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Title: Tweet Gets Cincinnati Reds Brandon Phillips to Attend Little League Game
Post by: BlueStateSaint on May 20, 2011, 01:37:27 PM
Every now and then, someone remembers the little guys.  Mega kudos to Brandon Phillips for this.

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Tweet Gets Cincinnati Reds Brandon Phillips to Attend Little League Game

Published May 20, 2011
| FoxNews.com


One Ohio little leaguer got a big league surprise during his game.

Cincinnati Reds All-Star Brandon Phillips showed up to a little league baseball game Thursday night after 14-year-old Connor Echols tweeted him, asking him to come.

"I said, 'Let me think about this.' His game was at 6:15. When I got finished eating, it was like 6:10 and I thought, well shoot, I'm going to go to his game. I had nothing else to do. I thought, 'Let me go out and support the little man.' I went out there and he had a great game. I met all his teammates. I met everybody in the park. It was fun. I had a great time," Phillips told the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Echols was shocked seeing the Reds second baseman at the game.

"Never in a thousand years did I think he would come," he told the paper.

The rest of the story is here:

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/05/20/tweet-gets-cincinnati-reds-brandon-phillips-attend-little-league-game/?test=latestnews

And to think I forgot to draft him in our fantasy league. :banghead: :o

Again, mega kudos to Brandon Phillips. :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Tweet Gets Cincinnati Reds Brandon Phillips to Attend Little League Game
Post by: IassaFTots on May 20, 2011, 03:46:33 PM
How awesome is that?  What a cool, cool story!  Thanks for sharing!