CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mark Firkins pulled out the souvenir poster and start to circle dates.
He looked at his two sons and asked: "Guys, what do you think of this kind of schedule? What if we were able to make this many games this year? Can you do this much traveling? Is this too much?"
Of course it wasn't.
Firkins joined capacity crowds at Silver Stadium when he was young and Baltimore Orioles prospects Eddie Murray, Dennis Martinez, Mike Flanagan, Wayne Garland and Cal Ripken Jr. pass through Triple-A Rochester in the late '70s and early '80s.