“One year ago today, I was in Woodbridge, Va., playing high A-ball for Potomac,” Storen said, sitting in the dugout before Wednesday’s victory. “Our (food) per diem was $20 a day, so a lot of eating at Waffle House, Burger King, Hooters, those were the go-to spots. Then later, I was in Double-A (at Harrisburg, Pa.), I went to Target and bought one of those portable pool rafts to sleep on, on the bus. It was like a cheap mattress.”
And now?
“Now, per diem is around a hundred a day. Everything changes. No more sleeping on a pool raft in a bus. Now it’s Westins and Ritz-Carltons. I remember the day I got called up, I flew from Providence (he’d played at Pawtucket) to St. Louis, I got to the hotel and they gave me my room, I was like, ‘Wait, I don’t have a roommate?’ Then I got to the room, there was candy in the bowls and stuff. I felt like the kid in ‘Home Alone.’
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