A Professional Baseball Player

I must confess to being a Boston Red Sox and Milwaukee Brewer fan before writing this post. Professional baseball players sometimes get a bad rap. For example Brewer baseball fans can not forget about former Brewer Gary Sheffield. After he left the city, Sheffield told the Los Angeles Times’ Bob Nightengale that his time in Milwaukee “brought out the hate in me. I was a crazy man. . . . I hated everything about the place. If the official scorer gave me an error, I didn’t think was an error, I’d say, ‘OK, here’s a real error,’ and I’d throw the next ball into the stands on purpose.” Do not worry folks, Sheffield is making millions of dollars playing for the New York Yankees (aka "The Evil Empire")

Something happened to me while watching the Cincinnatti Reds play the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park this past week. What I am about to tell you did not make ESPN's Top Ten Plays of The Day. In fact it was not even reported in the newspaper!!



Damian Miller (the oldest player on the Brewers roster) was catcher when a long fly ball is hit to left field. The Brewers needed to stop the tall, burly Adam Dunn that stands at 6-6 but looks like a monster standing at third base. As the ball flew out to Corey Hart an anxious Dunn was ready to tag up heading to home plate after the Hart catch. The Brewers Hart catches the ball and fires a bullet to Damian Miller who was waiting for the ball at home while Dunn powers his way to the plate. Realizing that he was going to take a hit Miller catches the ball and tags Dunn out as he takes a shot from the overpowering Dunn. Did he have the ball as his entire body went down to the ground? It was hard to say because the shot Miller took was fierce. With both men on the ground Miller stood up and dropped the ball in front of Dunn walking to the Brewers bench to end the inning not saying a word. The crowd applauded and the Brewers ended up losing 4-3. No one mentioned anything about the play in the paper but Miller is now my favorite Brewer and he did not have to say a word. If only Gary Sheffield would have been there to see a true professional ballplayer.