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u/natch44 Sep 16 '21
Found this gem in my Snapchat memories from 5 years ago if anyone was curious about the source. So whatever Red Sox game was September 16, 2016.
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u/chrisnavillus Sep 16 '21
Because everyone else flinches so hard you think he took it in the dome the first fifteen times you watch then you remember baseball has a net and this man must just be a complete psychopath or he’s asleep.
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u/monkeyclawattack Sep 16 '21
or drunk
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u/Kshurt52 Sep 16 '21
That’s a local business man Drinkwater. He’s actually sober. Used to go to my buddies bar and brag about his season tickets and spend Jack shit
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u/BassilsBest Sep 17 '21
Is this a joke? About a man named Drinkwater, who doesn’t spend money at bars.
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u/Holmgeir Sep 17 '21
I was able to find two businesses with Drinkwater names relevant to the baseball team's location.
Edit: PS he looka like when George Lucas bumped Han Solo over with CGI when he made Greedo shoot.
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u/lpreams Sep 17 '21
Dennis Drinkwater is most widely recognized as a Boston Red Sox super fan. His company has advertisements all over Fenway, and he shows up to every game and sits directly behind home plate in the stands. Though there is a screen in front of the seats behind home plate to block foul balls, people still flinch or duck instinctively when stray balls come flying at them. However, Dennis Drinkwater never does, and the cameras often catch him sitting, calmly, as the balls seem to be flying directly at his face. He's been in the same seat for every home game since 2003.
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u/ChetSteadman31 Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21
That’s Dennis Drinkwater, owns Giant Glass (great jingle)! This is fairly common, on hits that are walk off wins for the Red Sox you can find clips of him leaving as it just happens to avoid crowd traffic
Edit: gingle to jingle. I was lost in the alliteration
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u/Relative-Question731 Sep 16 '21
Or very aware that
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u/pat_the_bat_316 Sep 16 '21
You mean 10-15 inches? Because the net at a baseball game is most certainly not 10-15 feet in front of the front row. It's right up against/on top of that little wall.
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u/pothosphysics Sep 17 '21
When a Sox hitter pumps one out of the park, Drinkwater throws up the
touchdown arms before anyone, including the hitter, has a clue of what
happened. When foul balls dart into the screen in front of his section,
most fans duck for cover, while Drinkwater NEVER flinches.Article from 2016 'bout him: https://dirtywatermedia.com/where-has-drinkwater-gone/
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u/desertfox314 Sep 17 '21
Bro wtf I thought that mention of Drinkwater higher was a joke!
Is this article real?
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u/arealhumannotabot Sep 16 '21
Look at how he looks up and smiles before it happens.
He made it do that. That mf'er willed it...
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u/Brewster101 Sep 16 '21
Or he's been to thousands of these games in those seats.
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u/bthompson04 Sep 17 '21
Yup, most likely the answer. I’ve spent so much time in hockey rinks over the past 30 years that a puck fired off the glass when I’m right next to it on the other side barely registers anymore. A person that’s newer will undoubtedly jump at the sound.
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u/chrisnavillus Sep 17 '21
His smirk before contact could indicate he just saw the pitch and he’s used to it from sitting back there a lot. That makes sense.
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u/ohio_guy_2020 Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21
Reminds of Happy Gilmore when he stepped into the batting cage and just took fastballs to the face.
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u/PENGAmurungu Sep 17 '21
I'm not American and didn't know baseball had a net so I was clueless until I read OP's explanation lmao
I also thought it was actually Jerry SpringerMaybe I'm gullible
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u/jellando Sep 16 '21
Asleep is the proper way to watch baseball.
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u/Usergnome_Checks_0ut Sep 16 '21 edited Sep 17 '21
I was at a game one time and someone got clocked in the head, blood everywhere. It took them ages to sort the person out and in the end they still looked pretty fucked up and we’re wheeled outta there in a wheelchair. Honestly, I don’t know if they were even alive or if they just did all that for show.
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u/AdOriginal6110 Sep 17 '21
Saw someone get hit in the mouth with a puck at a hockey game heard the impact 2 sections away it's been 25 years still makes me cringe stretcher carried out they were moving so alive bloody as well
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u/chrisnavillus Sep 17 '21
I was standing by a lady who got domed by a wayward 3 wood on a Par 5 at the Rocket Mortgage 2 years ago. Blood everywhere, she screamed and cried so much. It was awful, the ball actually bounced off her head back into the fairway and my dude just signed a golf glove for her, knocked it on the green and made birdie. Pro, shit.
