History is over, and a respectable "C" grade is now in my back pocket. I hate the tacky term "C's get degrees" however I have made a living off them the past four and half years, and I am not ashamed to say that. I suppose a "C" could often by looked at as a slackers way of getting by, and believe you me, I have been accused once or twice in my life of "slacking." However I have also been known to have to work my tail off to get respectable grades, so a round of applause for myself for getting through summer history.
Enough patting my own back for getting a slacker grade, lets roll back to my initial post that mentioned three Siena baseball players who all had killer seasons, two of whom were draft hopefulls (keyword hopefull) in last weeks MLB draft.
This was my first experience with the MLB draft and may be my last. Here are some things that I gathered.
1. If you're a stud you go in the top ten rounds.
2. If you may one day turn into a stud you go in rounds 10-20.
3. If a scout saw you and doesn't think you're consistently stud, however saw you once on a day where you were a stud for one play, you could go anywhere from round 21 to 35.
4. Rounds 35-50 was the most pathetic experience I've ever had in my life, well one of them. If you are related to a ex major leaguer, current manager, scout, or Billy the ball boy, a team will draft you due to what grownups refer to as life politics.
5. Numbers in a mid major conference do not matter. I have already stated the numbers of my friends so I won't bore you with those again, however Kevin Quaranto batted over 400 with 14 homeruns as a 6"3 first baseman. Q has to do two things before next years draft to have a shot.... A. Marry somebody of importance's daughter... I don't care who it is... it could be Terry Francona's cousin or Madona's daughter, you marry one of them and have a jackshit year, if you have a hat and a bat you're going in rounds 35-50. OR B. Bat 500 and hit two homeruns to fall into the "may one day be a stud" category... Good luck mid major baseball players... Either know someone or put together one hell of a year.
All was not lost on the Siena baseball front. Undrafted utility man Anthony Giansanti was signed yesterday by the Chicago Cubs and ships off to Boise Idaho tommrow. Even if I had the financial means to go to potato country (I obviously do not) to catch a game this summer I don't think I'd be allowed. Once upon a time I almost started a bench clearing brawl at Boise State. Two seperate incidents in which our team ended up ultimately benefitting from. When the game ended I was booed off the floor, not allowed to shake hands, and escorted by security to the locker room. My life was threatened twice by two angry red face red necks on my way back to the safety of the Boise State visiting locker room. It's okay though, I never set out to make friends in Boise Idaho anyways... However, a few would be nice in Albany.
A new class starts tommrow, and I'm happy to say this one has nothing to do with American History. Instead I will be watching British directed films with my good pal Conner Fenlon three nights a week. Other than that I will be closing in on my search for a living situation starting in August. My lease in Hennepin goes from zero dollars to forty dollars a week around that time, so I figure the sooner the deals done the better. How is this for a deal?: The hot spot I'm looking at offers a wopping 1$ a year fee for unlimited use of their pool facilities... Now that is something I can pay for in change. Looks like I will be doing alot of swimming come August.
Something to check out.... Sunday,July 11th The College Home Run Derby will air on CBS. Siena's very own Dan Paolini (26 HR's), has been selected as one of eight sluggers to compete in the derby. I'm not a historian, but I can't recall a time other than Siena Basketball, when Siena has been featured on CBS... Pretty big time...
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