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Hello Metro family and friends! Thank you for reading and supporting the McCarty Metro again this month.

Margaret and I had a fabulous time at the Rzepka family reunion in Cross Village in Northern Michigan this past month with her extended family. We also got to spend it with Austin, Kristina, Brad, Olivia, and Gray which made it all the more special. Thank you Marianne for arranging everything. It was great seeing the cousins, inlaws, nephews and nieces which we hadn't seen in years.

Our 12th annual McCarty Metro NFL Pigskin Pickem game starts this month. It only takes a couple minutes each week to make your picks with us. It is super easy to play, and helps the NFL season be a little more exciting (especially here in Detroit). Please consider playing. You don't have to know point spreads or anything like that. Just pick who you think will win the games in front of you. I am really hoping this is the biggest one yet. After all... The more, the merrier!

The McCarty Metro will be back again next month for our big Shock-tober edition. I really could use the help with articles for that issue. If you can help in any way, send me an email to mccartymetro@gmail.com. In the meantime, the final thought I leave you this month is an article and video from the playoffs leading into the Little League World Series. I hope it moves you and that you enjoy it as much as I did.

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The Greatest Moment In The History Of Sportsmanship

It happened in the very first inning of the Southwest Region championship. Two boys who when they woke up this morning only cared about one thing… get to Williamsport. Suddenly everything changed, because in real life things happen just like that... things change in a heartbeat.

Kaiden Shelton is the big man on the powerful Pearland team, their big picture, their big hitter. Isaiah Jarvis is the shortstop on the scrappy Oklahoma team that had through incredible perseverance made it to the championship game . One team has already been to Williamsport, the other has never been.

The Pearland team scored 3 runs in the top of the first, but Oklahoma came right back at them in the bottom of the inning , they scored 2 runs and had a big rally going on, there was noise everywhere, coaches were yelling for the pitcher Shelton and the batter Jarvis to ”Battle” “win the battle.”

Then it happened, a twist of fate, Shelton lost control of a fastball and hit Jarvis right in the helmet, and Jarvis fell in a heap at home plate

Suddenly nobody was thinking about Williamsport anymore. With Isaiah laying there and coaches and medical staff rushing to his prone body, Shelton kind of circled around the area between home and the pitchers mound. The stadium was silent. Jarvis’s mom stood in the stands , one hand clasped to her face, the other to her heart. And every mom who has ever sent their boys into these games was right there with her.

The Pearland players took a knee, eventually so did Shelton. Seconds seemed like hours. On one knee, Shelton was totally alone with his thoughts. But going through his mind were the words of the umpire immediately after Jarvis had gone down. "Oh my God” the umpire had said.

Finally they helped Jarvis to his feet, on replay you could see how the ball had hit his helmet in a good spot, it got more helmet then anything, Jarvis had been more frightened then anything. He trotted down to first, but now the trouble was with Shelton.

Before that pitch he had only one thought - Battle... Win The Battle... the words of coaches... now the only words he could hear in his mind... were the words of the umpire: “Oh my God.”

And just like that he started to cry. He was standing on the mound crying, and nobody went to him, not his teammates, not his coaches. Then one person did go to him... Isaiah Jarvis left first base threw his helmet off, walked right to him and hugged him. That hug said... it’s okay. It was just what Shelton needed at that particular moment, I am sure his mom had wanted to rush out there and hug her boy, Isaiah took care of that for her, because Shelton was a big kid with a big heart and he didn’t want to hurt anybody, he didn’t want to hear an umpire say “Oh my God” over something he did. He was there to play baseball and make new friends, he hadn’t bargained for this...

The game resumed, somebody won, somebody lost, one team went to Williamsport, the other packed their bags for home, it will all be forgotten, but that moment of perfect sportsmanship will live for as long as there is human competition.

Before the tournament Isaiah Jarvis said his biggest dream was to make sports center. I think it’s going to happen.

His name is Isaiah and in the book of Isaiah there is a famous passage about coming quickly to the rescue “I will sustain you and I will rescue you.” It’s almost perfectly symbolic that a boy named Isaiah would come quickly to the rescue and do it when it was most needed.

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In case you want to see the video of this act of sportsmanship...

Baseball is just a kids game. Here's to realizing the true beauty behind sports...


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