Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

One of the things Florida summers are known for besides the sweltering heat are the rainy days that seem to come out of nowhere. I’m not kidding here, it will be blue skies and no sign of weather and then, like Zeus was sitting in the sky, lightning will just start coming down. Being a weatherman in Florida has to be the easiest job ever. All you need to do is say, “It’s going to be really really hot and humid today with a 30-50 percent chance of thunder showers.” If you don’t believe this, look at the weather for Lakeland this upcoming week. After being in a drought since the new year, the rain has started to make its appearance. None more evident than in our last two games where we got rained out in the second inning and the very next day did not even take the field. There is, however, a more interesting story that goes behind the first one. I was the starter of that game and after getting the first four outs of the game, I saw some lightning, it started to rain heavily, and two baseballs sailed over the fence in two pitches. Yep, back to back jacks. Fortunately for me, about the only good thing that came out of that game was that it was cancelled before it was official so none of the statistics count. The slate was wiped clean and I got a get out of jail free card on a bad inning. If life always worked this way and people just got to start over like nothing ever happened I think the world would be a better place because you would learn from your mistakes without even making them. Baseball is a funny game and sometimes there are little rewards hidden in the worst of situations. Well I guess for those two hitters, there really isn’t much reward, but hey, this story is about the positives in life.