Julie_Kim's Blog

I got to meet a really cool family today. A school teacher named Louis Borda and his 8 year old daughter Veronica pulled up in Luigi as I was waiting outside Citizens Bank Park.

Luigi  is a red 1967 Fiat, named after a character in the movie "Cars." The Borda girls had cut out letter Ps and pasted them on the tiny car, making it a real Phillies fanmobile. I asked Veronica if she was into baseball and she said, "No, but my dad is teaching me so I am starting to like them." Her dad said that he wanted his daughters to love the Phils as much as he did. Although they don't have tickets to the post-season games, he said they'd "sit outside the ballpark and listen to the game on the radio, like in the old days."

The more I cover the fans and their families, the more I start to realize how important it is to have some kind of commonality or connection with your kids. My brother and I grew up as latchkey kids. My folks worked so much that they never made it to any competitions or anything like that or really got to know my interests.

If I were to have children in the future, I'd probably want to introduce them to photography, my love of reading, nature and travel and comic books and all things science fiction. If they liked any one of those things, I think I'd be real happy. It's really something to watch some of these families with little kids, all decked out in their Phillies gear. Not knocking the Phils or anything like that but little Julie Kim Jr. will be wearing a Star Wars T-shirt.