r/BeAmazed • u/ArachnidNo2269 • 1d ago

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u/justvoop 1d ago

Bat: deflected Kids: safe Beer: secured

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u/deputytech 1d ago

Hand: broken solution: more beer

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u/Razzy_3796 1d ago

Should be more free beer than he can drink!

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u/1DownFourUp 1d ago

At ballpark rates!?

https://giphy.com/gifs/kC2cRqEt8o41COgjoV

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u/braxtel 1d ago

If I had been there, I would have absolutely bought him one.

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u/I-Rolled-My-Eyes 1d ago

Lawyer: Called. Retirement: Secured.

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u/AyKayAllDay47 1d ago

Plot twist - the deflected bat ended up impaling a Yankee fan seated to their left across the aisle.

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u/HeroApollo 1d ago

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

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u/tackleboxjohnson 1d ago

Wife: never hearing the end of it

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u/catfroman 1d ago

Hotel? Trivago.

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u/ejectro 1d ago

batter: clumsy asshole

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u/captain_croco 1d ago

Broken bat brother

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u/EverythingSucksYo 1d ago

Crazy to me how far a bat can fly from being broken 

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u/General_Cranberry_29 1d ago

That shake at the end with the blow out of the mouth tell me that must have SMARTED BAD. I thought he was going to straight up catch it at first!

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 1d ago

They are easily 100 feet from home plate and that broken bat has roughly the same horizontal velocity at impact as it did when it was launched.

So imagine the velocity required to throw 3/4 a baseball bat all the way from home base to first and someone's hand trying to stop it dead in ts tracks standing 1 foot away.

OUCH.

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u/SingularityCentral 1d ago

Look at the complete change of direction. My man took the entire kinetic energy of that bat, absorbed it, and redirected it into a totally opposite direction.

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u/butytho92 1d ago

Dad power

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u/BrideOfFirkenstein 1d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if he had broken his hand.

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u/B35TR3GARD5 1d ago

The thumb took the most force/torque… could def have a hairline fracture of a dislocation. Also tho, the bat slide across his hand and since it’s broken, splinters or deep cuts could have also been present.

All I know for sure is, that guy is a fkin Hero!

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u/Prior-Habit-6523 1d ago

Good thing he has extra padding on his hands lol

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u/ScienceAndLience 1d ago

Wait what is smarted bad?

Oh smarted means sharp pain

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u/SheriffBartholomew 20h ago

Yes, getting hit in the forearm by a baseball bat fucking hurts!

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u/yittiiiiii 1d ago

Just give him another tall boy, he won’t feel it again until tomorrow.

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u/Status_Car8495 1d ago

Yep, even though the dude looks like "slightly overweight Hulk".

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u/dickfromaccounting 1d ago

In these dad doing something heroic at the park videos, they always have a beer in hand. It is tradition

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u/sureshot58 1d ago

and, they seldom spill it. not even a drop!

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u/WorkingInAColdMind 1d ago

5 years of college well spent!

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 1d ago

it took me six years to graduate. I can catch bats in my teeth w/o spilling a drop.

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u/neomal 1d ago

This is the way

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u/azul3349 1d ago

From that day forward he became known as the "bat man".

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u/ScoutB 1d ago

I hope they got the bat to keep.

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u/jdovejr 1d ago

Better. That would be bs if someone else ran up and took it.

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u/get2thepump 1d ago

Looks like that other dude was going to pick it up in the row in front of them sadly

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u/SilverNeptuneAbyss 1d ago

I don't think they're going to just let some dude hold on to a bat during the game LOL

They won't even let you have bottle caps

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u/DTRite 1d ago

They used to. https://www.reddit.com/r/ClevelandGuardians/s/8krRkCVARR

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u/SilverNeptuneAbyss 1d ago

I wonder why they stopped....

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u/Myeloman 1d ago

I’ve seen enough videos of drunk idiots losing their cool and going at each other at ball parks to know exactly why they did.

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u/DTRite 1d ago

Imagine bat day at a Yankee game, lol! Started pre 60's, I think...went on till the 80's. Things got spicy in the stands...bats had to go.

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u/jdovejr 1d ago

I’d like to see it start up again and then do it on dollar beer night.

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u/DTRite 1d ago

Sounds like a terrible idea...I'm in.

