Grant Miller, formerly general manager in charge of player development with the Santa Clara Wood Ducks of California amateur baseball and the Spring Valley Hawks, serves as the general manager and advanced scout for the Fish. An avid traveler, Grant is constantly searching for new talent.
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How Big is Your Garage Sale Really?
3:40 P.M. - November 11, 2010
Hi Fighting Fish friends and family!
Welcome to the new Grant’s Travels blog! In our team’s past three seasons, this time of year you’d find me in some far flung destination like Abu Dhabi working hard to recruit talent for next summer’s Fighting Fish season. However, with the success of last summer and most of our roster planning on returning, there is less urgency for recruiting. So instead this off season, I’ll be keeping my feet and my thoughts closer to home.
One positive roster note: we are proud to say that we’re building a winning tradition and reputation in River Falls, and it admittedly has me almost out of a recruiting job. Sometimes ballplayers find us, such as a certain talented Bigfoot that will join the Fish in 2011.
The time off has given me plenty of time to observe and reflect upon the world around me, so that’s mostly what you’ll find in Grant’s Travels this offseason: the thoughts and perspective of a world-traveling truth-seeker, if I can be so bold to self-apply that description.
I am a truth-seeker, and not a truth-teller. You’ll always find more questions here than answers but I invite you to email me your thoughts at contactus@fishbaseball.org and we'll post them here.
I promise to keep my blogs briefs, and in that spirit I’ll end here, just leaving you with this to think about:
What makes so many garage sales “Huge?” At what point does a sale go from “Sale” to “Huge Sale?” Shouldn’t we have be some kind of classification system?
How many things are more disappointing than showing up to a Huge Sale only to find a shoebox of children’s books (not the Hardy Boys, the generic Dardy Boys and Dancy Grew mysteries), some baby clothes (Gerber-stained), and a hedge trimmer?
And if they don’t have a hedge, why do they have that hedge trimmer anyway?