Jerseyson started out in short season A ball so he really just got started (mid June), I can’t imagine what the boys that have been grinding it out since April feel like.
After playing their first couple of games at home his team went on an 8 day road trip. On the last day of the trip he was promoted to the full season A team. This was great however the team he was promoted to had just starting a road trip as well so he had to meet them on the road. Packing his 4 days of dirty clothes he left at 7am and flew out to meet his team for another 8 days on the road. As excited as he was, he wasn’t ready for the extended road trip. When we asked him if what he would do about clothes he said he would do laundry however I have a feeling that more than likely Walmart saw his credit card to pick up fresh skivvies and his other clothes got the sniff test until he came off the road.
All told in his first 4 weeks in the minors he was on the road for 3 of them. He said sleeping on the bus is very difficult, usually sleep comes in one or two hour increments until you wake up try to readjust and go back to sleep. When he said his back was sore no one was surprised. After a week of sleeping in his bed it took care of the backache. Like everyone else on the team he wouldn’t trade it for anything, bus rides or not.