LSAClassOf2000

April 11th, 2016 at 8:01 PM ^

You know, I've always wondered just how well-connected this blog is in that regard - I know we've seen examples of MGoBloggers running into famous Wolverines and the like, but if you consider the next level - our families - I am curious as to whether or not there is someone an MGoBlogger knows or is related to in the news every day....like the OP's story. 

Very cool indeed. 

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mbrummer

April 11th, 2016 at 8:30 PM ^

In the same section he was,  4 rows down from him.

Seemed super nice.  3 were deflections off the media boxes.  2 of them in the same AB.

One of the other two short hopped the walkway area to him.  

The last one he caught on the fly.  All of these with a glove.

He said he got 35 last year.

He gave all to kids.  

All of them were straight to him, even the sparse crowd, he didn't move from his space much.

Crazy, by the end of the game, people were getting their picture taken with him.

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MGoMatt30

April 11th, 2016 at 8:31 PM ^

I was there and got to see this from the suite level.  In what was an otherwise lousy game with few fans, each successive foul ball caught brougt on a louder cheer and even more so when he tossed them to a nearby kid.  It was pretty awesome to witness!  I know exactly where I'm sitting when I want a shot at catching a foul ball!

I also got to sit next to Kate Upton, but no pics, so it didn't actually happen.  She was also amused, or would have been, had she been there.

 

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Michigan Arrogance

April 11th, 2016 at 8:45 PM ^

I got 2 in one game at Yankee stadium once: tho one was during bp, a screamer of jeter down the line I snagged off one hop; the other a fb off wade Boggs bounced a couple times and came right to me. Had pine tar and all!



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SAMgO

April 12th, 2016 at 9:03 AM ^

Jeter was consistently one of the worst, and many times the worst fielding shortstop in the league for the back half of his career. He's cost his team more runs in the field than any player in the history of baseball (40 runs worse than second place Gary Sheffield, who also had a 20+ year career and nobody is mistaking him for a gold glover). I can respect what Jeter did for baseball, and living in NYC I know how beloved he still is here, but let's not act like this guy was a consistently good fielder. He just wasn't. You remember the "great" plays, but his range was so limited for a decade that most of those plays would have been routine for even an average fielding shortstop.

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CTSgoblue

April 11th, 2016 at 9:19 PM ^

Was at a Tigers game about 20 rows back two seats left of the home plate netting. Prince Fielder fouled one back hard. I dove out of the way like a sissy and my buddy barehanded it. His hand swelled up pretty bad but he had a cool memento and 35,000 fans cheering.

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SwitchbladeSam

April 11th, 2016 at 10:33 PM ^

I have a Prince Fielder home run ball he hit in Arlington a few years back off Scott Feldman when he was still with the Tigers. I paid the guy 2 rows behind me $20 for it as the crowd was chanting "throw it back". To this day, I'm still torn on whether or not that ball was worth 3 beers. The story just isn't a very "cool story bro" when I have to reveal I wasn't man enough to to catch it myself and I had to pay for it. Real men don't have to pay for it.



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Jonesy

April 12th, 2016 at 6:02 PM ^

One of the guys on the Rich Eisen show this morning was ripping into your cousin for being a grown man with a baseball mitt roaming the stadium catching fouls.  You'll be happy to know most listeners and Rich (kinda) disagreed.

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