Jake Simon was at the gym lifting weights, trying his best to keep his mind off the Major League Baseball’s amateur draft.
Austin Orewiler was delivering pizzas, though not exactly for the same reason. He was helping out his high school coach.
“Well my mom thought it started at noon,” Orewiler said of the draft’s third day, which began at 11 a.m. Wedneday “So she sent me to pick up pizzas at 11:30 a.m.”
But soon enough, the two former Galveston Ball pitchers received the news they’ve been waiting for since childhood.
“I got the call about 11:35 a.