On December 4, 2019, Dylan Bundy was traded to the Los Angeles Angels for four prospects, a trade he learned about while vacationing in Costa Rica.
According to The Athletic, Bundy finally did receive the news, just hours before he planned to propose to his girlfriend, Caitlin Smith.
I will make you read the article to see if she said yes, but the story is a great reminder of how baseball players often need to juggle the pressures of everyday life with the demands of being professional athletes.
They might appear bigger than life on television screens and jumbotrons, their names worshipped or ridiculed on sports talk shows and blogs, like this one, but they are regular people who do regular things when they are not on the baseball diamond.