True story: I went to see the Giants at Wrigley this year, and there was a woman there with her Pagan Fan stuff on: jersey, orange halo. This was not a girl or a kid; this was a woman in her thirties, average looking, with glasses, there with her husband.
And the way that Wrigley sets it up, there’s a kid’s corral out on the field by homeplate during batting practice and many players will come over before or after their BP to sign, but as an adult it’s much more difficult to get an autograph, because the kids’ corral blocks most of the area where players and fans interact. And no adults, not even parents, are allowed in the kids’ corral.
So this woman is standing about seven or eight rows back watching BP and clapping for Angel when he comes out of the cage. She knows that, as a grown woman, there’s no chance of her getting close enough, so she’s just standing back and enjoying the view and hoping that maybe he’ll wave to her or something.
Angel comes over to the kids’ corral and signs some things for kids, and then he looks up and points at this fan and waves. And she waves back and is basically the happiest person on earth.
And then Angel gestures for her to come down.
He gestures for her to come down, and makes the ushers let her into the kids’ corral, and hugs her and signs her jersey and poses for a bunch of pictures with her that her husband takes, and talks to her, and she come back to the eighth row grinning like a fool and when I say to her “oh my God, that was AWESOME!” she bursts into tears of joy and says “Angel Pagan hugged me!”
I’ve always liked Angel -- he seems like a good guy, a passionate player, a good teammate, and he’s hot as fuck --but that moment right there? Made me love Angel. Because he saw that woman (not a little kid, not a hottie in short shorts, a middle-aged normal looking woman) representing for him, and he took a moment to appreciate her. She went above and beyond for him, and he returned the favor.
By the way, she said he smells good, too.
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