Just to be clear, this really happened. I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
My friend came back to visit in August. Her daughter was not with her this time. We had tickets to a Saturday 4 pm game and the Sunday day game, which was also On Field Photo Day.
Saturday it was me, my friend, and my stepdaughter. Of course we waited after. We stayed close to the end of the line so we’d get a chance to talk to Jarren for a few minutes. There was a little older lady next to us that we were chatting with. She was asking us about our tattoos and wanted to know if we’d met Jarren because she just adored him.
Earlier in the day my friend bought a baseball card from the team store so she had something for Jarren to sign. When he did the Section 10 podcast he commented that he was sick of signing the same rookie card when he so many others. I mentioned that to my friend and she got all flustered and said “well that’s all I have”. She gets super awkward with him, like most fans. So when he gets to her, the first she does is apologize for this card. His dramatic side of course came out and he said “I don’t know why everyone says that.” She threw me onto the bus and pointed at me like I was the one that started this whole thing. He gives me this look with his mouth wide open, like I’m horrible for saying something. Now I’m the defensive one and I start saying “you said it! I didn’t say it. You said it!“ He is just cackling at this point and I say “why are we always yelling at each other?” so he signed the card and the next thing she asks is if they can redo their picture because as I said, in the first part, he didn’t put his hand on her shoulder. He kind of hovered it, But it looks ridiculous because of the way he’s holding it. So she literally says “we need to redo it because it looks like you think I have cooties.”
Again, he gets the super dramatic look and looks at me like I have the answer I say “no it’s pretty bad, definitely redo it.” and he tells me he needs to see this picture and I said I’d show it to him in a minute.
He finishes with my friend and my stepdaughter gets her time with him and she gets another huge hug from him. He is so sweet with her. So then he gets to me and I’m holding “the pen“ and I say “so this is the pen that I couldn’t find“. Before I could even finish my sentence, he says in like a really teasing voice “I told you I gave it back to you.” The whole time he has 1000 watt smile.
When they were in Mexico before the season started, NESN had done a this-or-that with Mexican food. If you haven’t seen it, it’s hilarious. He basically says churros for every answer. Right after that had aired, I was looking for a new hand soap at Bath & Body Works. All the scents were beach this and paradise that and then all by itself they had a churro scented one. Something made me buy it and I had planned to give it to him. But then I lost my nerve and I didn’t. But after the whole thing in July, I figured I just had to do it.
So I say to him, “Remember the whole churro interview?” He rolls his eyes and says “oh god, yes.” and I continued “so I saw this, and I know it’s crazy, but I immediately thought of you and I had to get it for you.” and I handed him the bottle of hand soap. This man absolutely lit up. He had the biggest smile and was so excited and his voice went up about 10 octaves and he said “are you giving this to me?” and I said, “of course I am it’s churro scented!” I swear I don’t think he could’ve been any happier if I had handed him a World Series trophy. He was just so excited so then I asked him if I could have a hug. Again he gave me a huge smile and then immediately started, teasing me and said “after the way you talk to me? Yeah.” he gave me a huge hug and while we’re hugging, I said “you love it!” He was just giggling.
So then he remembered to ask me about the picture where he looked like he thought my friend had cooties. I had to grab my phone and find it so I told him to move onto the older lady next to us. I didn’t hear what they talked about, but she did get a big hug from him. When that was over, I said OK I have the picture. I held out my phone so he could see it and he said “well I can’t just TOUCH people!”
My brain wanted to say, “You put your hand on my shoulder.”
What came out of my mouth was completely different. I said, “Well you touched me.”
I wish I had a picture of the look he gave me. It was kind of like shocked Pikachu and I immediately realized what I had said, and started basically yelling, “Oh my God, not like that!!!“ He was dying laughing. 
We said goodbye and he told us to have a nice night.
Sunday, we got there in time for On Field Photo Day and headed out to the field to try to find a spot. We basically stood in the first open space we could find. You just kinda have to see who walks by you. You don’t really get a choice. Of course, Jarren just happened to be near us. When he saw us, he got the biggest smile on his face, and he immediately said, “Hey, guys! Good to see you again!” He genuinely seemed happy to see us. We quickly chatted and got some pictures.
Sadly, I haven’t gotten to see him since. I can’t wait. 
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