As most athletes will tell you, there's something to be said for being home during a sports season. Your routine is not broken as much. You get to sleep in your own bed and, more importantly, spend quality time with your family. In my case, my family is my wife, Cara, who is pregnant with our first child. As we look to Joliet, we're not exactly going into that race with a head of steam.
Truth be told, it's the opposite.
In Topeka last weekend, we went out in the first round Sunday. That was not part of the grand plan. We had high expectations that we would begin to turn our season around out there. But, in my mind, we sort of took a step back, which was disappointing to all of us. Given how we performed in Topeka, we decided to stay at Heartland Park and test for a couple of days.