OT: L'il Bautista steals the show at Jays game

Relentless88 · Post #2 » by **Relentless88** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 10:01 pm

That's awesome!

mini · Post #3 » by **mini** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 11:24 pm

Is that a fan or a player's kid?

raps4life~ · Post #4 » by **raps4life~** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:17 am

Ya, is there any background on this?

Mike Hunt · Post #5 » by **Mike Hunt** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:22 am

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.

Lucky26 · Post #6 » by **Lucky26** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:51 pm

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.

SharoneWright · Post #7 » by **SharoneWright** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:58 pm

He's got the batting stance down cold.

Tuuk · Post #8 » by **Tuuk** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:42 am

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).