r/sportsgossips • u/Commercial_Artist_77 • 18h ago
Video Dad handled both sides of the situation.The kid threw the ball and Dad quietly stepped in to handle everything. Peak dad mode at the ballpark.
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u/Outrageous_Owl_1710 18h ago
Thats a good dad, he knew his youngest didn't understand and that his oldest did. tough spot to be in but he did a great job.
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u/cuddle_enthusiast 18h ago
He was really trying not to laugh too much. Sometimes can’t do anything but laugh.
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u/spermdonor 18h ago
The first time my daughter cussed was one of the hardest moments for me not to laugh
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u/Shovelman2001 16h ago
My mom let me say "what the heck" but was never thrilled about it. I learned about "what the hell" somehow, and was under the impression that it was the nicer version of "what the heck". We were in the drop off line at school and I said "what the hell" for whatever reason, and she pulled out of that line like she was in a damn police chase. Bitched me out for like 5 minutes and I was sobbing like "I'm sorry, I didn't know it was bad😭". Ended up being late for school, which she was always fervently against, so I knew I fucked up LOL
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u/MaxHeadroom1986 14h ago
I used to argue with my family that the meaning they assign to words is their problem to deal with and if I want to say shit damn I can because I made up different words. My sister does a skit when she makes fun of it. She goes, "Mother, you would strike me down for sins you created? You would harm the soul of your only male heir for committing treason against a false monarch?" and then she points at me and goes, "that was you"
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u/Inner_Ad_3464 13h ago
My mom used to laugh her ass off because I said it like “what the hail”. Like a decade and a half later and she still asks me to say it like that again for laughs.
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u/8amteetime 17h ago
I did laugh the first time my young son said shit. He looked at me with huge eyes and thought he was in big trouble.
I said that’ll be enough of that, kiddo.
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u/sailphish 15h ago
My kid went through what we now refer to as his “Samuel L Jackson phase” when he was about 2 1/2. Took everything in my soul not to laugh.
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u/iltopop 13h ago
My friend's oldest, like 11 now, when she was 4 or 5 her dad was complaining about his boss after work and his daughter chimed in with "I think he's a fucking dumbass". Mom was the one to be "Now honey those aren't words we use" etc etc cause he was red-faced trying not to laugh, knowing that it was his wife that taught their daughter those words 2 days ago when she was cut off in traffic.
While "fucking dumbass" is obviously something you wanna put the brakes on, it's interesting thinking back to school and teachers ran the gambit from "sucks" instead of "stinks" was unacceptable, to my 8th grade computer lab teacher who didn't think "pissed" was a curse and would only give you a warning for "damn" or "ass", to the high school metals teacher that would use "shit" frequently and "fuck" sparingly.
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u/Will_Stick40 16h ago
When mine did. I asked "in what context did she use it?" My daughter will not cuss and sound stupid! When i heard she used it properly. I corrected her. And was proud!
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u/Tassiegirl 14h ago
When my teenaged oldest accidentally swore in front of me, they were o-0 (I don’t know how else explain it). I laughed and said to be aware of whom they’re swearing in front of. Parents= OK. GPs, not so much.
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u/mambotomato 4h ago
My two year old spilled juice on her pants last week and said, "God dammit!"
Oops 🙊
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u/hexineffex 16h ago
This is a metaphor for being a parent with multiple kids.
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u/Clownfart69420 15h ago
No it’s not a metaphor, it’s literally a parent parenting multiple kids
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u/think_long 14h ago
I think microcosm is a better fit here.
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u/Clownfart69420 13h ago
Eh there’s no larger system unless you’re talking about parenting is a whole. I think you just wanted to use a big word.
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u/haby112 13h ago
I think it's best described as a kind of antidisestablishmentarianism.
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u/WeissPyre 15h ago
Except for the fact that his youngest child is addicted to his phone.
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u/theknight200200 15h ago
It's unfair to judge moments like this where we don't know the context, the younger brother probably has no interest in the game outside of the ballpark either. I probably wouldn't have taken my kid to an event they won't enjoy in the first place, but I mean if he's gonna bring him, why torture him by making him watch when he can be happy and entertain himself instead?
