Last week, muh wife and I headed down to Lakewood, NJ where we joined my family at a baseball game with the Lakewood Blue Claws. It was Father's Day and the ballpark was making a pretty big deal of the special day with special promotions and deals all day long.
After the eighth inning, there was a very special "Musical Chairs" competition. It featured some blown up lounge chairs that you could lift with 2 fingers. There were four participants -- a FATHER with his 6 year old girl and a FATHER with his 6 year old boy.
The young boy was the first to be knocked out... he was followed out by the girl's FATHER. It was down to two and I had to root for the FATHER... BECAUSE IT WAS FATHER'S DAY and he had a darling little shirt on with his children's hand prints on it. Any other day... I would easily be rooting for the little girl to win... why? Because she is cute and a little girl.
After a bit of time, the music turned off and the FATHER fell into the chair. It wasn't even close. The little girl was in the absolute worst possible place to be (directly behind the chair) and the FATHER only had to fall backwards. I was happy, but apparently, the majority of the people in the crowd were not.
They boo'ed the FATHER like crazy. Not a little boo...not a normal boo... but a MAJOR boo...and a half.
I immediately was disgusted by this and frustrated with the predominantly New Jersey crowd.
How could you boo a FATHER... on FATHER'S DAY!?!?!
Seriously....
Then... I remembered a very important fact. The Lakewood Blue Claws are a minor league team for the Philadelphia Phillies... so that explains it since Philadelphia fans are easily... the worst fans on the planet.
Poor guy... and in case you are one of the cold heartless assholes who think the father should have been boo'ed -- he gave the prize to the little girl... adding more insult to his injury.
It's Father's Day... don't they get ONE day to win?
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