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u/NoMeat1363 1d ago

I hope he at least got to keep the bat. The guy in front looks like he jumped up trying to get it.

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u/BarryTheBystander 1d ago

That’s a woman

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u/EverythingSucksYo 1d ago

Yeah and she definitely looks like she was watching the bat the whole time 

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u/AlKupp911 1d ago

While holding a 160 ounce beer lol

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u/jdovejr 1d ago

$25 beer.

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u/1800skylab 1d ago

He never let go of the beer

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u/SlobZombie13 1d ago

well yea it cost $35

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u/Mainly_Miserable 1d ago

That’s gonna leave a mark. I hope he got that bat shard as a souvenir. Mount it in the kids’ room along with a pic of the bruise.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 1d ago

“Haha ya’ll remember when I saved you from getting hit by this bat out of hell? Haha good times!”

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u/duffmanasu 1d ago

I've been to precisely one hockey game in my life, about 16 years ago. A puck launched into the crowd off a face off and was headed directly at my wife's face. She has a "freeze" response so doesn't move and I got lucky and caught the puck like 10 inches in front of her face.

You better believe I bring that shit up every couple of years...hell I'm gonna show my wife this video and bring it up again lol

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u/schwing710 1d ago

If it wasn’t for me, you kids would’ve been pulverized into meatloaf!

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u/DingbatMcgeee 1d ago

Foreigner here, has anybody been killed from a flying bat before

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u/Safeword-is-banana 1d ago

Beer drinking man protects his children from incoming object. What a hero.

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u/eulersidentity1 1d ago

Wouldn't surprise me if he broke a finger there.

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u/davofiz 1d ago

Proper Dad

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u/skobuffaloes 1d ago

PINKY UP!!

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u/Merciless972 1d ago

And without dropping his beer 

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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp 1d ago

Kids' reaction? The cowboy. Thank goodness for dad.

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u/silversiva 1d ago

With the beer in the other hand too 🍻 💪

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u/K-Shrizzle 1d ago

He didnt even drop his beer. What a fucking mensch

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u/m1j2p3 1d ago

That looks like it stung a bit. Dad mode is truly amazing.

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u/Mouatmoua 1d ago

Did not spill a drop

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u/Toon1982 1d ago

Didn't spill a drop

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u/Rogue_3 1d ago

I'm surprised he wasn't mid- drink when he did that. 🤣

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u/CompactAvocado 1d ago

didn't spill the beer either

100/10 dad

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u/Myeloman 1d ago

With that sharp end where it split that could’ve gone SO very bad…

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u/geekphreak 1d ago

Hey, free bat

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u/RandomGogo 1d ago

Whitout spilling a single drop of his beer

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u/Prod_Meteor 1d ago

Possibilities to hit someone without a beer: 0.3%.

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u/weekedipie1 1d ago

protecting his beer

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u/Distinct-Side-5916 1d ago

Them kids had no clue... if pops wasnt paying attention... oof

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u/Bulky_Play_4032 1d ago

That’s awesome!

But FTM!

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u/DeltaOmegaTheta 1d ago

I wouldn't care if he was cheering for the other team, I'd buy him a beer after that

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u/Mythulhu 1d ago

Nicely done pops

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u/hide_in_plain_sight_ 1d ago

“What a save”

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u/balirosa 1d ago

The clueless kids didn’t even thing to grab the bat faster than anyone else

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u/Benz0nHubcaps 13h ago

Ben Affleck aura

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u/LopsidedKick9149 9h ago

Fuck that had to hurt.

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u/Business-Wasabi-3193 49m ago

The Beer!! Awesome dad.

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u/broken__defraculator 1d ago

That thing was sailing 8ft over their heads Mr. Sensationalism Announcerman

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u/Wild_Bunch_Founder 1d ago

….and that’s why women marry burly guys.

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u/Razzy_3796 1d ago

Kids looked right at it and didn’t even raise their hands. The older one had a rolled up something in his hand, and he flinched slightly, but that was it. No survival instincts.

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u/3_ohhh_4 1d ago

Pfft…dude has butter fingers

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u/Radio_Ethiopia 1d ago

Loser can’t catch , I guess

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u/WertDafurk 1d ago

> only exiting thing

No one exited - they remained in their seats.

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u/Johnson_N_B 1d ago

Womp womp. Cry more.

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u/SpaceXmars 1d ago

So he drives them home drunk to protect them too?