Playing for the Peach

I have arrived in Macon, Georgia where I will be playing low level minor league baseball for the rest of the foreseeable summer. It isn't where I wanted to be and it certainly isn't where I thought I'd be, but I am genuinely excited to be here. Actually, I might be the only person in the Peach State League who is genuinely happy to be playing here.

I went through spring training with the Laredo Broncos of the United League but on the last day I was released because they decided they wanted a player that has experience and that just happens to be the one thing I am lacking. And so you're caught in some catch-22. You can't get experience without playing and you can't play without experience...quite the predicament. Thus, I came to Macon, Georgia to play for the Albany Quails. You read that correctly. I am playing for a team in Albany, Georgia even though we never play a game in Albany. We even have an owner in Albany who may never even see a game. There are 4 teams in the league and all of them play their games here in Macon. However, the Macon team is always the home team. They get their own clubhouse, they're the only ones who get publicized, and it generally just seems a little unfair the way the other 3 teams are treated in comparison. We're all staying at Wesleyan College...an all girls school. So an extremely conservative all-girls Christian school is allowing 100 baseball players to stay at their dorms. Oh, and it's a dry campus. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm playing in a first-year league that is having some serious organization problems; staying in an all-girls dorm with 100 other guys; playing for a city I've never even been to; and at practice the night before our first game we had a total of 6 players.

To say the very least, this could be interesting...