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Mean guy, little kid, foul ball.... blah, blah, blah (1 Viewer)

I don't really see the big deal though. He had a second to react and grabbed for the ball like anyone would. Not enough time to process the idea that he should just stand there and let the kid get it. Then held it up. I've never gotten a foul ball and would be really stoked too. Then the camera pans away. I would've given the kid the ball. Maybe he did, we don't know. Time elapsed from the ball landing to the camera panning away is 10 seconds.
Nope. I'll go for the catch. But if it hits the ground, it's yours.

It's a ####### baseball.
:goodposting:

Late 80's my high school buddies and I went to a Reds game, and Tim Wallach hit a foul down into the right field line stands where we were. It was heading a few rows behind us, but it didn't curve back there until the last moment, so we were all standing by that time. Not sure what happened but eventually it hit me in the back of thigh and landed right between my feet. So I bent down, picked it up, and sat down. Apparently a lot of people didn't know where it went, because probably five to ten seconds later my buddies look at me and say "OH! You got it!" I said "yeah". And they tell me I should have stood up and held the ball up high for all to see. I said "why? I didn't catch it."

They just looked at me like :mellow:

What's the big deal about ending up with a ball you didn't catch. They only cost a few dollars to buy, and this one had a big scuff on it from Wallach slicing it (or maybe hitting the seat). So I have a ball Tim Wallach's bat touched. Big deal. I bet 90%+ in here don't even know what team he played for.

 
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true story.... juan samuels first career homerun hit my sister in the leg and was stolen from me from some guy.

back then there were no cameras and such, my grandparents were pissed and talk to the ushers, we were told tough luck

 
I'm willing to give the guy some benefit of the doubt because I doubt he's thinking clearly at the time. However, I guarantee you I would be pissed if I was the kid's Dad.*

*This is all assuming that he didn't give the kid the ball.

 
My 6 yr old daughter stepped up to the wack a mole at the amusement park yesterday and another girl about her size took up a position next to her, ready to go head to head in a timed match for a medium sized stuffed animal. As they pounded away, my athletic ballerina daughter pulled far ahead on points and the other little girl fumbled and tried, but couldnt connect, as her mother called out to her to try harder and "hit the moles!" With about 12-14 seconds left on the clock, mom snatched the hammer and pounded moles in a frenzy, hunched over the game board like a loon. As the buzzer went off she beat my still swinging daughter as I literally stood there with my jaw hanging down.

The woman working the game looked at me sadly--I expect they see some crappy behavior--and shrugged as my daughter looked at the woman and her shamefaced daughter and said "Hey..."

I snapped out of it and told my daughter she did a great job and not to worry about it and then called out loudly from a few feet away "Nice win, Mom!" The mother wouldnt look at me but told her daughter "Look honey, you get a stuffed animal". At which point my daughter turned and took my hand and looked up at me questioningly...and I met the eye of the husband of the woman/the poor girl's dad and said "It is fine, sweetheart, some people have loser parents who cant let them try on their own." Poosy guy looked down and away.

Some people are just dooshes. We went on to have a great day.

 
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My 6 yr old daughter stepped up to the wack a mole at the amusement park yesterday and another girl about her size took up a position next to her, ready to go head to head in a timed match for a medium sized stuffed animal. As they pounded away, my athletic ballerina daughter pulled far ahead on points and the other little girl fumbled and tried, but couldnt connect, as her mother called out to her to try harder and "hit the moles!" With about 12-14 seconds left on the clock, mom snatched the hammer and pounded moles in a frenzy, hunched over the game board like a loon. As the buzzer went off she beat my still swinging daughter as I literally stood there with my jaw hanging down.

The woman working the game looked at me sadly--I expect they see some crappy behavior--and shrugged as my daughter looked at the woman and her shamefaced daughter and said "Hey..."

I snapped out of it and told my daughter she did a great job and not to worry about it and then called out loudly from a few feet away "Nice win, Mom!" The mother wouldnt look at me but told her daughter "Look honey, you get a stuffed animal". At which point my daughter turned and took my hand and looked up at me questioningly...and I met the eye of the husband of the woman/the poor girl's dad and said "It is fine, sweetheart, some people have loser parents who cant let them try on their own." Poosy guy looked down and away.

Some people are just dooshes. We went on to have a great day.
Holy crap!!! I don't understand awarding them the prize when the woman clearly cheated.One of those stories that makes me wish I was there to curse at the woman.

 
Raider Nation said:
Flying V said:
Raider Nation said:
[icon] said:
Ugh... Ashamed hes a damn sox fan
How does the kid's dad just sit there with his mouth shut?
I think he was too busy looking around to see if his 8 year old might be depriving a 4 year old of the ball.
It wasn't until I saw it for the 10th time that I noticed the Mom on the far left with her palms up, as in "WTF did that clown just do!!!"
check out grandma to the right.

