Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

With yesterday’s win, the West Oahu Canefires have clinched a spot in Sunday’s championship game. That’s right, we came in first in the West division out of two teams. So this means that I have now clinched my second playoff spot for the season, and I must say I don’t think many ballplayers can say that. Who we play is yet to be determined, but either way I am excited to try and win a championship and possibly get some kind of gift, which has been rumored to be anything from a MP3 player to a Macbook computer. Who knows, I don’t run the gossip mill, I just listen in and report it. Now, to what I really meant to talk about, looking past our field. And no, this is not some metaphor for life beyond the game, it’s actually a literal meaning in that if you stand on the top bleacher of Hans L’Orange field, you can see Pearl Harbor. I was fortunate enough this past off day to take a tour of this historical site and really was blown away by not only the historical significance of the site itself but by what it must have been like that morning in 1941. I couldn’t even imagine what that must have been like, and to be standing there in the same spot as probably so many were that day was truly and eerie feeling. I’m sure there were people out playing baseball in the same spot we play everyday when the planes came in. I guess you can say that it’s kind of cool that we play in the shadow of Pearl Harbor, but at the same time, when I was there I felt like what I do is far more insignificant than what all the men and women in the services do for us everyday. Oh, and for anyone who may visit Pearl Harbor in the future, I recommend getting the audio tour, it saves a lot of reading you would have to do to understand the same things.