2007 Sports portfolio - First

Kevin Benedict

Singles

      

On the road again

On April 26, 2007, Great Lakes Loons right fielder Scott Van Slyke left with his teammates for an extended road trip to Iowa. “You got your friends back home or people that don’t really know very well, (they’re) like “Oh, you’re a professional baseball player, that must be so fun” … the games are great. You know, when you win it’s great, when you play well it’s great, but the road trips stink, the hotels aren’t usually this nice … Sometimes it just gets miserable and I think everybody thinks it’s all, you know, fun and games, and glory, and it’s not. … You get dirty and you bleed and you lose and get your feelins’ hurt and you get hurt and there’s just a bunch of other things that happen that I just don’t think other people know about.”