I do believe in Karma. IF YOU DO SOMETHING THAT IS RIGHT, THE POSITIVE ENERGY WILL COME BACK TO YOU.  I am deeply pleased and so very thrilled to announce that I received a happy ending for something that happened close to a year ago.  The baseball powers that be finally smiled down at me and let me have some peace and closure from a situation in which I felt I was HORRIBLY WRONGED. 

Here is a summary of the story (in case you didn’t know).  Early last June I caught a foul ball from Minnesota Twin Catcher Joe Mauer.  My bff and I had went to the game and had some really good seats near the action and about 20 rows back.  I held on to that ball with pride for all of about 3 minutes when security asked me to relinquish the ball so that they could give it to a boy that got whomped in the head.  The usher thought it was the ball I caught, BUT it really wasn’t .  Mauer kept fouling them back AFTER I caught the one I had and it was one of those balls (not MINE). I soooo did not want to give it up. The statistics of someone catching a ball is about 1-900 and I HAD one !! However, I am grown woman and I did the right thing — I GAVE UP THE BALL.  The Sox were losing up until that point and when I handed over the ball, their luck changed for the better.

Fast forward close to a year later– I am an educator for a living (I actually teach at a school very close to the park) and I agreed to mentor a future teaching in training for the second half of the year.  This future teacher in training (FTIT for short) heard me regurgitate the FOUL BALL STORY to a colleague of mine (who is another SOX FAN).  I also showed FTIT my blog entry from last year.  {During non instructional time of course !! }  Turns out that FTIT knows someone who works at US CELL and asked this person to get me a ball signed by Joe Mauer.  I laughed and methodically though – ha ha ha ha — Wow it would be something if this really happened !! TURNS OUT — it did happen.  I was outside on the playground monitoring the children for early morning duty when FTIT handed me a ball signed by Joe Mauer.  I gave FTIT a big high five and I felt like I was going to CRY, yes seriously CRY !!  I went to Grandstand that afternoon and got a beautiful ball holder for it.  I took a picture of it on my cellphone and that is now my cellphone wallpaper.  Yes , I am not challenged in judgement AND DO KNOW that  Joe Mauer isn’t a WHITE SOX PLAYER , but I am as thrilled as a chubby kid eating some brownies or a cougar finding a wonderful 21 year old boy toy.   Welcome to my happy ending !!!