"Next time on the bare ass"

Radhika and I were seated on the metal bleachers at Patsy T. Mink Regional Park watching Sangha play baseball last night with his Islanders.Under the lights! A little boy (4 or 5) was watching his baby sibling, pushing them around in a stroller, cheering for his dad when he came to the plate, wondering if the team had a point yet. Then we heard loud baby wailing, followed by the little boy's clarion voice saying he hadn't meant to, he hadn't meant to. The father (whose shirt read VOODOO) took his son to the portables behind the park and started yelling. Then he hit the boy, hard, and said next time on the bare ass. Someone got a hit. I looked up as Sangha reached first. When Radhika and I left to get food, the little boy was pushing his baby sibling around in the stroller (there had been a lot of crying). Radhika gently advised him to go slowly.