ETA: Just rewatched thats the kid he stole it from... to the right.

 
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My 6 yr old daughter stepped up to the wack a mole at the amusement park yesterday and another girl about her size took up a position next to her, ready to go head to head in a timed match for a medium sized stuffed animal. As they pounded away, my athletic ballerina daughter pulled far ahead on points and the other little girl fumbled and tried, but couldnt connect, as her mother called out to her to try harder and "hit the moles!" With about 12-14 seconds left on the clock, mom snatched the hammer and pounded moles in a frenzy, hunched over the game board like a loon. As the buzzer went off she beat my still swinging daughter as I literally stood there with my jaw hanging down.

The woman working the game looked at me sadly--I expect they see some crappy behavior--and shrugged as my daughter looked at the woman and her shamefaced daughter and said "Hey..."

I snapped out of it and told my daughter she did a great job and not to worry about it and then called out loudly from a few feet away "Nice win, Mom!" The mother wouldnt look at me but told her daughter "Look honey, you get a stuffed animal". At which point my daughter turned and took my hand and looked up at me questioningly...and I met the eye of the husband of the woman/the poor girl's dad and said "It is fine, sweetheart, some people have loser parents who cant let them try on their own." Poosy guy looked down and away.

Some people are just dooshes. We went on to have a great day.
Holy crap!!! I don't understand awarding them the prize when the woman clearly cheated.One of those stories that makes me wish I was there to curse at the woman.
There are really no rules about who swings the hammer at something like wack a mole and the woman behind the counter has to give the stuffed animal to whichever board/hammer has the most points. I teach my daughters to stand up for themselves but you cant teach the whole world not to be terdsucking losers--it would take too long. I pick my battles pretty carefully and once I called them losers to the dad's face very loudly from about 3 feet away, and he tacitly agreed with me, there was nothing to do but go have fun and forget them.

 
drummer said:
And then he holds it aloft, showing it off like he's freaking Brooks Robinson or something. Dude, you picked it up off the ground after missing it.Worst person ever.
:lol:

Rack RN.
Don't do this. There is no faster way to show you have a small penis than to quote Jim Rome.

 
Politician Spock said:
Christo said:
McGarnicle said:
I don't really see the big deal though. He had a second to react and grabbed for the ball like anyone would. Not enough time to process the idea that he should just stand there and let the kid get it. Then held it up. I've never gotten a foul ball and would be really stoked too. Then the camera pans away. I would've given the kid the ball. Maybe he did, we don't know. Time elapsed from the ball landing to the camera panning away is 10 seconds.
Nope. I'll go for the catch. But if it hits the ground, it's yours.

It's a ####### baseball.
:goodposting:

Late 80's my high school buddies and I went to a Reds game, and Tim Wallach hit a foul down into the right field line stands where we were. It was heading a few rows behind us, but it didn't curve back there until the last moment, so we were all standing by that time. Not sure what happened but eventually it hit me in the back of thigh and landed right between my feet. So I bent down, picked it up, and sat down. Apparently a lot of people didn't know where it went, because probably five to ten seconds later my buddies look at me and say "OH! You got it!" I said "yeah". And they tell me I should have stood up and held the ball up high for all to see. I said "why? I didn't catch it."

They just looked at me like :mellow:

What's the big deal about ending up with a ball you didn't catch. They only cost a few dollars to buy, and this one had a big scuff on it from Wallach slicing it (or maybe hitting the seat). So I have a ball Tim Wallach's bat touched. Big deal. I bet 90%+ in here don't even know what team he played for.
We're pretty well informed around here, guy, so I'm willing to bet money that everyone in this thread knows he played for the Bills.

 
Got tired of looking at the other title.
Makes it less compelling.
Precisely.
Why though? Are you getting some heat from this, or just regretting it?
Neither, really. It was a good run and that's that. Never expected this to get to 3+ pages. Figured there would be a few funny replies and that's it. I sent it to Deadspin, never in a million years expecting it to get posted there. And despite a few snarky comments here about this making me "famous"... that wasn't the goal at all. Deadspin didn't use my full name, I didn't even ask him to use my first name, my YouTube page wasn't linked to, nor do I care if it gets any subscribers. I have THREE friggin videos posted on the channel.

Just time to let it die, that's all. I didn't like the way the guy ripped the ball from the little kid. I said so very publicly, and now it's done.

