During today’s game against the Kansas City Royals, America’s angry loud but lovable uncle at Thanksgiving, Tom Hamilton, innocently dropped a ball that landed in the radio booth down to some fans. A nice gesture, and certainly nothing to equate making people fall down, playing plinko, or destroying an entire planet.
But something about the way he just sits back down and gets back to work like a consummate pro after dropping the ball lends itself so well to all of that. And more. Oh so much more.
So I made some.
First there was this:
Then unfortunately I had to take my job writing about people hitting balls with sticks seriously and write the recap for the blowout.