Busy, draining two days
I am one of two reporters who will cover a local (as in Lorain) baseball team. The Lorain County Ironmen compete in the Prospect League, a league for college players with at least one year of NCAA eligibility left.
The owner of the team is a guy who played for the Indians in the early 1980s, Kevin Rhomberg. “Super” Joe Charboneau, who won the 1980 AL Rookie of the Year award, is the team’s hitting coach.
Opening day was Friday night. Len Barker, who threw a perfect game for the Indians in 1981, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. I got to speak with Barker and Charboneau during the evening, which was pretty cool.
I finished my story on the Indians affiliated with the team and left work around 11:30 p.m. After an hour of driving and an hour of winding down, I got to bed around 1:30.
Then I woke up at about 5 a.m. to drive to Columbus to cover the state track championships. I was down at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium for about 12 hours — 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
There was a ton of people in the stands (and all around the stadium) and a ton of other writers there, so it was an interesting experience.
Rain and thunder delayed action two separate times. Three of our local athletes won state titles and a dozen or so others placed. While it was an extremely long and draining two days, I felt very accomplished.
I crashed the next day, sleeping for more than ten hours. I think I’m fully recovered now, and I still work five more days until my next day off.
