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:
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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 last 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.
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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.
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