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went to the tribe game last nite with wife, son, and his buddy.
got there early for BP and we were in right field trying to snag some homers and bouncers. A hot one came in right by the boys and I couldn't reach it without knocking them down (like most of the men do anyways)....so it goes by them and richochets off of a seat and niks my boys ear! LOL. He was fine and I got the ball.
We stay a bit longer and I snag another and give it to the boys beside me. I missed another by about 2 inches......or the equivalent of my High Jump.
Some Nunez kid that plays for the Royals sees my boy and tosses him a ball. Pretty cool.
Now someone hits a HIGH one coming RIGHT at me. I prepare my Cal Ripken Jr. glove and am having one hell of a time judging this thing coming for me. At the last second I turn my mitt over, like I tell my boy not to do, and it hits and bounces out and someone snags it! LOL
A few mins later a player tosses one to another young boy on my other side and he misses it. I turn to get it for him back one row so none of the vultures (adults) take it and I give it to him. As I do this, I hear my boy begin to cry. Turns out, someone smacked one right in his direction and the guy behind him 1 row got his glove above my son's and my wife says he missed it or deflected it right into our boys ungloved hand.
The usher immediately came over and told us where to get some ice. As I was trying to calm him down and make sure his hand was not broken, some young man (probably around 18 or so and we think possibly the kid that ended up with that ball) came down and gave our boy the ball.
His hand is fine and we gave his friend a ball because he had never gotten one before.
The boys then went over with my wife and got Casey Blake's auto on their BP balls.
got there early for BP and we were in right field trying to snag some homers and bouncers. A hot one came in right by the boys and I couldn't reach it without knocking them down (like most of the men do anyways)....so it goes by them and richochets off of a seat and niks my boys ear! LOL. He was fine and I got the ball.
We stay a bit longer and I snag another and give it to the boys beside me. I missed another by about 2 inches......or the equivalent of my High Jump.
Some Nunez kid that plays for the Royals sees my boy and tosses him a ball. Pretty cool.
Now someone hits a HIGH one coming RIGHT at me. I prepare my Cal Ripken Jr. glove and am having one hell of a time judging this thing coming for me. At the last second I turn my mitt over, like I tell my boy not to do, and it hits and bounces out and someone snags it! LOL
A few mins later a player tosses one to another young boy on my other side and he misses it. I turn to get it for him back one row so none of the vultures (adults) take it and I give it to him. As I do this, I hear my boy begin to cry. Turns out, someone smacked one right in his direction and the guy behind him 1 row got his glove above my son's and my wife says he missed it or deflected it right into our boys ungloved hand.
The usher immediately came over and told us where to get some ice. As I was trying to calm him down and make sure his hand was not broken, some young man (probably around 18 or so and we think possibly the kid that ended up with that ball) came down and gave our boy the ball.
His hand is fine and we gave his friend a ball because he had never gotten one before.
The boys then went over with my wife and got Casey Blake's auto on their BP balls.
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