Woman writes a very lengthy Substack piece laboriously defending her husband after he was mocked (hilariously) by the announcers at a Giants game.
She was caught on camera carrying a baby and a stack of 3 food containers, lumbering back to her seat:
Mom of the year pic.twitter.com/nUTgAhr0nr
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 24, 2026
The clip went viral, with predictable on-line trashing of the man, and now we've got the woman, in another dimension of multi-tasking, writing "I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband. You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night."
What else was happening that night? We're told the couple attended the ballgame in remembrance of a recently deceased friend. The woman was carrying a baby and food, but the man was "carrying" his grief: "The camera showed what I was carrying in my hands. It couldn’t show what he was carrying that night."
By the way, the announcers were great, in true baseball-announcer form, so friendly and affectionate, with exclamations like "Holy smokes!" "Oh, my goodness!" and "Bless her heart." I love this part of baseball on TV — the camera finds interesting people in the crowd, and the announcers have gentle fun with it. There's so much affection for the fans. And those fans all know they could be caught on camera at any point. They're part of the show.
I'd recommend against going into social media to call more attention to yourself. It seems as if it was one more thing the woman had to do for the man.
ADDED: Ramses, now there's a name. Was he named after the Ramses who was Ozymandias, the "vast and trunkless legs of stone" in Shelley's poem? Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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“It seems as if it was one more thing the woman had to do for the man.”
If you read the piece, she makes it clear that she wrote it for herself not for her husband. She doesn’t want the world to think less of her for staying in a marriage with a bad husband. She’s not defending her husband, she’s defending herself.
“I love this part of baseball on TV”
…me too. Red Sox Don and Jerry were great at it. Inane banter. We all complained about the pace of the game but there was something magical about the small talk or long pauses in the call of the game…
From the linked piece:
"Going viral has shown me firsthand that we have become quick to vilify people from a brief clip, filling in everything we cannot see with assumptions. You could see that my hands were full. You couldn’t hear my husband offer to help or hear me tell him to eat. You couldn’t know that he was grieving or that I wanted to take care of him that evening. If our viral moment contributes anything to the ongoing cultural conversation about how we judge what we see online, I hope it reminds us to be more comfortable saying, “I don’t know the whole story.”
The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression. It is a life philosophy that asks us to be curious before we are certain, to leave room for an explanation, and to remember that the person on our screen has a life beyond the moment we are watching."
…I like her essay and glad she wrote it. We’re going through a high-profile death in the family taking turns carrying the stray people and food back to our seats to watch the game…
My wife loves to go to games. When we go, she mostly loves to roam around the park and snack. I prefer to watch the game. If one of us is going to make a run to the concession stand, it will be her. Knowing nothing else, that’s my assumption here.
I think the announcers were as Althouse described. They commented on her in a complimentary manner. She was being a good mom taking care of her entire family, and probably would be the last to eat in the seats.
Mostly it is 0-1 game in the 5th between to teams already eliminated from playoff contention. Not much else to discuss about the game.
She's standing by her man. Nothing wrong with that (except that as Althouse notes it brings her husband's mockable conduct to a much larger audience). The guy has to just take the hit. A little humor goes a long way.
Also--going to the ballgame in remembrance of a deceased friend. I'll have to use that one sometime.
Everyone knows better than to insult Ramses.
For those who don't, for whatever reason, follow links, the woman left her seat because she needed the bathroom and took the baby to go ahead and change her diaper, as a matter of efficiency. On the way back, she texted her husband to ask if he wanted something to eat and included a screenshot of a menu. This is what set up the video that we saw.
Now, people have no expectation (or shouldn't have any expectation) of privacy in public. And people are going to make what they will of what they see, however surface.
This is a cautionary tale about jumping to conclusions, though, which is why I excerpted the two paragraphs I did in my previous comment. (By the way, these are the two paragraphs that preceded Althouse's excerpt.)
I would also note that sometimes humans single out other people for praise as a way of, if not denigrating, then at least mocking other individuals. Although no doubt intended in a lighthearted way, this is what the announcers accomplished, regardless of intentions. Of course, whatever other on-liners did with that banter is on those on-liners. But the announcers' jumping to conclusions did sort of set that stage.
Oh no, ann.
Read the whole thing?
That lady was absolutely right to "wade into social media" and tell us the rest of the story... she is happy, and her husband supports his family.
Can you say that?
Stop judging old woman and leave other more traditional families alone...
