Throw 'er back!
Some of us get our '15 minutes', and we don't even know it.
The sweet little girl, who's sweet little dad took her to a sweet little Philly's game is getting all kinds of national attention because Daddy got a foul ball, and she sweetly threw the sweet ball back. Sweet. They were on the Today Show today, and all around the talk circuit, with all the hard pressing questions..."Why did you do that?!?!"...."because...". She's THREE! Why do they do anything?
I've been a baseball fan all my life. My Dad took me to the Red's games in Cincinnati, and I'll always remember them! I've been to Dodger Stadium, Coors Field, and recently Fenway Park. No matter which field, I've always hoped for that one foul ball...never mind a home run ball...and I'm still waitingl That Dad on TV finally got his wish. He got that ball. And he did what any respectable grown up should do, and that's not spill his beer. Well that, and he gave the ball to the kid. Any kid with the sad, deserving look and coal-blackened cheeks of 'Oliver' would do, but he happened to have his own with him. Bonus.
Then...his dream was gone. She chucked the ball back onto the field. Hey, you give a 3-year-old a ball, and she's going to throw it! As fathers, we try, and teach and train our chidren to the likes of Rocky in the Siberian snow drifts, to catch a damn ball...and throw it back. This man should be a major league coach with the arm on that kid. I toss a ball to Reagan, it will hit her in the eye, she'll laugh, then throw it forward with great speed...but the ball will hit the dog behind her somehow...it's a great mystery.
Some guys I pretend to not know would have rather thrown the kid back...so although his dream of that one foul ball disappeared like a Taylor Swift speech at a Kanye party (Kanye says he could've thrown it back better), he should be proud. Not only did he do the right thing and give his kid a hug and say 'that's ok'!, but he somehow saved his dog, her eye and overall 'awwwww' of a country.
The sweet little girl, who's sweet little dad took her to a sweet little Philly's game is getting all kinds of national attention because Daddy got a foul ball, and she sweetly threw the sweet ball back. Sweet. They were on the Today Show today, and all around the talk circuit, with all the hard pressing questions..."Why did you do that?!?!"...."because...". She's THREE! Why do they do anything?
I've been a baseball fan all my life. My Dad took me to the Red's games in Cincinnati, and I'll always remember them! I've been to Dodger Stadium, Coors Field, and recently Fenway Park. No matter which field, I've always hoped for that one foul ball...never mind a home run ball...and I'm still waitingl That Dad on TV finally got his wish. He got that ball. And he did what any respectable grown up should do, and that's not spill his beer. Well that, and he gave the ball to the kid. Any kid with the sad, deserving look and coal-blackened cheeks of 'Oliver' would do, but he happened to have his own with him. Bonus.
Then...his dream was gone. She chucked the ball back onto the field. Hey, you give a 3-year-old a ball, and she's going to throw it! As fathers, we try, and teach and train our chidren to the likes of Rocky in the Siberian snow drifts, to catch a damn ball...and throw it back. This man should be a major league coach with the arm on that kid. I toss a ball to Reagan, it will hit her in the eye, she'll laugh, then throw it forward with great speed...but the ball will hit the dog behind her somehow...it's a great mystery.
Some guys I pretend to not know would have rather thrown the kid back...so although his dream of that one foul ball disappeared like a Taylor Swift speech at a Kanye party (Kanye says he could've thrown it back better), he should be proud. Not only did he do the right thing and give his kid a hug and say 'that's ok'!, but he somehow saved his dog, her eye and overall 'awwwww' of a country.
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