{"id":642,"date":"2012-08-08T11:23:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-08-08T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T15:32:29","slug":"soft-heads-and-hard-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2012\/08\/08\/soft-heads-and-hard-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Heads And Hard Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I very much enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostgame.com\/blog\/clip-board\/201208\/fan-grabs-foul-ball-while-holding-infant\">the latest viral video of a man snaring a foul ball while holding a baby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?width=400&#038;height=254&#038;content_id=23686341&#038;property=mlb\" width=\"400\" height=\"254\" frameborder=\"0\">Your browser does not support iframes.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of questions though. One, because while society &#8212; we! &#8212; applauds &#8212; applaud! &#8212; fathers who put their children at risk of severe injury or possibly even death in order to catch a foul ball, where are the mothers here? Those heads are soft!<\/p>\n<p>And that&#039;s not to say that I wouldn&#039;t try to catch a foul ball if I were holding my child &#8212; I imagine nothing could be more satisfying than fulfilling your parental responsibilities while picking off a screaming line drive into the seats. Because when it goes right, it really goes right. The guy in San Diego actually has nothing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-viral-video-cubs-foul-ball-baby,0,4662661.htmlstory\">the Cubs fan who caught Michael Morse&#039;s foul ball while holding an infant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WZuAMupA4mg\">the Braves fan who caught a foul ball while holding an infant, eliciting applause from shortstop Andrelton Simmons<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/video?id=8200758\">the Texas Rangers fan who did the same (while holding a baby)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#039;s just that when it doesn&#039;t go right, then it really doesn&#039;t go right. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/smtROJs-8BU\">Like with this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smtROJs-8BU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One thing you&#039;ll notice between the successes and failures is the age of the baby. When it comes to those miraculous YouTubable catches, the babies seem pretty young &#8212; some just a matter of months it seems. And the one thing we know about kids this age, maybe the only thing we understand about kids this age is that they&#039;re veritable sacks of flour. In fact, soft heads aside, I bet it&#039;s easier to make those catches with a baby than with <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/5908848\/padres-fan-catches-foul-ball-in-beer-cup-chugs\">a beer<\/a>, much less a <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4a4DWyJ0ur0\">full tray of food, between your legs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the baby is older, you run the risk of having him or her lunge after the ball him or herself, or grab at your glasses while you&#039;re trying to track the ball, or even stick his or her fingers in your nose while you&#039;re trying to catch it. Which is why some things &#8212; like having HBO on after midnight while you feed your son a bottle &#8212; are best left to immobility and developmental immaturity.<\/p>\n<p>Which is to say, this season I would have tried catching that ball. Next season, I&#039;m sitting way up in the third level far, far from where foul balls travel. I&#039;m happy not to have gotten away with one this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I very much enjoyed the latest viral video of a man snaring a foul ball while holding a baby: Your browser does not support iframes. Just a couple of questions though. One, because while society &#8212; we! &#8212; applauds &#8212; applaud! &#8212; fathers who put their children at risk of severe injury or possibly even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,435],"tags":[16,837,560],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fw-link","category-the-cult-of-domesticity","tag-baseball","tag-is-the-origin-of-when-youre-right-youre-right-the-movie-chinatown","tag-mean-old-daddy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}