So resharing so I can talk about the conversation Stephanie and I are having.
As was obvious from my previous post I contend that Kid Legendary there is trying to get laid. I don’t think he DID get laid. But I think Kid said “yes, this is my chance to impress the honeys behind me!”
Steph on the other hand insists that the kid had nothing sexual on his mind and instead is just deriving joy from “pulling a fast one” on somebody (anybody). She thinks he didn’t even know who was behind him and didn’t care, so long as he was fooling *somebody*
I think Steph is adorable. I think any 10 year old boy KNOWS when a hot woman (man if he’s gay) is sitting behind him. It’s entirely possible that Kid Legendary doesn’t even know what sex actually is. But he does know he wants some. And THAT is why he gave her the ball.
Maybe women just don’t know this. Maybe women think 10 year old boys are just nice. Trust me. If a 10 year old boy that you don’t know is being nice to you he is hoping to see your boobs.
http://deadspin.com/boy-pulls-off-the-smoothest-foul-ball-trick-to-impress-1578118307
Boy Pulls Off The Smoothest Foul Ball Trick To Impress Girl Behind Him
One kid at last night’s Blue Jays-Rangers game got the best of both worlds: An MLB foul ball and the attention of a girl sitting in the row behind him.
It’s no mistake that he gave it it the prettiest one. And women do know this.
Stephanie can answer for herself, (because she hates when I put words in her mouth) but I think she believes that he was just reaching the ball out to anyone behind him and that the girl on the left is just the only one who reached forward for it.
But yeah…. No… He knew what he was doing…
Watching the video a couple times, it looks like he turns around and is offering it to the woman directly behind him, who doesn’t make a move to take it (maybe she’s being nice, not wanting to take the ball from a kid) and the woman on the left reaches out for it. I think the first woman’s expression is a disappointed “I can’t believe she took the ball.” But clearly, the woman who took it is used to males doing nice things for her.
Yup. The game had been going on for a bit. He knew who was around him.
Babies and toddlers often “flirt”. Same principle. Even if he doesn’t KNOW what sex is (ick – girls) he knows.
thinking about it more, I think he was just trying to get rid of the ball he’d been holding. His friend was also holding a ball, so he didn’t give it to him. I think it may have just looked like he was “pulling a fast one” when he was doing something to convenience himself.
see, I don’t think he was trying to give it to the girl on the right at all. He knew exactly who he wanted to give it to. Steph has been watching it in slow motion, so she thinks she sees I’m pause at the closest girl first. But I don’t think so. I think this was “hey baby, let me hook you up with this baseball….” and he wanted it to go exactly where it went.
Now that said, if the right most girl had done anything remotely flirty to him, she’d have gotten the ball
Stephanie: you really are adorable. 🙂
Maybe someone will interview the kid, so all this can be resolved.
no it wouldn’t. He’s not going to say that. A 10 year old boy is smart enough to lie. He’s not going to go “yeah, I dunno… i thought this a good opportunity to get laid, so I went for it.”
at 10, you totally know that you’re still young enough to play anything that might be considered inappropriate off as “but I’m just a kid. I don’t know any better”
He probably didn’t want to confuse the “real” ball with the one he’d brought either.
if that were the case he’d have given it to one of his friends.
His friends had their own balls, too. If they had to hold 2, then it would be harder to catch a foul.
he has a very obvious flourish when he turns. He definitely wanted it to look like it was the real ball
He was probably happy he got a game ball.
see!!!! adorable!!!
Reuven Goren: people also have the tendency to project intent onto random events.
Oh, absolutely people do that. I don’t think that’s the case here.
I’m with Reuven. I think it happens. I think that’s not this.
He definitely did a quick glance over the girls behind him and chose the one on the left. I’d say it’s a combo of wanting to pull a fast one AND going for the attention of the cute girl.
I doubt that was their first interaction of the game.
Catching a game ball is a matter of honor, no 10 year old baseball fan is going to give one up even if he had already caught a dozen that day, unless it’s for a younger sibling. This was totally a move to score points with the honeys.
Well the ball he gave away wasn’t actually a game ball. So Steph thinks it was worthless to him and would have just been in the way.
I contend that Steph has never been a 10 year old boy.
From Texas…never trust a boy from Texas….
Yeah, even if not a game ball I don’t see the 10 year old me giving away a baseball lightly, it’s not like it’s that difficult to carry several of them.
As a post aware-of-girls male myself I’ll go a step further, never trust a male that’s aware of the fairer sex. One could call my actions into question as young as 5.
That’s what I was telling her. She thought he “didn’t want to get them confused”
But that wouldn’t happen either.
I just think she wants to think the best in people. So do I… Only to me “the best” in this case is “dammmmn!!!! Kid Legendary got skillz, yo!”
stepping in here as a friend of a friend, hi. i am with the guys here, and my additional proof and rationale for this comment is the boy’s presumed father, whose embarassed eye roll tells me he is also with us and has perhaps seen/heard some less smooth stuff this game/life. i dont think he would have had that reaction that quickly in the “pulling a fast one on anyone” world.
Yea… that kid’s smooth. I mean he’s the kind of 10 yr old boy who wears pink sunglasses and sits front row. He’ll be in a frat in 10 years
As a female, I think he is totally flirting.
you know, there’s a slight chance the kid’s just being nice. like…maybe he was raised on a farm in kansas by a kindly old couple…or a single mother who died of tuberculosis in 1935 and he’s just passing time til he’s old enough to fake being 18 so he can enlist. I’d say there’s a 2.5% chance he’s just a nice kid…
He does ‘wave’ over his head Chris. Whether he had ‘getting some’ or not on the mind conscious or unconscious, he was also being a douche… He kept the real ball in his mitt. That’s being an ass. Mister tricky. Probably learned from his dad.
I finally watched the video. That little cheat! If he’d given her the real ball, he might’ve gotten laid in six or seven years.
oh, i totally acknowledge he was being a douche… I’m just saying his motives for giving the ball away weren’t innocent
If he’d given her the real ball I might have given him the benefit of the doubt on innocence.
Hmmm, you made me go back and watch it a few times…I don’t know about “getting laid” part but definitely an act to impress the ladies, in front of his friend & dad for sure…as well as to “pull a fast one”. The trickery part plays a little heavier on this one for me than the sexuality you’re implying. Just sayin…guess I’m in the middle of you & steph here 🙂