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u/yovkov Sep 16 '21
If there's a net, how does his hair move when the ball hits?
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u/arealhumannotabot Sep 16 '21
I don’t think is his hair moving. Probably the net, as the ball is moving pretty fast.
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It's cool how the distortion from the net makes it look like his hair moves from the ball hitting his head. I think that's what makes it look like it really does hit him.
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u/reataurant-lifer1745 Sep 16 '21
That’s Dennis Drinkwater. He is at virtually every Red Sox game in that same seat. This isn’t even the best story about him. As an avid Red Sox fan, it’s absolutely hilarious to watch just how quickly he vacates his seat to leave the moment a game ends. Last pitch of a no hitter, he’s already back turned and running before the ump can even finish the out call. Walk off homer, he’s in the parking lot before the ball lands. It’s glorious.
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u/Firebird22x Sep 16 '21
My dad and I have watched Red Sox games since 2003 and at least since 2007 any game we’ve watched that he’s not there were both like oh no! What happened? Is he alive?? Then the next game he’s back it’s like oh phew!
I had no clue who he was, but he’s always behind the plate and it’s a fun part of the game seeing he’s still alive and coming back day after day, year after year.
Him leaving on the last pitch out is always funny to watch. His reaction time is outstanding, on a walkoff homerun he’s leaving his seat before the people around him even react sometimes.
It’s even better on a blown save too when you don’t see him on the second out, but he’s back in the top of the 10th
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u/Sr_Laowai Sep 16 '21
Him leaving on the last pitch out is always funny to watch.
Okay well now I just wanna see some clips.
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u/Highpothetically Sep 17 '21
Game 2 of the 2007 ALDS against the Angels. Manny Ramirez hit a majestic walk-off home run, and Drinkwater was at the end of the row by the time the ball cleared the Green Monster. This one is particularly memorable because while Drinkwater was running for the exit, Manny and the crowd were captured celebrating the win in one of my all-time favorite baseball photos.
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u/DarkDystopia Sep 17 '21
He's seen at 0:18 in the YT video, for those wondering. The guy in blue. He bolted man, lmao
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Sep 17 '21
That’s Dennis Drinkwater. He is at virtually every Red Sox game in that same seat.
This is so weird. The Toronto Blue Jays also have a senior who sits in the same seat behind home plate every game and famously also does not flinch at foul balls. But nobody knows her real name.
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Sep 17 '21
There’s a few teams that have home town characters that you can always find behind the plate. Marlins Man, who is like some douche rich lawyer in Miami and thinks he has some say in the team which is hilarious. And Front Row Amy in Milwaukee.
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u/stew82 Sep 17 '21
My father is the same way! He knows the shady lot that’s cheap and gets you back to the highway quick. I always had to be ready to run to the car in the 9th. Sometimes, I swear he wasn’t even looking back to see if I was keeping up. Baltimore in the 90’s at 10 years old was crazy.
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u/Son_o_Liberty1776 Sep 16 '21
Owner of Giant Glass.
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u/reataurant-lifer1745 Sep 16 '21
Damn you. Just because you got that stuck in my head…
1 877 kars for kids. K A R S kars for kids
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u/PM_ME_A_EM_MP Sep 16 '21
I do the same thing with my season tickets. End game ceremonies are always the same and there is traffic to beat!
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u/YoYoMoMa Sep 17 '21
The thing is, do you ever actually beat the traffic?
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u/PM_ME_A_EM_MP Sep 17 '21
Yea I do, but I'm going to a smaller stadium that is 18k max (usually 16kish), park 1/2 mile away on the street instead of the lots, and take a back road instead of trying to get to the highway on ramp nearest the stadium.
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u/Bufalohotsauce Sep 17 '21
Back when the Mariners sucked even more than they do now, The Kingdome would generally clear out at the 7th inning stretch, because they’d usually be down by 10, and that’s when they quit serving beer. My dad always made us finish our snacks and pop by the 6th inning, so we could beat the rush.
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u/william-taylor Sep 17 '21
It makes a lot of sense that he didn’t even flinch if he’s in that seat every game.
My favorite part is how he starts smiling even before the pitch passes the backstop and doesn’t stop the whole way through
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u/Reginald_Dingleberry Sep 16 '21
Nothing can interrupt the man when he’s having his final thoughts
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u/woodenman22 Sep 16 '21
Every time I see this guy not react like this (and he’s at virtually every Fenway game) I am impressed, but also feel like out in the real world if someone walked over to him and threw something at his face he’d just let it hit him.
