Originally Posted by
CRinVA
You kno my son is now teh Ticket manager for teh Potomac Nationals (High A affiliate to teh Washington Nationals and we are starting to go to more and more games. I b ought tickets to ten games for me and my wife to get his some extra comission as tehy pay crappy, but he also gets us free tickets. And free parking vouchers and free food vouchers! Its a good deal and fun watching these kids play single A ball all hoping to be moved up and out. Lots of fun and for teh Minor Leagues I am a P-Nats fan now. Yesterday I couldngt go as I had another committment, but Doug Fister was doing a rehab start at P-Nats. My son came home with a signed ball - rpetty cool. Now we hear Harper is on DL and if he does a rehab start maybe he;ll get a Harper signed ball. That's be cool.
As a bit of trivia, guess who is one of the P-Nats bull pen pitchers. This guy about a year older thabn Harper named Harper! Bryce's oplder brother!
My son had to get up early today - like 5am. He has to be at teh park at 5:30 to give one of the players a ride to teh airport an hour from here. I asked hinm when he got back ehre was he going and Brett just said I didnt want to ask in case he was being demoted. The AA affiliate is close enough that he wouldnt have taken a plane! I said maybe it was a family emergency or something. So hes ticket manager, driver, tarp puller, and he occassinoally gets dressed up as Uncle Slam teh mascot for events. In fact when they show the Unclse Slam commercial on the scoreboard screen, its my son Brett i the suit. his m oment of fame and noone knows it ' him! He wore it one day ot an event and he got to throw out the first pitch with these two guys. One was a former Big Leaguer (spent most of his career int he minors, and know runs a baseball academy and does some one on one personal couaching) that went to the same HS as Brett and the other was his HS Varsity Baseball coach. They have no idea Brett was out there with them. Once in the suit you are not allowed to speak!