The odds were great. The likelihood of success low, and the cost high.

We're talking cheesy nachos. I mean, he just got them, too. We're not talking about a few chips and some hardened-over scraps of cheese. It's pretty much a full basket.

But this is America. Don't tell us the cost, the cost doesn't matter. When someone needs to go in, we go in.

All in.

Let's break this down, the better to fully appreciate the acclaim he has so richly earned.

Eugenio Suarez of the Reds hit a homer, sending it sailing towards the baseball fan hero dubbed "Nacho Man" by the media. He had it, if only for a too-brief moment.

It started to pop out.

He tried to recover, but it went sailing forward two rows bouncing off of the edge of a seat in the bottom of the frame.

Undeterred you could see he had already begun his leap into glory.

And yet, even in this perilous moment, he managed to hold the tray of nachos perfectly upright.

I am reminded here of the epic Tennyson poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade."

Fans to right of him,

Nachos to left of him,

Ball in front of him,...

Fitting as it turned out just about as well.

He started going down, but he was fully committed at this point.

There was no turning back, even if he wanted to. The Nachos were already lost.

As was the shoe.

He shook it off, like a man, taking care to stretch those hammies. (No sense getting a cramp.)

And consoled his disappointed but surely proud son.

From this day forward, he'll be able to say, "Yeah, Nacho Man was my dad."

Another kid scarfed the ball up.

Now, everyone will have a different opinion about this, but I would have suggested my kid give it back, and I'm about 95% sure he would have, but to each his own. All is fair in baseball and war, after all and that ball was legitimately fair game.

No matter, really, because the story still has a happy ending anyway.

The story does have a silver lining -- the viral moment was seen by the wife of Reds relief pitcher Lucas Sims, who took to Twitter to find "Nacho Man" so they could get him a baseball from the game.

"We'll get you taken care of Nacho Man," Sims added.

Lucky enough, the Sims found the man and said they were sending him an autographed ball for his son. They even threw in a free pizza to cover the cost of his lost nachos.

I salute you Nacho Man, and all that you represent.