A night at the ball park

Ever since Molly was about 6, I have taken her to at least one Yankee game a year. Molly played softball when she little and she knows the rules and can follow along, but going to the game isn't really about baseball. Molly is now 14 and the game we went to earlier this week was perhaps our best ever.  I didn't hurt that the Yankee crushed the Orioles, scoring in almost every inning, but that was secondary.  For 3+ hours, it was breathtakingly, sincerely, sublime daddy/daughter time. For every player we imagined that we were the world's worst/funniest announcer, trying to out-due each other on who could mispronounce each player's name the worst (Gio Urshela = Guy-O Ursela, Austin Romine - A-us-tine Ro-minny, Jonathan Villar = Jone-AT-han Will-air, Aaron Judge = A-A-ron Jud-Gee, etc).  Molly suggested that Coke buy the at space directly below the Pepsi sign and have it read "Stinks" is the same colors and font as the Pespi sign.  We wanted to buy space on the big digital message board; usually it says things like "Dear Tom, Congratulations on your graduation, love Mom and Dad", but we wanted it to say things like "Dear John, Happy 106th Birthday, love Dad", "I know this game is our first date, but will you marry me?", "First one to bark like a dog in section 212 wins $100", "Dear Donald, please don't deport me, I promise not to tell anyone your secret, Love Melania", etc.  We wondered at why the National Anthem was played as an digital instrumental and why no one was singing (even though the words appeared on the screen). We agreed that players who hit a home run to tie or take the lead should be able to celebrate wildly when they run around the bases. I told her how I recently got to go on the field (at Citi Field) for work and shared a selfie of my in the dugout (she was actually impressed). We chatted and joked the whole time and it was genuinely fun. Teenagers are certainly tough, but Molly has amazing sense of humor and a creative, analytical mind that looks at the world a little bit sideways. I love it and I love her. 

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