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(Cincy 2nd Baseman) Brandon Phillips shocks Twitter follower by showing up at his game
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| May 19, 2011
| Duk
Posted on 05/20/2011 7:27:37 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
When it comes to youth baseball, players are sometimes responsible for bringing postgame drinks and snacks for the team.
Connor Echols, however, recently put a new spin on the tradition and brought an All-Star from his local Major League Baseball team, instead.
In what may well represent the pinnacle of modern technological achievement, the 14-year-old Cincinnati Flames third baseman (@cecholzz) was able to lure Cincinnati Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips(notes) (@datdudebp) to his U-14 select team game last week by issuing a simple suggestion over Twitter ...
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Sports
KEYWORDS: brandonphillips; cincinnati; ohio; twitter
Considering how many self-absorbed creeps are in the majors these days, I found this story very refreshing and reminiscent of the good ol' days when professional ballplayers actually lived in and interacted with their communities.
Good for Brandon Phillips!
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I love happy stories like this. I’m not a big baseball fan, but he sounds like a truly nice guy.
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
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posted on
05/20/2011 7:39:14 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Class act. 10,000,000 times better than having Obummer give a commencement address.
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posted on
05/20/2011 7:39:50 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Well done, Brandon Phillips!
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posted on
05/20/2011 7:40:58 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Great story. My grandson played against the Cincy Flames at Cooperstown Dream Park WEEK #4 in 2009. Nice team.
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posted on
05/20/2011 7:47:36 AM PDT
by
hflynn
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
These young men will remember his kindness for many, many years and will have a wonderful story to tell their grandchildren. I hope he hits 40 homers a year for however long he plays for the Reds, as long as they aren’t done against my Atlanta Braves!
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posted on
05/20/2011 7:58:58 AM PDT
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Nice story! Thanks for sharing.
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posted on
05/20/2011 8:00:27 AM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: geezerwheezer
These young men will remember his kindness for many, many years I'm quite sure many major leaguers have a story about meeting a major league player when they were kids. One of these kids may play in the majors one day and "give back" by doing the same type of thing. It's one of the things that keeps baseball going, even in this high-tech, low attention-span era in which we live.
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posted on
05/20/2011 8:03:00 AM PDT
by
kevkrom
(Palin's detractors now resort to "nobody believes she can win because nobody believes she can win")
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Brandon Phillips sounds like a normal human being, not a pampered professional. Great story! Kudos to Mr. Phillips.
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posted on
05/20/2011 8:20:28 AM PDT
by
comps4spice
(Liberalism is a threat to life and liberty in the USA.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
It was about 5:45 p.m. when Phillips received Echols' invitation on his off day, the only one he and the Reds will have until June 2. Phillips said he was wondering what he was going to do with the rest of his day.
"I said, 'Let me think about this,' " Phillips said. "His game was at 6:15. When I got finished eating, it was like 6:10 and I thought, well shoot, I'm going to go to his game. I had nothing else to do. I thought, 'Let me go out and support the little man.' I went out there and he had a great game. I met all his teammates. I met everybody in the park. It was fun. I had a great time."
Great job!
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Anybody with as nice a grin as this has gotta be a pretty good guy.
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posted on
05/20/2011 8:21:34 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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