(she took the girl with her to the restroom for a diaper change,and asked the husband if she. could buy some food for him to eat on her way back to the seats... he hadn't eaten all day working, she had. So he ate first...)
You gotta stop hating men, annie.
It's gonna cost y0u another marriage if you dont treat men respectfully as equals... hard for you, since you married down to an uneducated boy, but try?
People like ann make their money today denigrating others and tearing our country apart to make themselves out to be the wise judgers of others.
Saddest thing is, she does it for the money, and attention, she doesn't really need...
I am glad title 9 came along to teach the generations coming up after the boomer girls that it's OK to play ypur own sports and develop your own lifelong hobbies. Nobody wants 5o end up like poor ann in madison, with a man, but no identity of her own.
"lumbering" back yo her seat...
Lol. She's not THAT fat, annie.
She was graceful actually and dint run anybody over getting back to her seata
The problem is sports announcers who think they’re the show.
Her love and her eloquence are praiseworthy.
Men engage in insulting each other as a kind of bonding.Real men take it and joke about it more, insulting in turn. Women dont get this about men. So can turn something good natured into a form of emasculation. She is defending her husband like she would be defending a girl friend of hers
My experience, there was nothing out of the ordinary in that clip.
A lot of times I see what I want to see. We have a tag for that.
It's about perspective and not jumping to conclusions with a glance. anamorphic sculpture (or perceptual sculpture)
Mike Krukow pitched for the Cubs (1976–81).
Looks like you misjudged this story too, ann...
Don't you get tired misreading headlines and blowing popular takes?
This is a good woman. She has a strong family. Leave her alone and try punching up at the people in power lying and cheating,not the little American families just trying to get by?
Only the dirty dawgs here like your mean grrl mode. You should know why you drive good people, good women, educated commenters out playing to the divorced, ant-family old misogynists you and meade have collected in your fart filled "salon" over the years.
Remember how the boys in the garage band almost burned down your house before you realized what you were hosting, unsupervised in your home?
Don't you learn?
The beloved Detroit Tigers' radio announcer Ernie Harwell had this shtick where when a fan caught a ball in the stands, he'd say "That ball was caught by a man from _______," and he'd randomly pick a town in Michigan, or in whatever state the game was being played, just to give the town a little air play. Some listeners thought he actually somehow knew where they were from, but he acknowledged he just did it for fun.
In 2026, it appears that any public interaction between the sexes, particularly involving families and children, will be press ganged into fodder to feed the war between men and women. How did we get here and why?
Discuss.
"They're here from Sandwich." - Jack Brickhouse
Paddy, her man is in a bad place...
She doesn't want him to join the depress3d working-man is belittled into taking his life club...
Good for her for defending a man who works to support her and his children at home. Most men today cut and run... cohen, meade...
Annie chose losers. She can't imagine a woman and man in an equal marraige supporting one another in traditional ways. He is her mealticke5, and sh3 respects that. Nobody respects meade, really...
Ask the professor, mezzrow.
Apparently she cannot find anything g newsworthy in America today that she is brave enough to opine on, so social destruction is her only way of feeding the fire and remai ing relevant...
And tossing red mear to her domesticated animals here.
'He said he’d have whatever had the shortest line."
Southern women have an expressive reaction when they hear something like that. It resembles a cat expression.
Prof,
Try the more meaty conversation between Dionne, Siegal and Carney (catholic dad of 6... no law degree like douthat, and east coast isolated, but good chu4cggoing catholic conve4ts like vance, so they are qualified to lead... lol) in todays NYT on what is happening in Midwest politics?
You live here, so intact lady parts or not, you too qualify to opine in matters that matter now in the country. Whay are you waiting for? Money?.
Leave the mothers alone and take your potshots at the daddy's in power, nor some poor schmuck at a ballgame with his wife and daughter?
You are old and in m the dinner singalong demographic... those are the minds you should be contending with. Stop watching boob tube with yer man and up yer game?
Lol... youre in the Dionne Siegal old people d3mographic... boomers fading into senility still convinced you have a say in America's future...
Not the dingaling singalong dinner demographic..
Remember, the less you read, the more you lose the skill so know even basic headline style flummoxes you, because you dont know where to place the emphasis on words when you are used to someone reading to you doing that job for your brain...
Ditto with the dingaling stories. You have to sharpen your mind against brains that can challenge you, old grrrl.
Don't go out like this, prof.
