Centurion Anesthesia took the New Jersey team of CRNAs and Anesthesiologists to Yankee Stadium. Trading monitors and minute-by-minute work for peanuts and a ballgame felt like a luxury. Everyone showed up ready to have fun, and the conversations carried as much energy as the crowd.
This wasn’t a corporate outing with speeches and icebreakers. It was colleagues catching up, laughing at inside jokes from the OR, and arguing over which snack stand was worth it. Those details matter more than they look on paper.
We filled a few rows, mixing people who don’t always cross paths during the week. It was easy to see how quickly the usual walls fall when the setting changes. A pager can’t interrupt a story about who still owns an old Yankees jersey.
Teamwork isn’t built by checklists. It comes from knowing the person next to you, and that happens when you see them outside of scrubs and schedules. The ballpark gave us exactly that.
By the ninth inning, the Yankees had it sealed. The game was good, but the real win was our team off the clock, connected and sharp in a different way.
