Young Baseball Fan’s Hilarious Rookie Hot Dog Fail Goes Viral (Let This Be a Lesson, Dads)

Part of the duties of being a dad is teaching your children certain things, whether that’s how to throw a ball, ride a bike, or hock a loogie. One essential skill dads should also school the next generation in is how to eat a hot dog at a baseball game.

Nowhere was the necessity of knowing how to eat a wiener in the midst of a bustling stadium during an MLB game on clearer display than during a recent match-up between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. A 4-year-old named Matthew Hoobler was enjoying the game on his family member’s lap when, during a moment of inattention, he bit into the side of the bun and the hot dog rolled off the other side and right onto the stadium floor. (Eww…)

The kid immediately realized his mistake and smacked himself in the face. Meanwhile, his family members were likely mourning the loss of what was probably at least a $6 meat stick.

Absolutely brutal pic.twitter.com/4NoqTPrEA7

— White Sox Talk (@NBCSWhiteSox) August 14, 2022

The clip of the hot dog fiasco went viral, amassing over 2.3 million views on Twitter at the time of this writing.

Ah, but what followed wasn’t just your typical collective moaning and groaning over the mishandling of a hot dog (for which thehotdog.org actually provides guidelines in order to avoid such a tragedy). Instead, a hot dog stand cleverly dubbed The Wieners Circle, which is based in Chicago, came to Hoobler’s rescue and offered him and his family all-you-can-eat hot dogs to fill the hot dog-shaped hole in their hearts.

We’ve crowdsourced pops via @Twitter and will be providing all you can eat hot dogs for his -less boy and his best buds. Pops is clearly an @tigers fan, maybe we should make him dress up in a 1919 black Sox uni? @shane_riordan @fromthe108 @ronnychieng https://t.co/GbaPjQTL31

— The Wieners Circle (@TheWienerCircle) August 16, 2022

The Wieners Circle even went one step further and hosted Hoobler in order to teach him proper wiener etiquette.

Cheyenne taught young Mathew how to properly hold a hot dog upside down without it dropping…more to follow! https://t.co/Ju4vc3M44X pic.twitter.com/UEy7PFssoH

— The Wieners Circle (@TheWienerCircle) August 21, 2022

All’s well that ends well in the processed meat department.

But let this be a lesson, dads: teach your children well, especially when it comes to hot dog consumption.

Cover Photo: Twitter