Ask AI if you cant think about this for yourself, but only want to hear flattery... it will tell you the truth if you keep prodding for the answers you want to hear. You get that right?
Jersey Fled, in baseball, the announcers really are a significant part of the show.
You know the way the wife was standing on camera there?
Sure looks like she was trying to show off her huge chest... look at them breasts!
Hey, it could happen... you could go viral again! Lol
Too bad she brought him brisket, not carrot sticks and onion rings. Think of what controversy you could cook up with that to get your blofg attention... lol
A baseball game that runs 3 hours averages out to around 18 minutes of actual action. The announcers have a lot of time to fill, particularly in a dull game like thia apparently was.
Paddy: "Men engage in insulting each other as a kind of bonding.Real men take it and joke about it more, insulting in turn. Women dont get this about men. So can turn something good natured into a form of emasculation. She is defending her husband like she would be defending a girl friend of hers."
Bingo. The guy is probably taking a load of good-natured shit from his buddies. That's how he knows they are his buddies.
Ronald Reagan got his start remotely announcing Cubs ballgames on the radio in Iowa, using teletype reports of what was happening and filling out the details and sound effects as if he was there.
From the title quote, I was expecting Eye of Horus and humans with doberman faces and the like.
They appear to be Mexican or Latin American.
The traditions I notice in that community: -
The husband works and mother stays home and cooks / takes care of the kids.
Oh NO! Unapproved behavior by the NYT and the white left.
She must be converted, for the sake of the cause. There's an election coming up, you know. Give the comments a few days to sink in, she'll be writing about her trial separation and swiping right before you know it.
He was named after a condom that broke...
If we're going to stoop to making fun of boys' names now, miss triple aaa...
"A baseball game that runs 3 hours averages out to around 18 minutes of actual action. The announcers have a lot of time to fill, particularly in a dull game like [that] apparently was."
3 hours = about the length of a Joe Rogan podcast. And like a Joe Rogan podcast, the audio track is 2 companionable guys talking casually and with gentle energy and humor. It's nice to let that flow into your home life. Very likable.
You can do other things at the same. If anything needs to be watched, their clamor will get you to look at the screen. There will be a replay.
James K @7:27am. So funny that you mentioned Ernie Harwell's filling in time by saying that "foul ball was caught by a gentleman from Oscoda", or some other town in Michigan.
I was literally thinking the same thing when it was brought up how baseball announcers have to fill in the time between actual action.
When I was a young boy in Detroit I used to ask my dad, "How does he always know where these people are from?"
I'm still wondering.
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Carrying all that food to just one man
You can tell them to leave the ballgame on at the nursing home as distraction for old white people ... they can pretend the announcers are companions like their imaginary Ai friends. (at least the only fans workers are real...)
Doubt you are going to listen to Rogan in the common areas though... those places have standards..
There’s nothing wrong with what she did in writing this. I recall someone going on the attack/defence when Andrew Sullivan insulted her marriage, which was all so a reasonable response. Spouses need to defend each other and can decide for themselves the best way to do so.
What's the deal with the multiple time stamps on some comments?
"A baseball game that runs 3 hours averages out to around 18 minutes of actual action."
That's if you aren't counting pitches as action. But announcers usually call the pitches: "That was a cutter on the outside corner," etc. A game typically has around 250 pitches. At 5 seconds per pitch that's about 20 minutes right there.
Ramses was the last known ruler to have a successful middle-eastern policy. The secret to his success died with him and has not been replicated since.
"What's the deal with the multiple time stamps on some comments?"
Ghosts.
Some posts are more haunted than others.
"At 5 seconds per pitch..."
That would be one hell of a change-up. The number I found included time from the start of the pitching motion (win-up) until the play ends.
It's been done.
Stand by your man.
Ghosts chuckling appreciatively.
hey, my grandson has a kid named "Lestat" in his class.
“Ramses condoms, a historic American condom brand introduced in 1926 by Julius Schmid, Inc., named for Egypt's most imperialist pharaoh, carried a not so subtle message about virile men and their conquests.”
Boatbuilder said:
"The guy is probably taking a load of good-natured shit from his buddies. That's how he knows they are his buddies."
Your true friends stab you in the front.
I see it different. Not a big deal to highlight the efforts of the woman. But then they pivoted to denigrating the man for having such a wife. Without context.
They could have come at it from the "look at this guy with such a wife" but instead went right in to he would abuse her if she forgot the ketchup and such.
