It has been a wild ride for the Carignan family this year and the hits just seem to keep on coming.
Gary Carignan, the manager of the Norwich American Legion baseball team, has been riding the emotional roller coaster so what happened this week with the Norwich program probably didn't phase him all that much.
Carignan learned, much to his surprise, that not only was he the manager of the program but also the coach as Don Murray, according to Carignan, just didn't show up the past two games against Jewett City and Waterford.
Carignan said Murray apparently disagreed with something that had been done but didn't specify what it was that caused Murray to apparently resign in the middle of the season with Norwich playing above the break-even mark.
Carignan just took the new assignment with a shrug as he has seen it all this year including losing his home to a fire. That situation is in the process of being remedied as the Carignan's are building a new home and recently received some great news as their son, Andrew, will shortly sign a contract with the Oakland A's.
"It's been a crazy year, an absolutely crazy year," Gary Carignan said. "You just take every day as it comes and you make the best of it and that's what we're going to do again here."
Norwich currently has a 7-6 record, they play a doubleheader Sunday in Waterford.