Yanks-Sox rivalry spills into booth with surprise visit from dad

n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”sort”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”wealthy”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content material”:””And [my dad’s] like, ‘No, it’s once in a lifetime, Red Sox-Yankees — Michelle [my mom], you’ve gotta take him,'” Michael remembered. “So we end up going to the game. My mom’s a massive Yankees fan and her favorite Yankee ever is Mariano Rivera. And … we watched the Yankees win and Mariano closed it out, and I’m a little 8-year-old kid sitting in the stands.”nnYou can infer from that what occurred subsequent. Michael had $20 his dad had given him to purchase a memento, and when Jim noticed his son afterward, the boy was carrying a Yankees cap.nnLittle did they know that 20 years later, they’d be laughing about that second as Michael wore one other Yankees cap — this one a little bit larger and with a contact of blue in celebration of Father’s Day — in the exact same park during which he fell in love with the Yanks.nnThis time, although, Michael wasn’t sitting within the stands. He was within the Yankees’ bullpen, a vantage level from which he may see his dad, beaming with delight, within the broadcast sales space.nn”Mikey, you know how proud I am of you,” Jim mentioned. “It’s more than just baseball, my friend.””,”sort”:”textual content”}],”contentType”:”news”,”subHeadline”:null,”abstract”:””Hey, so I heard your dad was a big Red Sox fan, and you were too, until you were about 8 years old. What happened?”nThat was the query Jim King put to his son, Yankees reliever Michael King, in a shock Father’s Day phase from the ESPN broadcast sales space”,”tagline({“formatString”:”none”})”:null,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”InternalTag”,”slug”:”storytype-article”,”title”:”Article”,”type”:”article”},{“__typename”:”ContributorTag”,”slug”:”manny-randhawa”,”title”:”Manny Randhawa”,”type”:”contributor”},{“__typename”:”TeamTag”,”slug”:”teamid-147″,”title”:”New York Yankees”,”team”:{“__ref”:”Team:147″},”type”:”team”},{“__typename”:”GameTag”,”slug”:”gamepk-717715″,”title”:”2023/06/18 nyy@bos”,”type”:”game”},{“__typename”:”PersonTag”,”slug”:”playerid-650633″,”title”:”Michael King”,”person”:{“__ref”:”Person:650633″},”type”:”player”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”apple-news”,”title”:”Apple News”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”offbeat”,”title”:”offbeat”,”type”:”taxonomy”}],”sort”:”story”,”thumbnail”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/picture/add/{formatInstructions}/mlb/tjqoktpyrafmmyzmazru”,”title”:”Michael King’s dad surprises him in ESPN sales space”}},”Team:147″:{“__typename”:”Team”,”id”:147},”Person:650633″:{“__typename”:”Person”,”id”:650633}}}
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