Everyone loves a feel good story...

Whether it is about the slumdog in India who wins a game show, or about the pilot who landed a plane safely on the Hudson after unexpectantly falling from the sky uncontrollably--everyone loves a feel good story.

The latest feel good story is related to Brett Gardner and the New York Yankes.

Decades ago, Joe Dimaggio and Babe Ruth would go to children's hospitals and promise people homeruns. Dimaggio and Ruth were homerun sluggers so their promises were normally golden.

But this past week when Gardner visited a children's hospital, a girl gave him a bracelet predicting that he would hit a homerun if he had it on him. Gardner who had only hit one homerun up until that point said that he would try his best and thanked her. 

So the other night Gardner steps up to bat, and he takes a swing at a pitch. The ball falls just inside the foul line in left field and gets to the wall. Gardner puts on his wheels and hits first base, he hits second base, he hits third base, and he comes diving into home--for an in the park homerun. The hit was no slug, it didn't go out of the park, and it sure as hell wasn't a Dimaggio or Ruth hit, but with his speed around the bases Gardner was able to give the little girl the homerun she had predicted. 

However, that isn't the feel good part--although you may feel good, now you will feel better.

The next morning the little girl and her family received a phone call, and it wasn't Brett Gardner to tell them about his homerun. No, it was a call that a heart had become available for the girl--something she and her family had been waiting months for.

Now, that makes you feel good.