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Sep 16 '21
I bet he's been to so many games in the front row, that might not be his first time in the line of fire.
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u/DonaldTrumpsPilot Sep 17 '21
You would be correct. That will always be Dennis Drinkwater’s seat
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u/Reacher-Said-N0thing Sep 17 '21
See also: Toronto's "Home Plate Lady": https://gfycat.com/gloomyinfatuatedequestrian
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u/Nimzles Sep 17 '21
Dude, this is somehow even better. It makes it look like the yawning lady straight up birdo's him.
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Sep 17 '21
"DRATS, my only weakness: baseballs dropped on my head. I must sleep."
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u/DogsOutTheWindow Sep 17 '21
Holy shit mate, damn near in tears with your comment. Haven’t laughed that hard maybe all year.
E: thank you!
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u/JuiceMan223 Sep 16 '21
Is it a dummy? His hair even moves like he was hit. Nerves of steel!
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Sep 17 '21
There’s a net there. I think that’s just the blur of the ball going upwards.
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u/Darius_Kel Sep 16 '21
After years of getting chairs thrown at him, Jerry has no fears of projectiles.
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u/thegalwayseoige Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21
No one is going to point out that the guy a few seats above Drinkwater looks like he literally swallows the ball whole?
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u/ebobbumman Sep 17 '21
When I was like 12 I got hit with a foul ball at the only professional baseball game I've ever attended. It rolled down a couple rows and somebody took it. I was taken to a clinic in the stadium and the people there were outraged on my behalf, and they went and got me another game ball to take home.
Don't have that ball anymore, and I'm still skittish even at kids softball games, but it's a good story so I guess it evens out.
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u/Dr_Snoop54 Sep 17 '21
As a Red Sox fan my whole life, I been watching this dude on tv at games since at least 04 and been calling him Jerry Springer since 04. The fact that other people think this is friggin great hahah
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u/AnnoyedYamcha Sep 17 '21
He is just trying to toughen up before next years hockey try outs
"Oh, god that hurt a little, but im all right."
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u/maggos Sep 17 '21
There’s a video of E40 in the same situation, but he’s drunk or high and lifts his glove to catch the ball like 3 seconds late.
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u/mike_robbo_otr Sep 17 '21
It looks like yawning woman 2 rows behind Dopple Springer swallowed the ball.
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u/KnowYourRole96 Sep 17 '21
I am so happy about this lol I’m a huge Red Sox fan and have been watching them every game since I was about 6 years old . This guy has the same Fenway seat every home game ( think he owns a wealthy company ) , anyways even at 6 years I would call this guy Jerry Springer and it would make my dad laugh
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Sep 16 '21
He’s still so mad about that call girls check bouncing that a 90mph baseball to the forehead is very much invited.
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u/theghostremains Sep 16 '21
It even looks like he moves his head towards the ball and a little hair gets flipped up on the smack.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit Sep 17 '21
Keith Olbermann's mom did even better. Although she didn't have a net.
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Sep 17 '21
It actually looks like he slightly moves his head towards the path of the ball just before it hits the net. Man has a death wish.
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u/Tolar01 Sep 17 '21
It's not him, you can clearly see hair movement when ball hits it. Real JS hair's wouldn't flinch
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u/BoneTugsNHarmony Sep 17 '21
Looks like John Carmack who calculated the speed and trajectory 2 minutes prior
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u/Strong-Amphibian-143 Sep 17 '21
He’s been dodging hoes and pimps for decades. A little ball ain’t nothing
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u/Demonyx12 Sep 17 '21
It looks like his hair moves from the impact of the ball? Wtf is happening there?
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Sep 17 '21
I feel like he swayed a little to the left side of the frame before remembering there is a net that will hopefully catch the ball
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u/VonBoski Sep 17 '21
There’s an old lady who does the same in Toronto. If you’re always behind the plate I’d imagine you’d get numb to it relatively quick
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u/AussieMilk Sep 17 '21
I thought there could be a net or glass protecting his noggin, but the way his hair moves makes me think...Huh?
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u/Unknown-error404 Sep 17 '21
The first time I saw this I thought it literally hit him in the forehead because it looks like his hair moves
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u/CaucasianBoi Sep 17 '21
Me in fifth grade: sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
Their words: ^
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u/ledfox Sep 17 '21
Oh I'm so relieved there was a net.
I thought this guy auto-parried the shit out of that ball.
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u/2Botter2Loop Sep 16 '21
OP's explanation:
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