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So it's occured to me that, in my future life as a teacher, I'm not going to be fulfilling one of my life goals of being disgustingly wealthy. The way I see it, I'm looking forward to a life of matinee movies and generic brand soda. Now, I've always been a problem solver, and so I've
(Technological Shout-Out: I accidentally closed this tab in the middle of typing and, following the requisite cursing, went back to the LJ page to start over when Firefox volunteered to revert to previous draft! Well done, Mozilla...)
begun considering future side employment, for evenings and weekends. Fortunately, there are some exciting prospects out there, and I think I've found the perfect solution.
I'm going to be the General Manager of a Baseball Club.
Now, I can anticipate the initial reaction: "Trevor, you don't know anything about baseball", but that's not true! For an entire semester this fall, I spent far too much time learning the intricacies of the craft from Playstation 2's MVP Baseball 2005. I may have started out as a novice who didn't know the difference between a breaking ball and a hit and run, but I quickly evolved into a pro who could easily hit 23 home runs a day. Granted, this was on rookie mode, but still!
But leading a front office requires more than a pitch perfect electronic swing and a killer outside curve. It takes management skills, an eye for up-and-coming talent and cunning negotiation skills. Needless to say, I have all of the above in abundance. But most importantly, being a major league general manager requires having a silly name. Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics, for example, or Wayne Krivsky of the Cincinatti Reds. And don't even get me STARTED on Dave Dombrowski with the Detroit Tigers. Now, I submit to you that Trevor Ian Mikaila Hancey belongs right in there with the Dave Dombrowski's of the world. I've heard the jokes; "Mikaila's a girl's name!" Maybe so, strictly speaking, but in the world of baseball general management, a middle name like Mikaila is all the currency I'll need.
Of course, I'll have to balance my front office duties with my teaching job, but I'm sure I'll be able to combine the two. Math class combing throught ERA statistics, anyone?
(Technological Shout-Out: I accidentally closed this tab in the middle of typing and, following the requisite cursing, went back to the LJ page to start over when Firefox volunteered to revert to previous draft! Well done, Mozilla...)
begun considering future side employment, for evenings and weekends. Fortunately, there are some exciting prospects out there, and I think I've found the perfect solution.
I'm going to be the General Manager of a Baseball Club.
Now, I can anticipate the initial reaction: "Trevor, you don't know anything about baseball", but that's not true! For an entire semester this fall, I spent far too much time learning the intricacies of the craft from Playstation 2's MVP Baseball 2005. I may have started out as a novice who didn't know the difference between a breaking ball and a hit and run, but I quickly evolved into a pro who could easily hit 23 home runs a day. Granted, this was on rookie mode, but still!
But leading a front office requires more than a pitch perfect electronic swing and a killer outside curve. It takes management skills, an eye for up-and-coming talent and cunning negotiation skills. Needless to say, I have all of the above in abundance. But most importantly, being a major league general manager requires having a silly name. Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics, for example, or Wayne Krivsky of the Cincinatti Reds. And don't even get me STARTED on Dave Dombrowski with the Detroit Tigers. Now, I submit to you that Trevor Ian Mikaila Hancey belongs right in there with the Dave Dombrowski's of the world. I've heard the jokes; "Mikaila's a girl's name!" Maybe so, strictly speaking, but in the world of baseball general management, a middle name like Mikaila is all the currency I'll need.
Of course, I'll have to balance my front office duties with my teaching job, but I'm sure I'll be able to combine the two. Math class combing throught ERA statistics, anyone?