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u/Radiant_One8353 18h ago
Big bro is never going to let that go.
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u/goodguymark 18h ago
When I was 7, my 5 yo brother traded my favorite holographic Pokémon card for some gushers. I still haven’t forgave him
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u/Myhtological 15h ago
Which Pokémon?
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u/goodguymark 14h ago
Giovani’s Machamp 😂
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u/Some-Cream 13h ago
Probably could’ve been a down payment on two houses in this pokemon economy
SMFH
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u/Rocker4JC 12h ago
Nah, the most valuable Gio Machamp is only worth $170 if it's ungraded, and you have to have a 1st Edition stamped one for that.
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u/2023Tubatim 11h ago
Yo that card goes so hard. Cost on a lightly played isn't too prohibitive.
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u/BucksFan342234 9h ago
My little brother asked for my Xerneas EX (my first non-standard card) for show and tell. I made him promise to not trade it at all......
He traded it for 5 pikachus
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u/jimmychitwood317 18h ago
That young man is going to hold that over his brother's head for the rest of his breathing days. It will be replayed, retold, and rehashed at family holiday dinners, his wedding, and when he takes HIS kid to a ball game. He will never escape it. At least, that's how it would have played out in my family. Poor kid.
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u/No-Association-8539 18h ago
It will be in the wedding video.
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u/jimmychitwood317 18h ago
Count on it.
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u/Tall_Birthday_7654 18h ago
One of them will talk about in a eulogy
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u/jimmychitwood317 18h ago
Guaranteed, unless it's a murder-suicide. Then, it will be one of their surviving ex wives.
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u/M2_SLAM_I_Am 18h ago
"It all started over a ball"
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u/jimmychitwood317 18h ago
...it should have been ideal father-son-brother bonding time, but NOOOOO!!!!......
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u/Serenaded 16h ago
and the older brother is secretly still bitter about it 20 years later even though younger bro was 5
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u/jimmychitwood317 16h ago
Yes. I know exactly how this works. It's called "Irish Alzheimers." You forget everything except for the grudges.
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u/PriorMode9422 18h ago
Oh definitely... their lives probably changed after this moment went viral.
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u/jimmychitwood317 18h ago
And poor Dad, trying to console both kids at the same time. It's a Nobel Peace Prize level effort by him.
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u/BoilzBlisterzBurnz 18h ago
He will grow up and post about it on reddit saying "I was that kid and that was my brother!"
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u/Javakid67 18h ago
6 year old quickly back to business on his cell.....
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u/mechapoitier 18h ago
I have a 4 and an 8 year old and holy crap I pray I never let them get addicted to phones like so many parents have. We let them look at family pictures and videos on them, sometimes, and that’s it. There’s a whole damn world out there.
We’ve brought them to full football and soccer games. They get antsy sometimes but you handle it as the moment demands.
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u/ArcadeKingpin 18h ago
I don’t even let my kid touch my phone. IM addicted as fuck but that doesn’t mean he should be. I don’t freak out about screen time that much but phones are the worst
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u/Suspicious_Trust_726 16h ago
I was just talking to my mom and grandma about screen time with my newborn son. My mom said this was a very similar stigma around tv in her generation, my grandma said the same of radio.
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u/Golfisactuallyfun 17h ago
I think thats why the brother is extra upset, its like hes saying “Dad he doesnt even LIKE baseball all he does is play on the phone all game!!”
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ 18h ago
Down vote for starting the clip with the ending. This needs to stop.
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u/BringMeTheBigKnife 14h ago
Thank you. No idea why it's even a thing!! Without the context, the beginning is a non sequitur. And then it repeats itself confusingly. Like literally why?
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u/jrblockquote 18h ago
Welcome to parenting young kids, when things can unexpectedly turn on a dime.
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u/f93nf02ndoqjf392bfiw 18h ago
That is not the first time the younger brother has ruined something of his.
