really is. Mike Marshall I am not. The best call had to have been late on a Sunday night, as I waited for the result to come in from Blythe, a job-seeker phones in past 7 o’clock. On a Sunday! Hmmm…Must need a job as bad as me! He ain’t gonna get it calling on Sundays.
(5) Being ballpark DJ is a lot of fun. I got a taste of this last summer while working for a summer collegiate team in Ohio, playing the BP music. Out here in Yuma and down in San Luis both, I’ve got to play plenty of tunes for the gathered. Lots of oldies, because, who doesn’t enjoy the music of the 60’s? I remember taping songs off the radio as a kid, and with so many songs in, out, and rocking in 120 seconds give or take, what’s not to like? Chuck Berry visited my high school in Missouri annually to speak to a Humanities class, and having sat in on that twice, I’m a huge fan. Although, if you listen not-so-closely, “Roll Over Beethoven” and “Johnny B. Good” have unapologetically the exact same guitar parts. The true “Oldies” format is disappearing from FM radio, with a good example being right here in Yuma. 1400AM is the only place in town to hear Motown, the British Invasion, and so much other good stuff. However, if you come out to the ballpark, we got your covered!
As for the players, they wish they were getting more hip-hop, or more screeching heavy metal, but they’ve got the stuff between the lines to worry about. The other consistent request I got from the players was, “are you going to play my walk-up music?”. For 195 different players, coordinating all that would’ve required a staff-member all to itself. All I could do was laugh, and tell ‘em “get me your CD”.
(6)Baseball players don’t wear much facial hair. I’ve taken some ribbing from Marcus and others in the front office about my lumberjack beard. I came from Flagstaff, Arizona, up in the mountains at 7,000 feet of elevation. It’s almost a requirement in that mountain-town. But the cat-calls got me thinking, of nearly 200 ballplayers, I don’t really have a rival beard. There are some goat-tee’s, a sideburn or two, but nobody wearing a couple months worth of face-warmer. The only thing I think is that ballplayers, by nature, are very particular and thus crack out their razors often. It can’t be because there are a lot of babyfaces, because the average age in the league is in the mid-20’s.
I attended a couple of games in San Luis and enjoyed your selection of music. I even heard a little Dylan. Very tasteful.
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