With a diminished Sports staff and an increased importance on web clicks, it’s not easy for a ball writer to take the allotted vacation days in one calendar year – not if the job is to be done correctly and job-saving clicks are to be amassed.
As such, my final five carryover vacation days from 2018 fell in the final week of January.
Most Texas Rangers officials were headed to the Dominican Republic for the annual winter program. Most players were packing up and getting ready to leave for spring training in Surprise, Ariz.
The thinking here was that team should be in cruise control heading out of the off-season and back to organized baseball.