With the regular season starting in just a few days, it’s become extremely busy around the Goldeyes offices. And not just for the folks that sell tickets, create the promotions and make sure the doors will be open this coming Thursday when the Fish begin the 2008 Northern League season against the Kansas City T-Bones.

The players have certainly been doing their share – on and off the field – to make this one of the most successful seasons ever at Canwest Park.

On Thursday, Brent Metheny, Max Poulin, Fehlandt Lentini, Ryan Ariail, Brandon Kintzler and Dustin Pease got down to the Shaw television studios to tape the opening to this year’s 23-game series of Safeway Goldeyes Baseball on Shaw. The guys were movie professionals, too, diving all over the studio to give design genius Darin Morash plenty of material to work with.

Meanwhile, seven players have traveled around Winnipeg and southern Manitoba talking to school kids and having a blast. Kintzler, Metheny, Lentini and newcomers Ronald Bay, Jeff Beachum, Robert Ransom and Andrew Walker have been a part of the annual Winnipeg Goldeyes/Princess Auto Caravan.

The boys have been to Seven Oaks Middle School, Ecole Julie Riel, Ecole Arthur Meighen School in Portage la Prairie and they’ll head for Mitchell Middle School in Mitchell on Monday.

“Our visit to Seven Oaks was great,” said Goldeyes director of communications Jonathan
Green, the man who coordinates the school visits every year. “The kids were among the most polite and respectful I’ve seen since we started the caravan. Then again, I can honestly say the same thing about all the groups we’ve visited this year.

“The kids sat and listened and asked very intelligent questions. That tells me they were
listening to what the players had to say.”

Most of the youngsters visited by the caravan will pay a return visit to Canwest Park, many to the June 10 game against Fargo and others to the June 19 game against Gary. Both are weekday matinees beginning at noon.

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