We have seven games under our belt and seven W’s on the scorecard. No one else in the Southern Conference can say that at the moment but I have watched enough baseball to know that everything can change in one weekend. We had so much preseason hype that I was getting worried about the start. I’m not saying we don’t deserve it or that I don’t believe it I’m just saying I was ready for those boys to get the show on the road. When Cole was named preseason Southern Conference Player of the Year I was so proud I thought I was going to explode and the day after the paper published I didn’t want to talk about it anymore. It was time to start proving what we could do and you know what they say in golf it’s not about how you arrive but how you finish that matters and I just knew that was exactly what my son was thinking. Then we started and we came out of the shoot strong. I am seeing folks at the ball field that I haven’t seen in years. We have sold more season tickets than ever. Our right field enthusiasm is at an all time high on Friday nights. So someone else is believing the preseason hype and I’m glad!
I’m going to guess if you read this blog then you have an interest in CofC baseball so there are a couple of things I want to share with you. I had a conversation with a player this past weekend who told me he had never used his family passes because his family isn’t able to come (I’ve watched him for three years now). They live pretty far away and the travel is tough and expensive. I told him we were his family and that we were extremely proud of him, truthfully my heart ached a little after that conversation. Then I watched Ryan Daniels bat and remembered our first game last season when he broke his leg during the pregame warm ups. He’s back out there with a ruptured disc in his back and he hit a double. Who does that? Who has that much desire and drive to play through the pain just for an at bat? I want what he has! I want to love my job so much that there is nothing that will stand in my way, physically or mentally. I want to know what it feels like to be our right fielder, who, some might say was born with a 
handicap but who many believe will be an All American if he stays on the path he is on right now. I want to know how Jamie Holler and Rob Kral played the last season with major injuries, had surgeries and are back out there when most people would still be in rehab. You can’t teach this; this heart, this desire, this love of the game. This is the stuff of greatness. They don’t do this because of who is watching or because someone tells them to, they do it because it IS who they are. It’s in their DNA. They are winners and they won’t let anything stand in the way of that. So I’ll be out there again this season at every game because I believe in them. I’ll be their family, I’ll be their greatest fan, and they will all be my heroes.
handicap but who many believe will be an All American if he stays on the path he is on right now. I want to know how Jamie Holler and Rob Kral played the last season with major injuries, had surgeries and are back out there when most people would still be in rehab. You can’t teach this; this heart, this desire, this love of the game. This is the stuff of greatness. They don’t do this because of who is watching or because someone tells them to, they do it because it IS who they are. It’s in their DNA. They are winners and they won’t let anything stand in the way of that. So I’ll be out there again this season at every game because I believe in them. I’ll be their family, I’ll be their greatest fan, and they will all be my heroes. 
We go to Jacksonville tomorrow then we have Coastal on Wednesday. This is a big week. Come out to Patriots Point and meet my heroes.
See you at the field,
Trudy
