I played basketball in middle school and baseball in high school. Sure, I played baseball in middle school too, but this memory is about middle school basketball and high school baseball.
In middle school basketball, before each game, our coach would have us lie on the locker room floor, close our eyes, and listen to the hardest fucking gangster rap he could think of. The kind with raping and killing. We'd come to, outwardly calm, inwardly berserk. And the game would start.
In high school baseball, we would arrive at the field anywhere between 2:45 and 3:30. We would shit around in the dugout, eating sunflower seeds, comparing cleats. There was time on the field, sure, but we never knew exactly how that was decided. We were mildly surprised when the game started.
In middle school basketball, before each game, our coach would have us lie on the locker room floor, close our eyes, and listen to the hardest fucking gangster rap he could think of. The kind with raping and killing. We'd come to, outwardly calm, inwardly berserk. And the game would start.
In high school baseball, we would arrive at the field anywhere between 2:45 and 3:30. We would shit around in the dugout, eating sunflower seeds, comparing cleats. There was time on the field, sure, but we never knew exactly how that was decided. We were mildly surprised when the game started.
