Friday Emergency

Had to take coworker Darryl to the doctor Friday morning. He had taken his prescriptions incorrectly and was woozy, and his elbow was in pain. The doc in a box didn’t open til ten, so we wound up at my doctor, which is nearby. He didn’t take his cell. Meanwhile back at the office, his wife was called, and she got all worried. Then Sue went out driving around trying to find us, without success. This with coworker Renee taking the day off, salesman Randy traveling, the temp gone, and Damon tied up in a meeting. This left new guy Matt running the show by himself. Darryl’s wife showed up here not long after we got back. Darryl should be ok.

Finished three Sports Illustrateds while at the doctor’s office…including the Pistol Pete article. Learned that Ditka played HS basketball on one of Press’ first squads. I’ve been reading / subscribing to SI since the early 80’s. Read them at Tech, then when I got out I treated myself with a subscription. Kept all the issues, with perhaps only one or two missing. Still hate the fact that when Maddux made his one cover, Southeastern readers got an alternate cover…Bama’s football coach, as I recall.

Nice of LaRoche to be so candid. True fans will understand his comments, though the very spoiled fans he spoke of probably won’t.

No practice last Thursday or Friday. Will’s travel team is probably going to drive me nuts. Found out today there’s a tourney Spring Break weekend…that Friday we’ll have small group (Intimate Encounters, we’re not supposed to miss) and a rehearsal dinner, Saturday Ceil and I have separate meetings in Woodstock, and our neighbor’s wedding, which all three kids are in.

Sounds like I’m stressed out and venting. I would say I’m not, but perhaps I am.

Saturday Will practiced from 10:15 to noon with the travel team, from noon to 1:45 with our rec team, then practiced with the Colt team til after three…all on the same field. He was tired afterwards. Saturday the Shaw Park team wants him to play a DH…after he has 2 practices. He loves it, but he may tire as the season progresses. The higher-ups don’t want him to play games for the Colt team, and once the season starts he can’t play for Shaw Park. Saturday I went in his batbag…he had four bats in there, including a wood one.

Our Saturday practice went well. Even without the official assistant coach, we had four things going on at once, spread out on two fields…infielders taking grounders, outfielders shagging flies, someone hitting in the cage, and someone pitching off the mound. Everyone got two rounds of infield, outfield, and BP. They all need lots of repetitions. One of Will’s teammates went to the Braves Fanfest. They got there early, waited in line to get in, then waited over 2-1/2 hours to get Francoeur’s autograph.

Turned on Tech vs. NC State and they were down big. Can’t believe they came back. The GT team dentist confirmed my suspicion why GT no longer has names on the backs of jerseys.