Albert Pujols was at the hospital yesterday, but not for his own injury. He is fine, but was visiting a two-year-old boy that was hit in the forehead by one of Pujols' foul balls on Monday. He brought the kid an autographed bat, an autographed hat, an autographed baseball card, two autographed baseballs, two batting gloves he wore in a recent game and a pair Nike cleats. He also posed for a Polaroid photograph with the boy and told his parents they could get free game tickets anytime. ''I'm just here to pay some family some respect,'' Pujols said. ''I'm glad he's doing better. He's a nice little kid.'' Very cool. May. 26 - 9:20 am et Now watch him go out and hit 3 Homeruns tonight. Babe Ruth revisted?
That's pretty cool. Usually it's standard that anyone injured by a stray bat/ball gets some free stuff, but rarely ever does the player go out of his way to visit the person and totally shower them with gifts like that.. free tickets anytime, awesome
There was also a special about him one or two weeks ago talking about all the thing's he done for some disadvantaged children. The man appears to be an absolute saint!
I can see Brad Ausmus now... "Free tickets whenever you want them." "Really? Wow! Thanks!" "No problem at all." "Wait...free tickets to any game or just Astros games?" "Well, just our games, of course." "Get the hell out of my son's hospital room."
I think they should put some of those disc shooters in the crowd. The new word for foul will become "pull". I think we will see a decline in foul ball injuries, but possibly one or two deaths a year.
Michael King adjusts the hat of his 2-year-old son Bryson at Children's Hospital. Here is the full article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...053E82A30EB73A408625700D003EE580?OpenDocument
don't tell me stories like this. i need to hate pujols, as a member of the friggin cahdnals. everything i've ever heard about this guy is good. he apparently has a huge heart for kids. nice to see.
Boy: Hey, Joe. Would Joe hit a home run for me today? Joe: Sure, anything for you Cancer Boy. Anything for you on account of your dyin'. [Later the same day. on the radio.] [Voice-over coming from radio]: And it's two out, two on, bottom of the ninth and a full count to Big Joe. He's had a rough day--he's O for 3 and it completely off his stride. The pitcher looks in. Here's the pitch. It's a strike. Big Joe is outta there. Detroit wins seven to two.] [To Reporter] Joe: G*d damn. It's that dyin' kid. He put too much f***in' pressure on me. [V.O.]: [soft, barely heard over crowd] Big Joe puts the blame on some dyin' kid he met earlier in the day. We'll be back with that stats right after this.] [Boy reacts to Joe's words.] [Cut to later.] Dave: Sorry about that home run kid. I kinda had an off-day. I don't know if this will make it up to you. But, I got you a twenty dollar w****. ["w****" enters room to the sound of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" playing slowly on the organ.] Bruce: Wow. Forget the home run Joe. Let me at that w****.
