Being one of our baseball managers seems like an easy job on paper. You show up for games 45 minutes before gametime for home games and 15 minutes before the bus leaves for road games. You might need to do a couple of little things like set up the coach/catcher communication or grab the water coolers. But most of the time you just have to keep Game Changer on the Ipad during games and update the pitch count chart before the next day. Of course, as Daizy and Jasmin can attest to, it just isn’t that easy. In the 2 years that they have been our varsity managers, Daizy and Jasmin have done their job(and often times way beyond their job) flawlessly. Great managers such as these 2 are easy to take for granted by a team and coaching staff. We never have to worry about them showing up on time or any of these things being taken care of. In fact, you can almost forget that they are even in the dugout sometimes. However, being a baseball manager comes with some usually unwanted “extended hours”. For instance, last year when we had rain all week of our Western Boone series. We finally ended up deciding to play a Thursday night double-header at their place…and of course both games went into extra innings. It was cold, wet, and they even had an AP exam early the next morning(we got home well after midnight). But you never heard either one of them complain(ok, they may have brought it up a couple of times since then). On another occasion, we moved our Friday-night home game with Kokomo to Municipal Stadium to take advantage of the turf field. Of course we ended up with multiple lightning delays, constant wind, and a light drizzle the whole time. But once again, they were awesome and just watched as the baseball players acted like baseball players act during these ridiculous situations. Daizy and Jasmin will be missed by the baseball program more than they could possibly know. They will certainly be missed by me, as they have made every attempt to fulfill the number 1 job for Hot Dog baseball managers- try not to let Coach Dudley make a fool of himself(this could of course be making sure he doesn’t lose his phone, wallet, or keys during a game…or making sure he doesn’t run out to coach third base with the pitch-com headset looking like a telemarketer…or any number of other things that he might do in the heat of competition). In addition to rule number 1, they have followed rule #2 as well as anyone could ask- keep everything that happens in the dugout IN THE DUGOUT.. I know that part of what has made Daizy and Jasmin awesome managers is that they come from a big baseball family so they have been around the sport their whole lives. But the real thing that has made them awesome managers is that they are just awesome young women.