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u/illini02 18h ago
Yep, exactly my thought.
i'd wager this kid ruins his stuff all the time, and the parents just want him to suck it up because he is older.
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u/Surfing_Tension 16h ago
The dad didn’t tell him to suck it up, he comforted him too. I think you’re just projecting.
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u/SurrealKafka 16h ago
My favorite Reddit genre is the people running around projecting their unresolved trauma onto everything
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u/jackaroo1344 12h ago
I bet the younger brother chewed on his older brother's Princess of Peru Barbie so her hands and feet were all ruined with bite marks in them and that Boston dad said it was fine and the doll could still be played with but it wasn't fine because she had special shoes and bracelets to wear that no longer fit on her flattened mangled hands and feet and even when he tried to explain that to his parents they didn't take it seriously at all even though that doll had been a gift from his best friend who moved away so it was special and now every time he played with her little bits of chewed up plastic crumbled off her feet and he got all over again.
Anyway I bet that happened in that family for sure.
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u/techman710 18h ago
The guy who caught the ball is going to hang on to it next time.
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u/mechapoitier 18h ago
Hell yes he is. Imagine you do that good guy moment and the kid tosses it instantly and immediately buries his face in a phone screen.
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u/WINDOW_LICKERxl 18h ago
His brother is going to bring that up at every single family get together for the rest of his life 🤣🤣
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u/Far_Bus_2360 18h ago
See the thing is I being the youngest I would have been a dick to my brother and would have done it on purpose then thats when my dad would have took us home
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u/BuffWobbuffet 14h ago
The way Redditors psycho analyze every video on this platform is genuinely obnoxious and exhausting. Yall don’t look as smart or witty as you think you do when you make wild claims about a 10 second video.
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u/whynotchristy 11h ago
In case you didn't know the Red Socks team staff and broadcasters visited the brothers in their seats, rewarding Charlie with extra baseballs and giving Jack an autographed Kenley Jansen jersey.
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u/No_Giraffe8119 18h ago
Meanwhile holding back a smile because it's kind of hilarious, but the kids would hate it even more if they caught him.
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u/Can-i-Pet-Dat-Daaawg 16h ago
Little brother didn’t even give a shit about it, he just wanted to get rid of the ball and get back to playing on the phone.
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u/Aggressive_Math7977 15h ago
Having taken both my 10 and 6 year old to sporting events by myself, I feel this.
Good dad.
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u/boogierboi 14h ago
That younger brother will never hear the end of this until they're grown and old lol.
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u/Firm_Pie_8988 14h ago
Sweet response from the Dad tho. He remained calm and didn’t scold either kid.
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u/SoulChorea 12h ago
When I was that kid’s age, I swore that’s what you were supposed to do; I don’t know where I got it from but I honestly thought it was a rule 😅 I think lil kids totally think that for some reason
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u/DELOUSE_MY_AGENT_DDY 10h ago
Pretty bad to allow a particularly dumb 6-year-old to have a smartphone
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u/townandthecity 9h ago
I feel for the older boy. Little bro was goofing around dad's phone, hardly paying attention, until the guy gave him the ball. Promptly throws it back. As an eldest, I felt that viscerally. Dad did an amazing job.
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u/IDontKnowAboutThat_ 8h ago
Dad forgot to hug that nice man who gave them the ball and is probably kicking himself for it.
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u/Maverick721 7h ago
So like why? What made the younger kid think he was suppose to throw the ball back
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u/Reicance 18h ago
The older kid doesn't know it yet, but this was a really sweet moment between a father and his two sons. Glad I got to see it =) even tho older bro is upset his poor younger bro didn't know any better lol.
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u/Maniac5150 18h ago
Why’s that kid on a phone? He threw it back and immediately went back to the phone smh
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u/Lieutenant_0bvious 18h ago
Are kids that young allowed to have screens in front of them? We really are screwed.
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u/WeissPyre 15h ago
I cannot stand the Screen Children epidemic. Parents just shoving a tablet or a phone in front of their young kids faces instead of parenting.
Guarantee that's part of what made the older brother so upset: little brother doesn't care about anything that isn't on that damn phone he's got glued to his hand.
