Pants trauma

Allentown, PA is not a very hot place when The Cadets live there for a month spanning May and June. In fact, its downright cold. One day during spring training, it went from temporate to downright cold in under 15 minutes. Marc Sylvester was on the scaffolding, and he told everyone to “put on long pants.” I hadn’t brought any long pants with me to the field…they were in my dorm room. Uh oh. Maybe Marc wouldn’t notice.

After rehearsal, Marc said “Everyone without pants on go to the middle of the field.” There were two of us- myself and Nick from the bass line.

“Look at these model Cadets. These people are what you are choosing to accept as Cadets right now. Fix it.”

Oh my god I wanted to die. No one said anything to me about it. To this day I have pants with me 24 hours a day on tour. Even in Texas when its 120 degrees.