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That's awesome!

Is that a fan or a player's kid?

Ya, is there any background on this?

His intro said the kid wore the costume on Halloween. It also said that because of a good report card, his parents brought him to the park a while back. It mentioned that his costume was such a hit that he was featured in his local newspaper.

Bautista actually linked a video of the opening pitch on twitter.

Cameras kept cutting to him in the stands a while back and front Office was blown away so much that they got a hold of his mom and told her they wanted him back for the first pitch and other stuff.

The best part is hearing this kid talk, if you watched Connected that day, anyone have footage of that. You know how most kids a casual fans and can't really talk in front of strangers/cameras? Not this kid, he was so pumped to take that first pitch I thought they would let him start.

I remember Lawrie went to one of these Jr. Jays thing when he was younger. Look out, future Bautista in the making,lol.

He's got the batting stance down cold.

raps4life~ wrote:Ya, is there any background on this?

He's from Acton, Ontario... which is approximately an hour outside Toronto. He was front page in the local newspaper here, I guess he originally dressed up like this for Halloween as someone else posted. He met Jose Bautista after the game and Jose gave him two batting gloves and two signed balls. He'll be back on July 30th, or 31st (I forget) when the Jays play Texas because it's his Dad's birthday (Dad is a huge Jays fan and obviously passed this onto the kid).