Ladies & Gentlemen,The following story comes from our friend Buryvoter. His Son just successfully went through his 4th open heart surgery and is actually headed to Baltimore again today to have yet another proceedure. His Son is fine and healing well but this story is one everyone should read.
One of the Classiest acts Ive seen in a long long long time. Brian Roberts, 2nd baseman, and one of the best players for the Baltimore Orioles visited my son (and the entire pediatric unit) at the University of Maryland Medical Center after open heart surgery recently. No press following snapping pics for press releases or self promotion, just visits, free gifts, and lifting spirits... which worked greatly.
Seems Brian had open heart surgery when he was 5 and received a visit from a well known baseball player which lifted his spirits and made quite an impact on him... That player was B.J. Surhoff! (Also an Oriole for may years)
Thanks to Brian for remaining grounded and thinking of the kids. Word from the nurses and doctors is that he does this VERY often.
5 comments:
BR is the man. He is more than just a student of the game. And that connection to BJ goes deep too. BR was BJ's batboy when BJ played for Br's dad in college, North Carolina if I remember correctly. My wife and I had our eye on BR since his first year in the bigs. We saw him leaving a Saturday game that first year he was sharing 2nd base with whats his name? I cant remeber, we traded him last year or the year before I think...Jerry Harrison, thats it, anyway BR was the last to leave that day, left with Jay Gibbons. Anyway Gibby was driving a 76 Bronco, nicely rebuilt and BR came behind and stopped to sign autographs to the 12 of us standing there. He was surprised we knew who he was and he was really overwhelmed that he had fans. Funny shit. Anyway, the next year we came back and had him autograph a picture we took that day of him signing those autographs. It was pretty cool. Great player. He will be back to form this year, that elbow injury was really harsh. But when it goes to doing stuff like this, it doesn't surprise me that BR is that kinda guy. Very gentlmanly dude. Definatly a rare thing these days.
Interesting the first choice picked out of your polls Joe by Mr. GOBACKTONY is the cery one he was accused of maybe. Anyway glad yo here your son is getting better.
It's not my son. Trying to pick on me, eh West Side? Interesting.
Uh, Mr. A. was printin' what BuryVoter wrote. Criminy, even I figgered that out.
Mr. A., ya gotta make it clearer when yer printin' stuff from other people, like a li'l bold headline of its own or somethin'. Fer instance:
Letter from Slow Moe:
People get way confused. Mebbe just fast readin' 'cause it's a computer.
A lotta you folks focusin' on Mr. A. are missin' the point o' this post. Here's a kid who's had a lotta open heart surgery in his young life and here's a baseball player usin' his celebrity t'comfort rather than exploit...
And what the he11 some o' ya'll wind up talkin' 'bout?
Fer shame. Fer shame!
If'n BuryVoter reads this, I don't know ya, but ya do good pictures and my prayers sure are with yer boy tonight. Keep yer fatherly heart strong fer that boy.
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CD,
You're a good man and that's a great point. There's been so much news and posts today, I simply should have thought of that and I didn't. Forgive me if I confused anybody over that issue?
The family has returned back from a long trip to Baltimore today and their son is doing so well, he doesn't have to return for three months! That's Good News!
Hopefully everyone follows your suggestion and sticks to the proper subject at hand.
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