Posted on 06/09/2010 12:50:46 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
The White Sox fans showed some real class last night when they gave Armando Gallaraga a standing O when he took the field.
I’m 45 and I still take glove...even to the minors in Spokane. My kids do to.
Well, since I consider baseball to be one of the most boring games to watch, I guess a little fan blood from time to time can’t hurt.
Hell, let’s start out by making the bats AND balls out of metal to get the desired effect. <);~p
I’m a bat nazi. I hate the sound of metal bats and would be thrilled if they were banned for that reason alone.
I was at an Oakland A's game several years ago, a woman two seats away from me took a foul ball to the left cheek -- and we were thirty rows back behind the third base dugout.
You attend MLB, you keep your eyes open and yourself ready to move. This was a very young child, one can't expect the same reflexes. Thank God she is going to be okay, for the sake of her and her family and for Russell Martin, I can only imagine how he would be feeling if she had been killed by that ball.
For this use, I like the way they sound.
Oy, that *ping*.
You can hardly see that netting but, it could save someones’s life.
Thank you Lord.
This really bothered me when I read it.
I still do!
Only not to Tiger Stadium 8-(
NHL fans have accepted it since the tragedy we had here in Columbus at a Blue Jackets game in 2002. A 13 year old girl was killed by a puck.
You’re not supposed to say BP for batting practice anymore.
les’ do sumthin ‘bout that.
When I was a kid, that was a little bit gay. You were supposed to tough it up and bare hand it back in those days.
F.B.T.C.B.E.S.....or close!
:)I love it.
I know...it’s hard to keep up sometimes:)
*High five*
I listened to that one via radio and really appreciated all the plays. The game I saw on Sunday had great elements also: good fielding, DeWitt sacrifice bunt, etc., as well as the big plays and dramatic 11th inning, 2-outs win.
Oh yeah, Monday was the night A.J. Ellis made the squeeze play, right?
Dodgers and Braves had a very mild rhubarb, I think it was Saturday, due to Martin’s slide into 2nd.
So am I. That's why I don't mind sitting up in the rafters with the pigeons, lol.
Same here (always took glove to ballpark) when I was a kid. When my kids were little, I took my glove and never wavered my focus from the action at home plate. It really was not relaxing or enjoyable for me, as I was constantly terrified of this kind of incident (especially when we had “great seats” on the 1st or 3rd base lines). As others have observed, these line drives come off so fast and have spin and unpredictable paths that I’m surprised tragedies like these don’t happen more often. If you take a kid, you absolutely have to pay rapt attention to what’s happening and be prepared to react to an incoming foul ball (also complicating matters was that foul balls were frequently deflected by fans sitting in front of us - even had to be cognizant of balls hit into the deck above you - I’ve seen many cases of these hitting the cement or railings and dropping back down to the lower deck and somebody’s head).
Take your kid to the game = BE AWARE and PREPARED!
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