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u/hiro111 15h ago
These comments are toxic. It's a foul ball, people. It's not that big a deal. People here are saying "he'll never live that down", "their relationship is changed forever", "he ruined it for his brother". You need to calm down.
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u/BusyBit6542 18h ago
Thats a quick meltdown by the older one.
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u/jrblockquote 18h ago
Probably a big Red Sox fan and doesn't know how to regulate his emotions yet. Not a big deal. Good teaching moment.
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u/lenfantsuave 18h ago
I can see my oldest reacting exactly this way. She’s the most rational of the bunch and has no patience for her siblings behaving like little brother here. Unfortunately 9 year olds don’t know how to scale their emotions to the situation.
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u/illini02 18h ago
My guess is, this isn't the first time the younger one has fucked something up for him, and the parents just say "he's your little brother, he doesn't know better"
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u/HORYGUACAMORE 18h ago
I hear my kid scream “NO!” as that kid hucked that ball. My phones on silent and my kids at daycare. Kids be kids and toddlers can be turkeys. Good on that father, awesome to see.
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u/cvidetich13 18h ago
20 years later at Father’s Day brunch
Big bro: hey remember when that dude caught the ball and gave it to you and you threw it back?!?
Little bro: uh yeah, kinda but not really…
Big bro: YOU’RE picking up this tab!
Little bro: WTF?!?
(now grandpa): lol yeah that was kinda dumb but what ev, I’ll let you get this one.
Little bro: (sheepishly pulls out card) what the shit?!??
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u/doctored_up 18h ago
Youngest brother checking in to say f your ball I hope you wanted to save it forever moohahaha
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u/BreakerOf_Chains 18h ago
This is actually the best scenario, 1 ball 2 kids means 1 kid is dissapointed. Now they both can be, equality at its finest.
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u/Agitated-Block6754 16h ago
For the younger bothers special occasions for the next 75 years he's going to get the same line from his older brother..."I found the perfect gift, but I threw it back." And when he does get him something, it's going to be a baseball!
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u/supercali5 15h ago
This is mostly what parenting two kids is when there isn’t a spouse to take one kid. It’s easier than it looks honestly.
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u/pieorcobbler 15h ago
Hey the woman in the lower left who got excited about Ichiro catching a ball near her in a different video now has a kid!
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u/jeropian-moth 15h ago
I was wondering why they were crying at first until I realized some fuckass engagement addicted person edited that way.
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u/okcboomer87 15h ago
This happens enough. Does the org not throw the ball back up ? Seems like a PR win to do.
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u/FrostyChest7188 14h ago
Dad needs to console the guy who gave the kid the ball in the first place too 😭
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u/Jajay5537 14h ago
This is why you should not let the kid that has 0 interest in the sport that you're attending. Continue to go with them. Don't make it required "man activities" let people have separate interest. Not all girls want to go to get makeup. Not all boys like the same sports as you. When there is one child that does want to go encourage the one who takes it seriously. Don't inadvertently punish the other who couldn't care less. Lol
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u/lib3rtybib3rty 14h ago
It's getting brought up the rest of their lives! Well you threw that ball....
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u/PapaZu1371 13h ago
Maybe kid stays off the phone so they know what’s going on. Pretty sad actually. Kid on phone, Dad consoles kids with phone in hand.
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u/LengthinessClear9552 12h ago
The older bro is there for the game and understands the significance of that ball. That is why he brought a glove rather than the younger brother who brought a phone.
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u/AnnualComfortable101 11h ago
Why end at the start and start at the end almost everytime. It's so confusing at first in that one
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u/_pinkstripes_ 11h ago
Not to be a wet blanket but I have it on good authority that the older brother is a little terror and the younger is well on his way.
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u/gamerdudeNYC 9h ago
Constant repost but I think the Red Sox gave them some merch.
Edit: Signed baseball and jersey of Kenley Jansen
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u/Zinnea87 9h ago
Why is this peak dad mode? Is comforting your upset kids peak or just standard? Seems like a pretty low bar if that’s peak.
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