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Baked Potato

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8. Me neither! All of us always have the gloves out and ready...

Mon Oct 17, 2022, 04:41 PM

Oct 2022

Once in SD at a Padres-Braves game, must’ve been 04-06 ish we were in center-right and a ball came right at us…. it curved toward Mrs. Potato and shit we all know a ball coming at you is scary as you-know-what…

So this dude from three rows back topples over the seats and shoved the Mrs to the side and the ball deflected off his glove and down to the bottom of the seats…

There was a mad scramble to grab that little sucker and the rapscallion from rows back came up with the ball!

The son who was with us is 6’ 4” and at the time an active duty Marine gestured to me should he, well, get the ball?

No, we nodded, all’s fair in love and ball-grabs…

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