“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
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It was a deep hit ball to the outfield. As the ball traveled towards the wall, the outfielder moved towards it. Tracking its movements with his own. At the perfect moment, he lept high, glove meeting ball at its apex. Robbed! What was a sure home run, was suddenly just a long out.
The outfielder might have been cool in his reaction, but in a living room, in Nashville, a 10-year old boy lept from the couch screaming, “MMMMOOOOOOOOKKKIIIEEE!!!!”
The outfielder in question was Dodger outfielder Mookie Betts. The 2018 National League MVP selection. The game was game 7 of the National League Championship. It was the fifth inning and at the time Bett’s team, the Dodgers, were trailing by a run. Seeing as the Dodger’s only won by one run, some might say they wouldn’t be going to the World Series without that catch. Keep in mind that’s an 8-foot fence and Betts is only 5’9.
The rest of the country might have thought what they were seeing was something out of the ordinary, but here in South Nashville we’d tell them, “Nah, that’s just Mookie.”
Bett’s you see is the proud product of Overton High School. That’s right, public school Overton High School. Not BGA, or MBA, or and of the other private schools that regularly snap up all the CONTINUE READING: THE PRIDE OF OVERTON CLUSTER – Dad Gone Wild