The other day I had a pretty great day at work that I definitely won’t ever forget. The Rays held voluntary workouts for their players, which were open to the media. And now that I’m in the position I am, I had the opportunity to attend these and get to witness the players up close for the first time.
I do have some prior experience covering baseball teams since I did so for the UF team this past season, so I kind of knew the drill and how the media availability was going to work. But obviously I knew this was going to be a little different since it’s the major leagues and there were a few more media personnel in attendance than was normally there at the college level. Plus, IT’S THE MAJOR LEAGUES, so there’s automatically an added significance to everything that goes on.
After waiting on the field for a little while, eight players eventually made their way out of the dugout to get their workouts started. They stretched for some time, threw with each other in order to warm up, and then since most of them were pitchers, they threw bullpens in preparation for Spring Training.
Once they finished up doing their thing, a handful of the guys stopped to talk to us in the media. And I got to be a part of two different interviews. It was a super cool experience that I’m looking forward to getting to do a lot more of as the season continues!
Once we were all done collecting the interviews, I then got to write a blog about what we learned from those conversations…and it was my first one of those for the organization, too. So, it’s safe to say I thoroughly enjoyed work that day, and it only made me more excited for what’s to come in the future!
And just to add as a side note, one of my coworkers brought their dog into the office, and it was the cutest thing ever, so getting to play with the dog for a while definitely didn’t hurt!
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