(Audacy) If you’ve gone to a major sporting event recently, inevitably you’ve seen birthday and anniversary messages scrawled across the stadium jumbotron, but you've probably never anything quite like this from the Brewers-Pirates game Monday evening at American Family Field in Milwaukee.
Surely there’s plenty more to the story, but from context clues we can safely gather "Mark" finds himself trapped in the dreaded friend zone, an awkward purgatory between plutonic friendship and romantic involvement. Even without knowing Mark’s full identity, this is a pretty ruthless message to broadcast to 23,000 strangers. Everyone at some point in their life experiences the adolescent hell of unrequited feelings, though usually not this publicly. Sympathetic to Mark's plight, social media shared its condolences, offering a shoulder to cry on after seeing our fallen hero catch the ultimate stray.
While Mark went to the pantry for a dustpan to sweep up the shattered remains of his broken heart, the Brewers apparently found inspiration in his story, rallying from an eighth-inning deficit to win 7-5, the result of a walk-off two-run homer by first baseman Keston Hiura.
After suffering a rejection of the highest order, Mark will have to wear this humiliation for a while. But at least All-Star outfielder Christian Yelich and the Brewers are behind him 100%, dedicating the comeback win to Mark, another victim of love’s inherent cruelty.
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