Someone Sent Rob Thomson a Bamboo Plant to Turn the Phillies' Hitting Around
Someone looking for a job sent a bamboo plant to Rob Thomson’s office hoping to bring the bats to life:
Some ambitious person sent Rob Thomson a bamboo plant with a note that said: “Hoping this gets the players out of their slump. Positive vibes are one of the many things I bring to this club as a future baseball ops employee.”
— Destiny Lugardo (@destiny_lugardo) August 28, 2024
OMG!
COULD IT BE???
IS THAT? THAT’S BAMBOO BRAD’S MUSIC!
the ambitious person pic.twitter.com/jPwbTSkC38
— Kyle Pagan (@CBKylePagan) August 28, 2024
Thomson didn’t say when he received it, but the present does seem to coincide with a four-game winning streak in which they’ve scored 30 runs and notched 54 hits, 16 doubles, and have an OPS of .969. The bamboo could be bringing good luck. We’ve seen it before.
Quick backstory if you don’t remember the origin of Bamboo Brad. Brad Miller bought a “lucky bamboo plant” in Chinatown and brought it into the Phillies clubhouse one night after the Phils were in the middle of a seven game losing streak:
Brad Miller told me he bought the lucky Bamboo today in Philly. He believed it would end the losing streak tonight
“This will bring us some wins. I can feel it”
I said, “If you win tonight…?”
He said, “When we do”
Every Phillie will have Bamboo in their locker tomorrow pic.twitter.com/cdqj7eRQOi— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) June 25, 2019
That night the bats came alive and the Phils recorded the most hits in a game at that point of the season. They immediately went on a four-game winning streak with two walk-off wins against the Mets. Fans were bringing bamboo into the games. It was a great moment in an otherwise forgetful season. So if someone wants to gift Rob Thomson some bamboo to turn fortunes around I’m all for it.
If the Phils win the Taijuan Walker game to sweep the Astros I’m getting some bamboo.
