How many of us can say we’ve been Dodger fans since before we were born?
Amri Arias sure can. The 2-year-old from Pico Rivera recently went viral for a 12-second clip posted to TikTok in which she names her favorite Dodger players.
Her mother, Jacquelyne Arias, said that she originally filmed the video to send it to her husband, Daniel. But they decided to post it on TikTok without expecting it would reach nearly 1 million views.
“She’s been saying her favorite players since she’s been 2” Jacquelyn said. “She’ll walk around the store, saying ‘Let’s go Dodgers!’ and I’m like, ‘OK, you need to relax.’”
Her dad explains that Amri started sporting Dodger gear as soon as she was born. And although she hasn’t been to a game yet, he says he’s searching for the right time to take her.
However, it might seem that Amri was at a game before she was even born.
“We went when I was pregnant with her in my belly and — oh, my goodness — she moved around like crazy when the crowd would go wild,” Jacquelyn said. “I would just feel her doing flips and turns so she’s been a fan since she was in the belly.”
Jacquelyne even makes her daughter’s Dodger bows herself. “Once I realized I was a girl mom, thankfully I’m very crafty so I started making her baby bows.”
Daniel said his daughter really started taking an interest in the Dodgers when she turned 2.
“Her birthday is close to the postseason, so we were watching the postseason and then she would ask like ‘Who’s that? Who’s that?’” Daniel said. “So, she was very into it, so we just started naming players for her, and then that’s when she started naming her favorite players.”
Amri would play with her toys around her parents, occasionally standing in front of the television, pointing and asking about certain players, her mother said.
Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani and Kike Hernández seemed to have won a spot at the top of the toddler’s list.
There may even be favorites among the favorites, as she mentioned Betts and Freeman twice.
“‘Feeefeeeman’ soo cute,” one person commented on TikTok.
“She said Ohtani loud and clear,” another person said.
Some commenters pointed out that it sounded like Amri said “chicken nuggets” when she said Kike Hernández’s name, with some even joking that the Dodger player should adopt it as a nickname.
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Source: NBC Bay Area
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