"The Wish Factor"

"I've been waiting for this all week bruh!"

Have you ever been to a little league game and all of a sudden parents get into it and start fighting? Doesn't matter what the sport is you can pick your poison, football, baseball, basketball or track it's going down. The crazy thing about it is that the confrontation is never about the game itself. It typically only happens in the suburbs not down in the hood. It's a phenomenon that I hadn't seen growing up in Gary, In, one of the most dangerous cities in America. It wasn't until I moved to the suburbs, if you will, that I began to see this play out. Why is that?

Like I always say, the best place to be from is the ghetto because if you can survive there you can survive anywhere in the world. One thing you learn early on growing up around aggressive and violent people is how to treat folks. Learning how to talk to people can be the difference between life and death in the hood bruh.

When parents get into it at these games it has nothing to do with the game itself. It has everything to do with one or both of them being disrespectful. They get all fired up about the game and their adrenaline is moving 100mph and then someone pops off at the mouth and there it goes. Folks that grew up in the suburbs have no idea what could potentially happen to them for saying the wrong thing to someone. So out of ignorance they think that they can say anything to anyone. 

The reality of the situation is that folks that grew up in the hood understand full well what the rules are for being disrespectful to others. They understand that there are folks in this world that could care less about going to jail. That person has been in and out of jail his or her entire life and all of their friends are in the pen too. There are cats out here that already have several felonies that can't work anyway. So they are waiting for you to say something crazy to them. It's called having The Wish Factor. Their always saying,  "I wish somebody would say something crazy to me?" To go to jail at this point means absolutely nothing to them.

 So to say something sideways to a cat that you've never seen or barely know can literally cost you your life bruh, even at a little league baseball game. However, folks that grew up in the suburbs don't understand that so that's why they keep doing it. Lucky for them the guy they got into it with grew up in the suburbs too and has something to lose. See when a person has a family and a really good job they'll show some restraint even in the mist of arguing at the field. They know just how far to take but the guy with a felony and no job will go all the way to home plate on you.

 I remember the first time I saw a parent yell at someone else's kid on the field in the suburbs. I got up and moved because I just knew that the kids parent was on his way over to tap him up. Surprisingly to me, nothing happened. I couldn't believe it. It was like being in the twilight zone. 

 Here is my public service announcement for the day! In order to assure that you won't take a beat down at a little league game don't get so emotionally invested that you pop off at the mouth and catch the WRONG guy on the RIGHT day. 

When I was a kid I never once saw parents get into it at a game. Because you already know that the joint would have been cleared with gun fire and someone would have died out there. Yes, even at a little game bruh because there's always someone out there with "The Wish Factor!"

Holla At Ya Boy! 

Jay Graves

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