Long day away from the office and home yesterday and not much time to focus on baseball or blogging, so forgive my slacking this morning.
Stan Grossfeld at Boston.com has totally indulged my love of all things trivial and composed a photo montage of the rituals past and present players have.
And so, finally, Mike Timlin’s rituals are in print so folks who go to the games with me won’t think I’m making things up! 🙂
For years I’ve been telling people that "No, Timlin isn’t coming into the game yet, he always stretches in the fifth and plays catch in the seventh". Hey, I sit in the bleachers a lot, you start to notice the trends of one of your favorite players!
And now I have proof:
‘‘Baseball’s always been strong on routines,’’ says Mike Timlin. ‘‘It makes players comfortable. It’s more a timing thing; I stretch during the first inning, I do visualization in the second and third. Stretch my arm and legs in the fifth. I play catch in the seventh and I’m ready to go in the eighth. In the bullpen I say a prayer after the last pitch and ask God for strength. Then I always run to the hill.’’
I also seem to be in the minority here, but I enjoy seeing/hearing players reference their faith, regardless of what it is. I don’t share the same religion as Timlin, but I respect anyone who can be so open and sure about their beliefs.
On a side-note, I bought tickets to the Futures at Fenway series on August 11th. I went to the first one last year with my friend Kelly and we really had a great time. I pretty much promised myself I was going to try and go every year. $20 to sit in $85 seats, watch TWO baseball games and see some pretty amazing players…well, it’s certainly worth much more than the price of admission.
The sun seems to be shining and I’m looking forward to a productive, but eventless, day.
Four more days until baseball means something (I never thought I’d be looking forward to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan!) and five more days until the Sox take the field in earnest!
Have a great day, folks!
(Photo lifted from Yahoo! Sports)
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