MT equipment crew gets the football team's equipment from FAU back to Murfreesboro and then on to Provo, Utah in a short week. Video

(09-26-2013 06:08 AM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  MT equipment crew gets the football team's equipment from FAU back to Murfreesboro and then on to Provo, Utah in a short week. Video

You're right. This is thankless job.
I worked for the Indians one spring training as a clubby. Getting those 25 or so guys from Winter Haven to Vero Beach for a 8 hour trip was a huge endeavor.
And heaven forbid we screw up.
I can't even imagine the complexities of sending football equipment plus all the extra stuff that you don't even think about across country twice in 7 days (even less if you consider that truck probably left for Utah yesterday.

(09-26-2013 07:20 AM)Tintin Wrote:  

(09-26-2013 06:08 AM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  MT equipment crew gets the football team's equipment from FAU back to Murfreesboro and then on to Provo, Utah in a short week. Video

You're right. This is thankless job.
I worked for the Indians one spring training as a clubby. Getting those 25 or so guys from Winter Haven to Vero Beach for a 8 hour trip was a huge endeavor.
And heaven forbid we screw up.
I can't even imagine the complexities of sending football equipment plus all the extra stuff that you don't even think about across country twice in 7 days (even less if you consider that truck probably left for Utah yesterday.

That's how I got started in baseball. I was the clubhouse manager for the Knoxville (now Tennessee) Smokies back in the day. Worked spring training with the Expos in West Palm, before I eventually ended up with the Mets player development and scouting. Out of baseball now, but it was both fun and a pain. The worst part was the hours.

Spring training was easily an 18 hour day (usually from 6 a.m. to midnight) and then my personal fav meeting the team bus at 3:00 a.m. in the morning when the team returned from a road trip and have to get everything ready that day for a home game later that night. Fun.

I developed some great relationships (including a few who still play like Chris Carpenter), but I don't miss it.

(09-26-2013 08:29 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(09-26-2013 07:20 AM)Tintin Wrote:  

(09-26-2013 06:08 AM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  MT equipment crew gets the football team's equipment from FAU back to Murfreesboro and then on to Provo, Utah in a short week. Video

You're right. This is thankless job.
I worked for the Indians one spring training as a clubby. Getting those 25 or so guys from Winter Haven to Vero Beach for a 8 hour trip was a huge endeavor.
And heaven forbid we screw up.
I can't even imagine the complexities of sending football equipment plus all the extra stuff that you don't even think about across country twice in 7 days (even less if you consider that truck probably left for Utah yesterday.

That's how I got started in baseball. I was the clubhouse manager for the Knoxville (now Tennessee) Smokies back in the day. Worked spring training with the Expos in West Palm, before I eventually ended up with the Mets player development and scouting. Out of baseball now, but it was both fun and a pain. The worst part was the hours.

Spring training was easily an 18 hour day (usually from 6 a.m. to midnight) and then my personal fav meeting the team bus at 3:00 a.m. in the morning when the team returned from a road trip and have to get everything ready that day for a home game later that night. Fun.

I developed some great relationships (including a few who still play like Chris Carpenter), but I don't miss it.

I know that was a pain while you were going through it, but those are experiences that all of us wish we had. Your grandchildren will sit and listen to you for hours as if you were an all-star. Kudos for sticking it out for a long time.

Chattanooga Lookouts, Nashville Vols, Knoxville Smokies, Birmingham Barons, Memphis Chicks.......long time memories of an old guy for a golden age of minor league baseball.

(09-26-2013 08:29 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  

(09-26-2013 07:20 AM)Tintin Wrote:  

(09-26-2013 06:08 AM)SpaceRaider Wrote:  MT equipment crew gets the football team's equipment from FAU back to Murfreesboro and then on to Provo, Utah in a short week. Video

You're right. This is thankless job.
I worked for the Indians one spring training as a clubby. Getting those 25 or so guys from Winter Haven to Vero Beach for a 8 hour trip was a huge endeavor.
And heaven forbid we screw up.
I can't even imagine the complexities of sending football equipment plus all the extra stuff that you don't even think about across country twice in 7 days (even less if you consider that truck probably left for Utah yesterday.

That's how I got started in baseball. I was the clubhouse manager for the Knoxville (now Tennessee) Smokies back in the day. Worked spring training with the Expos in West Palm, before I eventually ended up with the Mets player development and scouting. Out of baseball now, but it was both fun and a pain. The worst part was the hours.

Spring training was easily an 18 hour day (usually from 6 a.m. to midnight) and then my personal fav meeting the team bus at 3:00 a.m. in the morning when the team returned from a road trip and have to get everything ready that day for a home game later that night. Fun.

I developed some great relationships (including a few who still play like Chris Carpenter), but I don't miss it.

I worked 16 hours a day for 40.00 a day plus tips. The players might slip me a 20 every now and then, but I was not a member if the usual staff so I was pretty much invisible. I worked for a farm team in NC after spring training. I was so burned out on baseball in late August, I didn't watch the WS that year.
It was fun, but I wouldn't work in baseball for a living in any capacity except player.
Oh and Albert Belle was easily the nicest player in the clubhouse.
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