Consider, the alternatives - featuring the un-feted (part 2 of "trials and tributes") 

Alternates, for short... who, despite the best campaigns, trials, and tribulations, come up just a little bit...you'll find them in every professional field, while not actually on the field, not just yet....

Consideration... as in worth yours, a second look, that is. Stand-outs, in their own right...right? The ones that are left, to "hold down the fort" until the starters, who made it to "the big dance" are left to fill their own dance card, with other alternates, I would guess...

Sent packing... ones that, like their teammates, taught by their coaches, how to fit the most in duffle bag, have the double challenge, of taking their warm-ups and game jerseys in and back out of the bag, keeping them both 'game ready' ("wash, rinse, repeat...") while filling in for their absent teammates...

Staying on track... while waiting off. As in tracking your team, planning alternate routes, just in case, they get held up...in traffic, or whatever...😉

Adding value... the added value of being an alternate, is learning to live vicariously, learn from others' mistakes. In an effort to avoid adding to the experience of us subs -- the old 'adding insult to injury' routine...

Watching and waiting... the dynamic duo of us alternates whose favorite words...no, not the over-valued "worth the wait" are the ones we actually share in common, that are a foreshadowing of something BIG might be coming our way..."Go warm up"  

Coming events, include "Here's the problem..." 




 

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