Big League Stew Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:29 am EST
World Series moment: Joba Chamberlain and his dad, Harlan
By 'Duk
NEW YORK — The throng of media members around the makeshift stage seemed impenetrable, but Harlan Chamberlain motored his way through all of the cameras and notepads anyways. Reaching a blue barrier, he stopped his scooter, strained to look over a crowd of world champion Yankee ballplayers and tried to get a glimpse of his son. When that proved useless, he simply resorted to his considerable vocal chords.
"Jaaaaaaahba!" he yelled. "Jaaaaaaaaaahba!"
Harlan said his son's name a few more times, then spied A.J. Burnett(notes) in the crowd.
"Burnett!" he said. "Can you get my son!"
Burnett could and a few moments later, Joba Chamberlain(notes) put down the giant blue Yankee flag he had been waving up on stage. The big Yankees pitcher hopped off the stage, disappeared from the view of the Fox cameras and quickly made a beeline for his father. When they came together, they wrapped each other in a huge rocking bearhug.
It wasn't long before both were crying.
They said the same thing over and over.
"We did it, dad," Joba said.
"We did it," Harlan said.
"We did it," Joba said.
"We did it," Harlan said.
And on and on. They held tight for almost a minute. Their eyes were red when they let go.
You see the Yankees' $200+ million payroll and it's easy to get cynical. Same goes for their $1.5 billion new stadium, the seats that cost more than the average mortgage payment, the steroid controversies involving some of their team members and all the endless hype and hooey about mystique, aura and all the Yankee legends and ghosts.
But then you see this very simple and very real scene of a 24-year-old pitcher sharing the hug of a lifetime with his dad and you remember that those father-son relationships — one of the only things that really matter — are at the very heart of this great game that we love.
The same dynamic was on display everywhere at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night. Way up in the upper deck, a dad tossed his little son into the air whenever Hideki Matsui(notes) came through (which was often). A mid-20s hipster sitting next to them made sure to ask one of my co-workers to snap a photo of he and his pops with his grainy cell phone camera. CC Sabathia(notes) did his postgame interviews with his little son on his shoulders the whole time.
And while all of those tiny little snapshots meant the world to those pictured in them, none of them seemed quite as remarkable to outsiders as the one taken by the Chamberlains.
Their story has been told often since Joba became a pitcher with the Yankees..........
.....muy enternecedora historia lograda por Duk, reportero de New York Times, titulada "World Series Moment", donde también se muestra la foto de padre e hijo, abrazados llorando de felicidad !!!! (11/5/09).
......La anterior nota trata de la Victoria del logro numero 27 de la Serie Mundial de la final de grandes ligas donde los "Yankees" de Nueva York se impusieron con 7 entradas, contra 3 de los "Philips" de Filadelfia, la historia continuaba narrando el gran amor y ternura que había entre Harlan y Joba Chamberlain, Padre e hijo, aquel muy dedicado a sus hijos a pesar de crecer con Polio lo cual lo limitaba, su esposa Madre de Joba esta sirviendo sentencia en la cárcel por 20 anos por un involucramiento en drogas...., Pero Harlan se dio modos para sacar adelante criar y educar a su hija e hijo (Joba), quien desde muy tierna edad practicaba el béisbol, y hablaba con su Padre sobre llegar el a ser un gran jugador, y luego cuando se le dio la oportunidad de jugar por los Yanquis, no había otro dialogo entre ambos que el de llegar a la Serie Mundial de las Grandes Ligas, y miren que lo consiguieron, ni bien terminado el encuentro ambos corrieron al encuentro...por eso ese grito de ambos como lo dice el autor de esta nota ... We did it Dad !!!!.yeeeees..... "We did it", mientras se abrazaban llorando de alegría uno le decía " lo hicimos Papa"!!!! y el otro contestaba Siiiii.....lo hicimos!!!! y así varias veces, no es para menos semejante logro, 27 veces ganarlo, no hay otro equipo que haya llegado ni a la mitad de ese record, Los Yanquis tiene una planilla de 200 millones de dolares en salarios y un estadio recién estrenado por un valor de 1,5 BILLONES de dolares, y quien tenga un abono debe pagar mas que la hipoteca mensual de su casa.
Joba es lanzador, aunque el designado fue A. Pettitte, para los Yankis en el otro equipo en el montículo estaba como lanzador Pedro Martines, quien fue el perdedor, entre los Philips y los Yanquis me parece que hay algo mas de media docena de peloteros latinos, destacándose Aley Rodriguez en los Yanquis, y Martines en los de Filadelfia, también hay un jugador Japones en los de Nueva York. el bateador Matsui, y es la primera vez que un Japones gana la Serie..... y bueno Felicidades Nueva York, Felicidades YANKEES.
Rodo Vera.
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