How to Make a Baseball Fan, Part 37

I took my 16 year old daughter, Kaitlyn, to see the Nats play the Cubs on Friday night. We were supposed to go on Thursday, but she decided that she should leave school early rather than face the wrath of her science teacher for not turning in her project on time. No school, no ballgame.

I can understand that. Surely. It was a good excuse, too. "I just wrote down the wrong due date!" Doesn't everyone?

So having missed her chance to sit in our regular seats for the Thursday game against the Mets, which featured Felipe Lopez, who suddenly is becoming a fan favorite, belting a grand salami, I figured I would reward her ingenuity and slick thinking by taking her to the game on Friday against the Cubbies. I thought I would really reward her by getting club seats. Okay, fine, you caught me...I was rewarding myself. For what? Nothing. I just wanted to check out the club seats.

In the 8th inning of a 3-3 ball game, she looks at me and says..."kinda boring game, dad." "Kaitlyn, it's 3-3 in the 8th inning....I'd say that is fairly interesting, no"? "Not really", she says.

The 'Nats proceed to hit a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 9th to win 5-3. Sometimes it's just too easy to make a baseball fan...