A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Radio Booth At The Baseball Park

Last week, I was fortunate enough to take a tour of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball park with some of my colleagues from work. The tour route is everywhere you can't go without being a Phillies employee or being very wealthy. They take you down to the field, the dugouts, the executive suites, etc. All of which is very interesting.

The part of the tour that caught most of my attention was a spot on the wall in between the press box and the radio booth. On the wall were two posters with a list of rules. One of them I don't recall what it said. But the other was a list of rules regarding pacing of the game.

This was fascinating stuff, like how the pitcher has 12 seconds to throw the ball once the batter is in the batter's box. Who knew? Not me.

Thus I was engrossed. Until...

Two employees came up to see what had caught my attention. As soon as they noticed it was a list of rules, one of them uttered, "Leave it to the HR guy to be attracted to a list of rules."

"I can't help it," I replied and all three of us busted out laughing.

I repeated the story to a couple of other employees later at lunch. Again, much laughter.

I'm glad that my employees can joke with me about being the guy who's attracted to rules.

I'm also glad there is no rule that says, "I can't laugh along with them."