Posted on 05/01/2013 9:45:22 PM PDT by moviefan8
A home run off the bat of Adam Dunn happily found its way to a young Rangers fan. While the boy celebrated his newfound treasure, an evil, tattooed witch stole the ball and threw it back on the field. The woman and her meathead companion celebrated while the boy sulked. I’ve lost faith in humanity.
Here’s a step-by-step look at the boy’s heartbreak.
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Even if it was off the bat of the opposing team.
Nope. She understands baseball etiquette. Of course the kid didn’t, but he got some swag from the Rangers as a result.
This poor woman should not have tossed the ball back because it wasn’t hers, but she actually did the right thing from a baseball perspective. Namely, if the other team hits a homer, it’s a stink ball — toss it back!
I actually feel sorry for her because of the hate she is getting.
Tossing the ball back is a recent event, when I was a kid you fought to catch a ball and would never throw it back even from the other team. Just the continuing stupidity of people.
A few years ago I saw the video of a game where a player tossed a ball to a kid in the stand, as the kid with his glove was ready to catch the ball, a man reached in front of him, caught the ball and then gave it to his son. I don’t remember if the man was booed or not. Now that man was mean.
Seems like a pretty dumb-ass tradition to me.
That is one of the stupidest ‘traditions’ (NOT) in baseball. And it seems to have started with the least classy fans of all, Chicago Cubs. Which btw, is considered the largest outdoor gay bar!
I agree with you servo1969.
It is a dumb tradition. I don’t understand it.
I would keep the ball if I was lucky to catch one.
If I could get the autograph from the guy who hit the ball it would be better.
It seems dependent on whether you are a fan “of the game”, or more a fan “of the team”.
If I am a fan of my team, above all else, whe would I want to keep a home run ball from my enemy?
IN a sense, it would be like wanting to get an autograph from a movie star you dislike, just because they are a movie star.
Throwing the ball back says “we love our team, and will have nothing to do with the success of the other team against us.
If you are at the game for the game, and don’t care about the teams, then you’d just love to have the ball.
BTW, I grew up in Connecticut, but we were fans of the Orioles, where we had lived previously. So we would go to Yankee games but sit on the visitor dugout side. It was very easy to get autographs, most yankee fans even then wouldn’t pretend they cared about the other team. And there were really good seats available on that side for the same reason.
There are a lot of traditions in baseball, like the 7th inning stretch? Is it stupid? Why would you stand up in the middle of that particular inning, just to sing some ridiculous song (usually ‘take me out to the ballgame’, at least in my day)
We had a guy who dressed funny and would lead us in chants in section 34. He became so famous that if you search “Baltimore Orioles Section 34 cheerleader”, you will be directed to his wikipedia entry. Stupid tradition, or part of the memorably experience — I can say that the occasional visiting fan who ended up in that section probably felt it was a pretty stupid thing, preventing his enjoyment of the game, while we all went wild for Wild Bill Hagy. But that tradition went down with the man.
And of course we have the shouted “O” during the national anthem, which seems disrespectful, but is not confined to the ball park. I was just in Florida for the World Quidditch Cup finals, and since Maryland had a team there, when we sang the national anthem, a section of fans shouted “O” at the appropriate time. I’ve also heard it at theme parks (which are one of the few places where they still have you stand quietly for the anthem before opening).
That's EXACTLY what happened.......
It's a wonderful tradition and it's even enhanced when you throw your own team's HR ball back on the field. It sends the message that they probably suck..........LOL!
If I pay for parking, seats and 10$ beers I am keeping any free baseballs I catch.
Freegards
C'mon, imagine catching a ball hit by Ted Williams, or Hank Aaron, or Johnny Bench.
Even if you hate the other team, what a prize that would be.
Interesting, but honestly, I still think it’s tasteless.
Just my own view on it. In the big scheme of things, this matters not :)
When I was young, my father won some “man of the year” award, and his prize was to take his boys to a Yankees game, where we would meet them all in the locker room. Even though we were Orioles fans, we definitely were thrilled by this.
Sadly, the Yankees were in a horrible losing streak, and when it was our time to visit the locker room, the entire team was in a team meeting. They sent out two players to meet us and autograph our baseballs. Still I treasured that ball.
In order to fit into New York, I took to the Mets, who lost all the time. Until one year they didn’t. My most memorable game was watching Tom Seaver set the then-record for strikeouts in a game, and strikeouts in a row. We made a poster of that.
I stopped following baseball the year they went on strike. I was just graduated college; they lost a fan who would have spend thousands of dollars going to games, all because for one month, they stopped playing — that was the month after I graduated college. I had actually scheduled the start of my real job by a month, so that for one month I could do nothing but go to ball games.
So I re-arranged my LIFE for that game, and they repaid me by striking because they felt they didn’t make enough.
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