When you are an intern for a summer collegiate ball club, sometimes you do good enough of a job that your duties expand, or in my case, you’re called on as Mr. Everyman. Due to extenuating circumstances which included, but are not limited to an injury bug that hit the communications interns, I ended up filling in at multiple spots.

All in all, I’ve missed blogging eight games, so this will serve as more of a catchup post split into four mini-segments. In that span, we’ve gone 4-4, cut one guy, added another, hit two home runs, and had our collective fanboy moments.

I’ll begin by saying that Brennan Morgan finally made the team, just in time for our 20th anniversary celebration. Although it is my policy to get photos of our new arrivals, I ultimately forgot, and, well, let’s just leave it at that.

GAME 5:

Anyway, the 20th anniversary celebration was very nice. There were a lot of local businesses setting up tents,

In case you’re wondering, that’s a llama in the bottom right picture. And no, I don’t particularly care for llamas.

There were also free hot dogs and sausages for those in attendance as well.

As per my tradition of messing with the visiting team’s BP, I put up another K-pop song. Here it is, for our reader’s viewing pleasure:

Fun fact: Since I’ve started song-trolling, we’ve gone 3-2, with all three of our wins coming when a girl group sings. Also of note, two of those wins came in a doubleheader.

Anyway, the Vermont game gave birth to another tradition, playing M.I.A’s Double Bubble Trouble (For those casual music fans, it’s the song in the Captain Morgan White Rum commercial) when an opposing pitcher is in a jam. I had debated with the idea, as part of me considered it to be a really bad form of taunting, but another part felt that it was justified, especially the part, Uh oh, You’re in trouble/ I step up in the game and I burst that bubble coincides with… well you know.

Suffice to say, it looked like another Danbury loss, but the team rallied to tie the game, With the bases loaded and nobody out, Zach Lavy came up and swatted a single to win the game, thus giving us our first game winning hit.

GAME 6:

For our first trip outside the state of Connecticut, we traveled to North Adams. And I’ll be honest, North Adams is a somewhat decent place. There’s culture there in the form of the Mass MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, for those who are unaware. Unfortunately, as I’m an intern and not a vacationer this summer, that excursion will have to wait.

I’ll say this about Joe Wolfe Field: It’s not that bad. It’s set up like an old-style park, its sound system, which is run through bullhorns, gives it an old-timey feel, there are ACTUAL RESTROOMS, brand new, to be precise, and the souvenir and food stands are set up very professionally.

The only complaint I had about the park was the press box was so cramped. Joining Maggie and I on the trip was Kyle, who is our regular journalist intern. We had literally settled in and had started when both of us were kicked out to accommodate the North Adams scorekeeper, journalist, etc. Now I get it, we’re the guests here, and the Steeplecats reserve the right to accommodate us to their means, but really, you could be a little nicer about it.

Anyway, butthurt aside, sitting inside the stadium with the common folk was interesting. North Adams does have a passionate fan base, and the team pulls out all the stops to accommodate them. The in-between inning contests are more frequent than what we have, and the mascot, while a disturbing love child between Snarf from ThunderCats and Garfield, is very energetic. The Steeplecats uniforms, on the other hand, are eh at best.

I’ll just skip ceremony and say that we lost. It wasn’t a great game.