An Oxnard sixth-grader was playing in a travel ball tournament that Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes attended. The boy told him a knock-knock joke afterward.
The memes that erupted from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal are last week’s news. The knock-knock joke is this week’s fun — so much fun that even a Dodgers player cracked up.
Robert Rodriguez, a sixth-grader from Oxnard, was playing in a travel ball tournament Saturday in Tustin. Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes happened to be there, as a friend of one of the coaches, and Robert said he was kind enough to take pictures and sign autographs for the kids. Robert’s uncle had texted what the 12-year-old thought was a pretty good knock-knock joke. Barnes had just happened to park next to the truck driven by Robert’s father. So, as his family was packing up at the ballpark, Robert could not help but try the joke on Barnes.
“I just thought of the joke because he was the Dodgers catcher in the 2017 World Series,” Robert told The Times on Monday night. “I wasn’t sure if he was going to like my joke.”
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