Justin UPton

20 years old and bad as hell... They talk about this Right Fielder as being something extremely special. They called him up from the Minors when was 19, and he was tearing it up. He's batting cleanup in one of the best offensive teams in the Majors. They say he has all the tools to become on of the best in baseball, they also say he could be one of the greatest of all time.

Pretty big compliments for a 20 year old who is still trying to find his identity. He's my favorite player on my favorite team. Which is awesome to have someone like that playing for your team. He also hit a homerun in the day game today that I went to with my brother. Which is awesome. But what puts the second cherry on my double scoop of awesome sundae, he hit a homerun.... and I caught the ball. Probability of that happening has to be a 1000 to one.

Had I chosen to go with my brother to get ice cream during the 7th inning stretch I would have missed that missle aimed at my chest. I couldn't believe it when the ball was coming at me, I got scared for my safety first because that kid has crazy homerun power. I also didn't want to embarrass myself in front of the entire stadium. I can't really call what happened, other than me getting hit in the shoulder with the ball and somehow catching it on the rebound. I had people blowing up my fone after they saw me.

One of my friends told me it was one of the funniest things he'd ever seen me do because my facial reaction when the ball came at me; deer in headlights... I saw the replay on the news and it happened so quick that all you see is my cat-like reflexes on me catching the ball. People around me were so envious, some offered to buy it off me because they knew that it is going to be worth a lot some day. That was annoying because in that moment, I knew that ball was meant for me. It sounds ridiculous, but its a microcosm of my ever-progressive philosophy. I knew it was meant for me and thats it.

After all the good things that transpired on this day, coolest part is that I'm getting the ball autographed by him and its being mailed to me!!

As a Ice Cube would say, today was a good day... I can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store. I'll have the video up once I get the FoxSports replay in slow-mo. The best part was the guy on the radio broadcast was crackin on me. 'The guy is going to be feeling that one for a while, it looks like he messed up his shoulder, but he appears to be ok'

:)