Lakewood BlueClaws Internship Turned A Non-Baseball Fan Into One
One of the BlueClaws Front Office summer interns discusses the impact of his position on his feelings towards baseball..
Growing up I played a different sport each season, Football in the fall and Hockey in the winter , both of which are fast, intense, and physical sports. When spring came around and it was time to play baseball, which to me was a very slow and non physical game, it was hard to keep interested. Therefore baseball didn’t last long in my rotation of sports, I quickly moved to playing lacrosse in the spring. Since little league was so boring to me, it turned me off from playing and watching baseball during my Grammar and high school years. Then when I got to college I started watching a little bit because of my roommates, but it was really only when the Red Sox vs. Yankees games. After 12 years of no real interest in baseball, I got the opportunity to be a summer intern here at the BlueClaws. When I told one of my friends I was going to intern with a minor league baseball team they laughed and thought I was joking. I made it clear to them that just because I was working for a baseball team that my feels about baseball would not change.
Boy was I wrong, after about a month of working for the team and walking around the stadium during games interacting with the fans it was hard not to enjoy it. When I was able to watch the games I even found my self actually getting into the games. I now am in a fantasy baseball league, and following this year’s playoffs. My teams are the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox not because I think they have good players but because growing up all my friends were Yankee fans so I would root for the teams they hated. All and all, I have changed my feelings and interest of baseball and have enjoyed going to games, although if there is a football or hockey game on TV they will always have priority of baseball, but now I might flip to the baseball game more often.
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