{"id":5912,"date":"2010-06-19T21:55:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2010-06-21T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:30:08","slug":"a-fathers-day-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/a-fathers-day-salute\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father’s Day Salute"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suppose this is the perfect time to thank my father for turning me on to baseball, for taking me to Fenway Park when I was a kid, and for not only teaching me how to play the game, but also how to appreciate the game.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember the time when I was younger when my dad and I were watching a Red Sox\/Yankees game on the Saturday Game of the Week.\u00c2\u00a0 A Red Sox batter whom I don’t recall slapped a grounder to the left side of the infield.\u00c2\u00a0 Third baseman Graig Nettles dove to his left but couldn’t reach it; shortstop Bucky Dent ranged far to his right, backhanded the ball and threw the runner out at first by a step.\u00c2\u00a0 My father started clapping.\u00c2\u00a0 I looked at him like he was made of cream cheese.\u00c2\u00a0 He hated the Yankees even more than I did.<\/p>\n

When he saw the look on my face, he said, “watch the replay.”\u00c2\u00a0 So I did.\u00c2\u00a0 The reason he was clapping was because Nettles had the wherewithal to stay flat on the ground so Dent had a clear line of site to first base.\u00c2\u00a0 “That’s just good, heads-up baseball and it deserves applause no matter what uniform he’s wearing.”\u00c2\u00a0 I remembered that and to this day, I’ll applaud a good, heads-up play even if it’s made by an opponent.<\/p>\n

But the reason I’m writing this is to applaud not just an individual, but a group of extremely generous and caring people.\u00c2\u00a0 As you know my friends Tony and Raelynn Hurt lost their daughter Cassidy to Sudden Unexpected Death Syndrome<\/a> on April 22.\u00c2\u00a0 On my birthday, May 3, I set up a memorial fund and asked Seamheads.com readers, friends, and family members to please make a donation to help Tony and Raelynn get through this tragedy.<\/p>\n

Well, today is Father’s Day and though Tony and Rae are doing much better, I can only imagine how difficult the next 24 hours will be for him.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve invited them over to spend the day with us and I’m hoping we can do everything in our power to make the day special, loving, and less painful.<\/p>\n

One of the things I intend to do is write the Hurts a check for $1,250.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s how much we raised through your generous donations.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you all so much.\u00c2\u00a0 As a token of my appreciation, I’d like to salute those of you who contributed to this worthy endeavor.\u00c2\u00a0 Happy Father’s Day!<\/p>\n

(In alphabetical order<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Cara Adams
\nMary Jane Bowen
\nJohn Coppinger
\nFantistics Fantasy Sports
\nJan Finkel
\nBrenda Hanke
\nJeffrey Kutler
\nTed Leavengood
\nChristine Lee
\nLSR Productions East LLC.
\nMichael Lynch III
\nDebra McClellan
\nLinda Miller
\nSam Miller
\nBrian Moynahan
\nPatricia Norling
\nCurt Schilling
\nSeamheads.com
\nPauline Slopek
\nBrian Spadora
\nSteve Steinberg
\nMatt Tarini
\nJohn Tuvey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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