May 5th, 2013

Today was the last day of the current home stand. The team will be on the road for the next ten days. I have begun to pick things up pretty well and we are getting good at getting things done quickly. So far it has been a lot of dragging the field, raking edges, watering, and patching. Patching is the worst thing we do. We fill in the holes dug out by the players at home plate and the mound with new clay and we hit the new clay with a tamp until it is level and the hole is gone. Tomorrow will be my first non-game day. We will leave by four o' clock because there is a high school double header that only one person has to work at. Today I also got all of the signatures of everyone in the organization and I broke my first tamp. We have already broken two ta