In the words of Heidi Klum from Project runway, “One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out”. Unfortunately, this couldn’t be more true in the world of baseball.
With baseball comes the daily struggle of not knowing what will come next. We have days where everything is fine and we feel like we had finally gotten into a routine and the next day he’s traded to another team and we have to pick up our lives and move yet again. You never know when you’re going to get that phone call or text that says “ I’ve been released” or “start packing”. It’s really hard for him, of course, he’s the one going through it. But it’s really hard for the baseball players wives and girlfriends too. We like and need some amount of stability just like the next person.
While I love being kept on my toes, it seems that baseball has kept me on them so much to where if someone asks how Alec is doing and what point of him career he is in, I’m not even sure where to begin. I can’t give these people a straight answer because I’m not sure I even fully understand the whole sport that is baseball myself. People ask about Alec and our life all of the time, because they know it is not necessarily “normal”. People might ask “where is Alec now?” And that is the easiest question because I usually just give them a location and leave it at that. The thing is, I can tell someone where he is one day, or even one afternoon, and by that night our whole lives could be different. These guys are like pieces on a chest board. and it becomes difficult to explain it to people who you basically don’t see or talk to everyday.
Story Time:
Alec and I began dating while he was with the Phillies. He was in Spring Training in Clearwater when we met and hit it off and had been dating for a month when I got my first (of now many) “calls”. Alec called me and said “Im with the Orioles now”. Mind you, at this point I still had no stinking clue what all this baseball stuff meant so I had so many questions for him and could not wrap my head around the fact that he is just like that not with the Phillies anymore. Just like that the friendships he had made (he was really close with these guys) and the things he had accomplished with this team are just like, non existent. Now he has to make new friends and earn his respect from his new team. After much explanation, I was somewhat able to understand it.
Alec and I both now know that this just goes along with the game. Some guys are so lucky and stick with one or two teams throughout their whole career. Other guys.. cough, cough.. Alec, will be with 5 teams before they are 28 (he doesn’t turn 28 until October so I wouldn’t be surprised if that number goes up by one or two before then). With all of this being said, we are so thankful for these teams and the opportunities that each one has presented the both of us and it is just all a part of Getting Married to the Game!
Getting Married to the Game 