How The Internet Enabled A Mariners Fan And DoorDash Driver To Connect And Do Something Cool
from the faith-restored dept
The world can be an awful, horrible place. Lately, it feels like, in America, things are only getting more difficult. And, because my country loves its scapegoats, the internet has been routinely blamed for all the country’s, perhaps the world’s, ills. Insurrections, political radicalization, obesity, poor socialization, literally any sub-optimal thing to do with children: blame the internet.
But that’s obviously stupid. The internet is responsible for both good and bad outcomes in society, as is pretty much everything else. But the internet also is only as good or bad as those that make use of it. And sometimes, the internet enables really awesome stuff.
Take the story of Sofie Dill, Seattle Mariners fan, and Simranjeet Singh, a DoorDash driver. This past weekend, without getting into too much detail, Jesse Winker was hit by a pitch while playing the L.A. Angels and a brawl between the teams ensued. Baseball fights are plainly dumb, but some fans enjoy them, or at least root for their players in the fight. To that end, Dill, from her home in Arkansas, decided to send Winker a pizza from a local Anaheim parlor to be delivered directly to the stadium. And, for added measure, she live-tweeted her DoorDash experience for everyone to follow along.
Baseball fan or not, you should go check out the full thread. It’s a harrowing journey to see if she could in fact deliver a pizza to a professional baseball player in a visiting Major League clubhouse to express her support. The spoiler here is that the pizza did in fact get delivered, Winker reached out to her on Twitter to say thanks, and a whole bunch of people were cheering on the DoorDash driver, Singh, as he went on his dutiful journey.
As a result, Dill managed to get Singh to share his Venmo QR code and shared it out to Twitter.
And from there, the internet did its thing. Plenty of folks started sending money to Singh’s Venmo. Other’s asked they could send him money via another platform. Singh himself started sending out tweets thanking everyone, clearly overjoyed at everyone’s generosity. Then, were that not enough, two other awesome outcomes happened, just to restore your faith in humanity.
While I can’t be sure how much was donated to Singh, he certainly didn’t keep all of it for himself.
There are good people in this world. Paying it forward would have been the feel good coda to this story on its own, but then the Mariners decided to get in on the fun as well.
Dill got herself a Winker jersey from the Mariners. Singh had what he describes as a life-changing event. Mariners fans got to have a ton of fun on Twitter with all of this. St. Jude’s got a donation.
If there’s a loser in this story, I can’t find one. And all of this made possible by the evil, vile internet that too many people blame for every last thing.
Filed Under: baseball, fandom, internet, jesse winker, pizza, sharing, simrajeet singh, sofie dill
Companies: doordash, seattle mariners
Comments on “How The Internet Enabled A Mariners Fan And DoorDash Driver To Connect And Do Something Cool”
With all apologies to the Tolkein estate:
There’s still some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.
evil, vile internet
Don’t forget, this was done on the ” evil, vile internet” live
I wonder, Winker we see some other good news stories?
Lovely story. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful things can happen, but since no one was bleeding or dead the story is relegated to the last minute of the news broadcast where they look for a cute or touching story to show people that the other 50 minutes of horror they covered breathlessly doesn’t mean all is lost…
There’s loads of charity’s that get donations from fundraisers on sites like twitch , people can safely work from home, they can save money time on less driving commute time, less pollution, the Internet is mostly a good thing. Of course tv news prefers to focus on crime war bad news war than simple good things that people do
Re:
Working from home costs more rather than less.
The losers in this story are the jackasses who decided to start a fight.
They don’t really have to count as being in the story, though. They can have their own stupid story, away from all the cool human action.