Introduction to #Boomerica: 105

General Office Duties

Don't you just love it when you see that term? Basically it's job application speak for "anything else that pops up." I'm not complaining about this term, I think it's a good term. But it also applies to my entire summer.

Thus far (Wow, you know you're getting old when you say "thus," I'm sure I'll offset it with something immature later) I've done a little bit of everything with the Schaumburg Boomers. While the bulk of my responsibilities revolve around assisting the media relations director with his work, live tweeting games, writing game reports and press releases for the website, and running paperwork to coaches and broadcasters before the games, I have encountered many other duties (haha... there it is).

Most gamedays my schedule is pretty set. Get to work, start assembling the daily program insert with stats, standings, and rosters. Then it's on to the stat packs, 30+ pages of everything you could want to know about the Boomers, their opponent, and the rest of the Frontier League. Next, let's make sure I have the most up-to-date Boomers roster as well as that day's foe. Then, hopefully, the broadcasters have their daily reports done, and that the coaches have their starting lineups ready. After distributing these materials to the proper people, then it's on to game prep in the pressbox, including cleaning it and making sure the food is there and ready for a hungry staff to eat. During games, I live tweet and take notes, getting ready to write the story.

But non-gamedays are different stories. I don't have those set duties and schedule, so sometimes my day is a mix of different tasks. Like the other day, when I took a bride-to-be and her parents around the park and showed her how she could get married at Boomers Stadium. And then I tidied up the website and made sure the promotions page looked good, as well as answering phone like everyone does. Sometimes I've cleaned bathrooms, tested inflatables, rolled t-shirts, and a bevy of other tasks.

My favorite was probably working on the team's media guide, which is allllllllmost done, as it gave me a chance to work with my secret love, InDesign.

And that's just a taste of what I do on a daily basis.