It's Been a while...

It's been a while and I apologize. Not that there is an angry hoard of readers pounding down my door or something, but I want to make this something I am more consistent with.

One thing that I'm coming to realize is that it is very hard to walk the line of telling people what I see and not offending people. I can come off as harsh sometimes because of the way my analysis of situations is, and I really don't mean to at all. I want guys to do well and succeed, and making routine plays is something that they should be able to do at this level. Sometimes I forget the fact that most of the guys I'm broadcasting are younger than I am, and I know I made a ton of mistakes on "easy" plays when I was younger too. My goal this week is to find a better balance of encouraging yet critical. It's a tough line to have to walk, and I truthfully didn't even know I was doing it until pointed out to me yesterday. I can't hold the players on my team to the same standard I hold players like Asdrubal Cabrera and Grady Sizemore... Those guys are big leaguers and one or two guys from this team might get lucky enough to be in the show one day.

On another note, I'm still not getting enough sleep because I am so excited about work every day. It sounds lame, but it is nearly impossible for me to sleep at night because I'm so excited for the next day, and then when I finally do get to sleep I want it to go as fast as possible so I can get back to work. My challenge is going to be to take that excitement and translate it to the broadcasts in a positive way.

I started to sit in home run territory during batting practice on our last road trip. I feel like I can get a better read on how players are hitting from there because that's where I'm used to watching guys like Cabrera and Sizemore take BP from. I am easily distracted, so sometimes when I sit right behind home I can lose focus on what I'm actually there doing. I'm going to start mixing it up though so I can eventually be much better at it.

I have some interviews on the webpage now, here's the link to the Press Box page of the Lugnuts' website. Enjoy!

KL