Not a sports fan and very, very unlikely to go to another game now I'm well over 20, but my sense from that is that as a man, don't pay good money to be a target just to see something you could watch on TV if you really wanted to see it.
Can't blame the announcers too much as they are just mindless chatterers. They aren't going to give much thought when they can go with the common denigrate men now prevailing in media of all types.
What kind of man can’t roll with light teasing?!
Sends his wife out to defend him humorlessly.
Least macho thing ever.
But: What makes you think she's been sent out by her man, to defend him? She has no agency herself? She's not allowed to react? Not taking a position either way, I saw the light humor in the little drama and thought it was funny in a positive and engaging way.
So let it be written ...
So let it be done ...
Ann... first, who died and left you a judge of macho?
Your boys are not, your husband walks dogs and cleans drains -- doesn't do real work.
There wife said the husband isn't want her writi g this... she wanted to correct the record.
We get it... meade is behind this post trying to show up a wo4king man who supports his family and provides for his wife.
Why are YOU smearing the guy though? Stop hating working men.
Aggies,
Anns mom couldn't keep porn out of her children's hands because her husband ruled.
Ann is not an independent woman...
We all saw that whe she changed so much for meade. Keep tipping so she can keep him.
For every murderous bitch, there are Millons women like this one. Perspective is important.
Read the article...
He could handle light te asing, even wrote that announcers to thank them for joking on him.
The wife is responding t9massholes like you invading their family space, issuing death threats, etc.
You wouldn't roll with that either. Reread the piece.
She wrote it for you.
Amen Candide.
It's sad, and shows you how isolated Annie is, that for all her years living in. The Midwest, she never met one of them...
So much money, and so culturally poor. At least neade buys toys with the pension dollars.
If you actually read the post you linked, you’d see that it is she who is bothered - she said her husband is rolling with it, laughing about it. He even sent the clip around to friends. And yet you’re mocking him as “least macho.” And somehow you think you know he sent her out to defend him - honestly that says more about you than about either of them. You also might have read that it is not the brief commentary on tv that bothered her so much as the many online comments, including emails, DMs and apparently even mean phone calls (telling her to leave him, and him to kill himself, for example). Maybe she signed up for the tv commentary, but she certainly didn’t sign up for that. I agree that posting about it is unlikely to make it better, but that’s a different argument entirely. But even if I wouldn’t recommend posting about it, I thought her post was genuine, thoughtful and honestly very lovely. The initial commentary was lighthearted - it’s too bad it couldn’t have stayed that way.
Kruk and Kuip are the best. Nothing eases the insanity of Bay Area traffic like listening to a Giants game.
"Sends his wife out to defend him humorlessly."
He probably didn't "send her out;" and he is undoubtedly getting even more teasing from his buddies about his wife defending him.
He can only respond: "You guys wish you had a wife like Erika. And all the great stuff she says about me is absolutely 100 percent true." Followed by a big shit-eating grin.
Ann Althouse said...
What kind of man can’t roll with light teasing?!
Sends his wife out to defend him humorlessly.
Least macho thing ever.
LOL!
That Splooge Stooge is going to get it coming and going.
Fuck men amrite? Some man pissed in Ann's wheaties a couple days ago.
Wait! I'm confused! What has this got to do with UNC's mascot again?
rcommal said...
For those who don't, for whatever reason, follow links, the woman left her seat because she needed the bathroom and took the baby to go ahead and change her diaper, as a matter of efficiency. On the way back, she texted her husband to ask if he wanted something to eat and included a screenshot of a menu. This is what set up the video that we saw.
This sounds perfectly reasonable.
But I am so shocked that social media is dogpiling the man. Nobody cares about this except a particular type of person. Read status conscious women that went to college.
Social media is just an environment built for women to show their ass to the world.
I think of the nemesis in Nacho Libre when I hear the name Ramses
Ramses
The people criticizing the man are just jealous. The strongest toughest people shopping in a grocery store is a pregnant woman pushing a stroller with all of her grocery stuffed underneath the baby.
Ann is showing you the insecure jealous bitch she has always been...
She knows that lady's man and marriage better than his wife and the mother of his children...
Ann is 0 for 2 on creating an inta t family with children. But boy can she tear down others who got it better than her. Lol
What will your legacy be... ecletic? Or hateful white bitch who elevated herself by running down others.
Boomers... they never learn.
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