Sunday, May 11, 2008

Dedication

Papa Poop is like Ernie Banks, he loves a good doubleheader. And he passed that love on to me, and he and I have sat through some doozies. We were at a rain soaked double header against the Giants in 2006, when Milledge pinch ran and scored the winning run in game 2, the day before his famous game-tying hand slapping homer. We sat through a freezing doubleheader against the Cubs on Passover a few years before that, when Master Bates's complaining was more difficult to tolerate than the weather.
But even I don't think I could have done what Papa Poop did.
He had tickets for Friday's and Saturday's games against the Reds so when they were rescheduled for a doubleheader he decided he would stay for both.
Brother-in-law Derick joined him for game 1, but none of the people with whom he has the package that had tickets for Friday, decided to come back, so he sat through the 3 hour intermission, and the 7-1 loss, by himself.
Now that's dedication.

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