Astros Fan Says If George Springer Hits A Home Run, He'll Buy Beers For Everyone In His Section. George Springer Delivered A Home Run, The Hero Fan Delivered $300+ Of Beer
Houston Chronicle- As the Cleveland Indians were taking the field for the bottom of the fifth inning, Eddie Flores made a prediction to his section of the Crawford Boxes: George Springer is leading off this inning with a home run, and when he does everyone’s getting a free beer.
On a full count, Springer proved Flores to be clairvoyant, blasting a home run just to the right of the Crawford Boxes, about 40 yards away from Flores’ seat in Section 104 to give the Astros a 3-0 lead over the Indians in Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
Not only is Flores prescient, but he’s also a man of his word. He immediately got a beer vendor to his seat – with a little help from his section mates – and bought more than $300 worth of beer.
God damn that is an awesome move. There are a few things in life I have always wanted to do more than buy a round for the bar. Being a poor idiot that went from post-college living to saving for a wedding to saving for a house to having two kids to being a professional smut blogger has never allowed me to cross off that line on the ol’ Bucket List. But I know/hope it will happen some day because at some point being able to say I bought a round for a packed bar will outweigh the feeling I will have in the pit of my stomach as I sign the receipt sentencing me to another mortgage.
However Eddie Flores got to live out that dream after George Springer put Eddie’s ass in the jackpot, which I have to respect because buying a round of beers for your ENTIRE section at a baseball stadium is about equal to hitting the Bankrupt spot on Wheel of Fortune. If I bought beers at a bar, it would likely be at a cheap dive bar and it would definitely be nothing but domestic drafts. Poor Eddie had to deal with the low prices of Major League Baseball owners that are always looking for a new way to get in your pockets.
Luckily Eddie didn’t have to buy a beer for every single person in his section because the idiots at Minute Maid somehow didn’t have enough beer during a goddamn playoff game.
The entire section didn’t actually get beer, because the vendor only had so much beer with him, but everyone in rows two through nine got a beer from Flores, if they wanted one.
Huge win for our pal Eddie. Because there is no way he could have backed down once he said he was going to buy beer for everyone. You can’t mess with juju during the baseball playoffs. Every pitch, hit, and ball in fair play is a goddamn pressure cooker that grinds your nerves into dust and your fellow fans are the only support group you have during that time. Indian giving (not sure we can say that in 2018) Welching (not sure we can say that either because I don’t know what a Welch is) Breaking a promise of free beers would be like selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees for No No Nanette startup money and slaughtering a goat named Murphy all in one, which is pretty much juju suicide. So shout out to Eddie for coming up just as big as George Springer did, if not bigger.