So a longtime friend, Rick, posted at Facebook not too long ago the sentiment “Uplift your friends, they are amazing”, something we could all use in doing more of, especially these days, almost at exactly the same time that I had done something to just that effect here in the Attic, for a co-worker. Longtime friends tend to unintentionally find themselves on the same page with this sort of stuff, thus, one of the reasons behind longtime friendships explained.
Anyway, with that “uplift your friends” thought in mind, a something then for a different co-worker, friend, Bob Miller, host of one of our Morning Shows here in the building, WBPM.
I’ve known Bob for many radio years and he is one of those co-worker friends that you are truly disappointed if you, say, come into work only to find they have that day off that you then curse for being so selfish as to ruin your day by them not being around.
Anyway twice, I was talking to Bob yesterday morning and he was telling me of his gig from the night before of WBPM being the host station for a night at the ballpark with our local Hudson Valley Renegades, a NY Yankees affiliate.
Now at these events, whatever station might be the one on hand for the night, the jock representing the station is always in line to throw out the first pitch with that fanfared announcement from the P.A. guy Rick Zolzer “Zolz” of “Please welcome now, (echo echo echo … hehe) to throw out the first pitch, so and so from so and so radio station!!” or something of the sort, followed always by raucous applause and fans clamoring at the front row of seats for autographs after that first pitch is thrown.
Ok, well … but still, it is a pretty cool moment, I’ve been there.
But when Bob was recounting his night after I had asked him how it went he told me that while he was hanging out in the WBPM spot with the WBPM vehicle, greeting game goers, he saw a dad and his son playing catch in the parking lot. He said he approached the dad and son and asked the dad if maybe his son might like to throw out the first pitch. He even told the young fan and his dad, to help alleviate any of the young fan’s newfound sudden nervousness, that he would accompany them out to the mound.
Now Bob couched all of this in “I didn’t really want to do it anyway (the first pitch) Mr F so the kid helped me out” but I could tell he was pretty pleased about how this went down, pretty proud to tell me about the cool thing he had done.
So, a young baseball fan got chance to take the mound at a Minor League ballpark, with his dad, in front of the crowd at a Minor League ballpark and throw out the first pitch to a catching prospect in the NY Yankees system … and then get to keep the ball (and also possibly save Bob Miller the embarrassment of bouncing one or hitting a P.R. assistant).
Nicely done Bob, nicely done my friend.
And nicely done as well Rick on this “uplift a friend” thought.
It should be a regular “thing”, for all of us.
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