{"id":793,"date":"2010-08-20T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=793"},"modified":"2010-08-20T22:11:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T03:11:48","slug":"sign-him-up-astros-phillies-fans-impressive-on-foul-balls-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/793","title":{"rendered":"Sign Him Up: Astros, Phillies Fans Impressive on Foul Balls (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ever since I was a little kid, I have always reserved the hope that I might be lucky enough to catch a foul ball, perhaps even a yard ball, at a MLB game.\u00a0 There is always that moment right as I get to my seats and check out the view where I evaluate how probable catching a foul ball will be.\u00a0 Although I have come extremely close on a few occasions, and even caught a few batting practice home runs, I am yet to leave a professional baseball game with a foul ball.\u00a0 When that glorious day finally comes, I want to have done it the right way- it must be a barehanded, challenging catch.<\/p>\n

Whenever I see a fan snag a foul ball with a glove, I cannot help but think that they cheated and are therefore unworthy of my praise.\u00a0 The well-timed, barehanded catches have always been the most impressive; they are the ones that receive an ovation from an entire seating level, cause the announcers to take notice, and ultimately secure a shout-out on MLB Tonight and Quick Pitch.<\/p>\n

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Unless you are a seven-year-old kid, bringing a baseball glove to a game just makes you look slightly pathetic.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to be like the low-life in Houston<\/a> who dodged an absolute seed towards his seats on the left-field line, only to have to drill his defenseless girlfriend.\u00a0 Rather, I want to be like the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies fans that recently made two of the finest plays on foul balls that I have ever seen:<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Phillies Fan Doesn’t Drop His Food<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Astros Fan Deprives Mets Fan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ever since I was a little kid, I have always reserved the hope that I might be lucky enough to catch a foul ball, perhaps even a yard ball, at a MLB game.\u00a0 There is always that moment right as I get to my seats and check out the view where I evaluate how probable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,14],"tags":[201,496,580,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}