He was next informed that AL stood for “Alberta.” The one in Canada. After three days in Dunedin, FL, he was assigned to a minor-league team in Medicine Hat, AL, which was OK with Erik as he’d never been to Alabama. Erik was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the twenty- ninth round.
#OLD PREDATORS CLEATS PROFESSIONAL#
The walking-around slides of college halls met the floors of professional baseball in the summer of 2002. Neither had he been in a lot of rooms- some tiled, some not, some lit, and some that definitely should not have been- of four walls, one drain, a dozen showerheads, and so much more that was not identifiable.
You don’t have any forethought for the future.”Īt the time, he’d never heard of shower shoes. He also did not foresee the career, the one that tested the half-life of a hunk of rubber. When he picked out those particular sandals on that afternoon in North Wales, Erik did not foresee them as career-long allies. They didn’t get lost and they didn’t give out and they hardly took up any space at all. That in time they weren’t fresh from the box or perfect or, heavens, fancy, that they were faded and could only be appreciated by the man atop them, that every attendant in every clubhouse across nearly two decades tried helpfully to replace them, only made them more special. The shoes (which, for Erik, predate Sarah by a few months) grew older and a bit harder in places, softer in others. “They may be the least disgusting shoes of all time,” Erik tried while walking them straight to the garage.
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