FLICK life: Foul is Fair

The FLICKsport life is really pretty simple. It's about doing it right in the right place at the right time.

For example, on Monday, September 17, dp attended the Washington Nationals v. New York Mets baseball game at soon-to-be-defunct RFK Stadium. Sitting in his customary seats behind homeplate, dp scrambled over a few rows of empty seats to make a backhanded snag of an 8th inning foul ball, taking care not to spill a single drop of beer in the pursuit. dp was of course thrilled to have finally nabbed a baseball after 20 foul-free years attending hundreds of ballgames at dozens of stadiums across the country.

However, dp was not alone in tracking the foul, as a young boy in a Nats jersey had raced to the spot in the aisle where the ball would have trickled down if not for dp's deftness. Looking first at his own half-full beer and then at the boy's empty baseball glove, dp knew how to do it right.

So with a flick of the wrist, dp dropped the ball down into the boy's glove.

The unassisted Double Player always lends a helping hand.

Further, the Dharma Prince knows that what goes around comes around, just as FLICKsters know to just let it go. It will come back.

And of course it did on that glorious late summer night: a cameraman captured the whole moment for display on the scoreboard. The ensuing roar from the appreciative crowd gave dp an even better thrill than catching the ball.

FLICK. Just let it go.