Those games I remember hearing about what traitors the A’s were. They were bad guys. I learned it took, “99 foul balls,” before the guy got to go to base. Dad bullshit answers to me asking questions about how the game worked. He would remind me through adulthood that I wanted to be Willie Wilson. - ThreadSky

ramonadateman.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Those games I remember hearing about what traitors the A’s were. They were bad guys. I learned it took, “99 foul balls,” before the guy got to go to base. Dad bullshit answers to me asking questions about how the game worked. He would remind me through adulthood that I wanted to be Willie Wilson.

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ramonadateman.bsky.social•2 days ago

The ‘89 season we were at the game as much as we could be. That Bo “Drink Milk” poster hung on my bedroom wall and I had a new hero. His legs? Way bigger than Jose’s even with Canseco’s steroid use. I had no capacity to understand my seat wasn’t normal for everyone.

ramonadateman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Later in life we moved to the third base side family section, games were still free and the seats were just as good. It was just nice to be at the game. I learned how to keep score. There was always a glove ready to catch the non-existent foul ball flying our way.

ramonadateman.bsky.social•2 days ago

Life changed a bit and the days of Annie oaklies died down for a few years. The team was terrible anyway and we didn’t want to give them the time of day during the aughts. It was no fun to go to watch them lose every game.

ramonadateman.bsky.social•2 days ago

While he was the reason we got to go when I was small, I became the reason he got to go as I became an adult. It was a proud moment to take him to the playoffs at no cost to him. Glove still in hand, we moved to the loge because it was a good view and not as hot.

ramonadateman.bsky.social•2 days ago

It doesn’t hit too hard often, he had a good run; longer than expected by a decade. He didn’t make it to the last Annie ticket game I had planned out, a moment where he could see where I was and how my life was finally so good. Days like today it hits.

toddcbarton.bsky.social•2 days ago

Today is the first Father’s Day without either of the fathers, and it is really kicking my backside.

The last year or so before he passed, my wife’s dad gave me a baseball he got from the game Nolan Ryan got his 3000 strikeout.

I’ll probably post a story about my dad, since I’ve been missing him.

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