He rarely sits. Next on the agenda is a short walk through the park - the intense Lane's down time, in a way. With his trusty palm-sized message recorder, he listens to all the notes he's made from the night before about ways to improve the Whitecaps experience, both in appearance and in service. If not, just ten minutes or so of direct sunlight, even early in the morning, can burn the grass underneath. Once it's been removed, rolled up and put away down the third base line, the tarp team members who made it in have about an hour or so to kill before they really have to be at work.
Baseball can be a dirty business.
Over the course of the day, Kolehouse will clean all the team's laundry as well as ballpark necessities - towels for ushers, mascot uniforms, you name it. He's also got to prepare the visiting team's clubhouse, stock the fridge in both locker rooms and take care of various other tasks as wide-ranging as getting torn uniforms repaired and picking up the new player from the airport. After all, he's been around the ballpark since the team moved here in 1994. Staff members from concessions, souvenirs, group sales, picnics and operations will discuss how many fans are expected for tonight's game and how many gameday employees need to be called in for work. The two top guns at Staffing, Inc., the company that provides the gameday employees, now know who they're going to need for tonight.