 
Got tired of looking at the other title.
Makes it less compelling.
Precisely.
Why though? Are you getting some heat from this, or just regretting it?
Neither, really. It was a good run and that's that. Never expected this to get to 3+ pages. Figured there would be a few funny replies and that's it. I sent it to Deadspin, never in a million years expecting it to get posted there. And despite a few snarky comments here about this making me "famous"... that wasn't the goal at all. Deadspin didn't use my full name, I didn't even ask him to use my first name, my YouTube page wasn't linked to, nor do I care if it gets any subscribers. I have THREE friggin videos posted on the channel.

Just time to let it die, that's all. I didn't like the way the guy ripped the ball from the little kid. I said so very publicly, and now it's done.
I don't think that people take it that seriously, but hey, you had the balls to post something that others agree or disagree with. Getting on Deadspin might be a small token to the effort, and using your first name is a bit jarring to the reality of posting something that get's a lot of views, but your channel will expose at least that. Otherwise, why even start a YouTube channel and link your content that is directly from your own 'studio'?

Just take the jab, and fight the good fight.

 
your channel will expose at least that. Otherwise, why even start a YouTube channel and link your content that is directly from your own 'studio'?
This originally had nothing to do with my YouTube channel, other than uploading it there so I could show you guys. Then I emailed Tim at Deadspin because I know he has posted stuff like this in the past, and I asked if he'd be interested in taking a look at it. He replied almost instantly and said sure. I asked how to get the video to him. He asked if I had somewhere to upload it. I explained that I just started a YouTube channel last week (because I finally got that PVR I mentioned on page 1), so he told me to upload it there and send him the link. There was no agenda here for me to "expose" my page. Again, there is barely anything to see there.

 
your channel will expose at least that. Otherwise, why even start a YouTube channel and link your content that is directly from your own 'studio'?
This originally had nothing to do with my YouTube channel, other than uploading it there so I could show you guys. Then I emailed Tim at Deadspin because I know he has posted stuff like this in the past, and I asked if he'd be interested in taking a look at it. He replied almost instantly and said sure. I asked how to get the video to him. He asked if I had somewhere to upload it. I explained that I just started a YouTube channel last week (because I finally got that PVR I mentioned on page 1), so he told me to upload it there and send him the link. There was no agenda here for me to "expose" my page. Again, there is barely anything to see there.
I'm on a couple of beers, so don't take this the wrong way, but sending it to Deadspin is having an agenda with the "Joikoff stealing ball" (putting your original title lightly). I have less of a problem with that than you are at this moment. If you're feeling that you were a little harsh about the subject and where it lead to 24+ hours later, that's understandable. Yet I would still stand by the intent why I posted it, wherever and whenever. Otherwise, it makes it a superfluous attempt that would take away from others who felt the same way viewing that clip, and those who saw it like you did while watching it on television.

 
Politician Spock said:
Christo said:
McGarnicle said:
I don't really see the big deal though. He had a second to react and grabbed for the ball like anyone would. Not enough time to process the idea that he should just stand there and let the kid get it. Then held it up. I've never gotten a foul ball and would be really stoked too. Then the camera pans away. I would've given the kid the ball. Maybe he did, we don't know. Time elapsed from the ball landing to the camera panning away is 10 seconds.
Nope. I'll go for the catch. But if it hits the ground, it's yours.It's a ####### baseball.
:goodposting:

Late 80's my high school buddies and I went to a Reds game, and Tim Wallach hit a foul down into the right field line stands where we were. It was heading a few rows behind us, but it didn't curve back there until the last moment, so we were all standing by that time. Not sure what happened but eventually it hit me in the back of thigh and landed right between my feet. So I bent down, picked it up, and sat down. Apparently a lot of people didn't know where it went, because probably five to ten seconds later my buddies look at me and say "OH! You got it!" I said "yeah". And they tell me I should have stood up and held the ball up high for all to see. I said "why? I didn't catch it."

They just looked at me like :mellow:

What's the big deal about ending up with a ball you didn't catch. They only cost a few dollars to buy, and this one had a big scuff on it from Wallach slicing it (or maybe hitting the seat). So I have a ball Tim Wallach's bat touched. Big deal. I bet 90%+ in here don't even know what team he played for.
expos.
 
McGarnicle said:
And now he's on YouTube labeled an #######.
Best response I've read in the FFA at a particular subject. This is the most salient point in this thread, where a moment of personal exuberance is interpreted to the point of critical mass. The criticism totally takes away the game of baseball for any age, yet I think RN did an awesome thing by putting that on point, to where even Deadspin carried it. There should be no remorse from the OP, rather it drives a discussion on how we see things in something innocuous as chasing a foul ball. The reaction to it outside of McGarnicle's dead on point outside of the FFA is what bears witness.

Again, that's why I would stand behind it if I posted it, because it really has a lot more merit than just a LOL.

 
Got tired of looking at the other title.
Makes it less compelling.
Precisely.
Why though? Are you getting some heat from this, or just regretting it?
Neither, really. It was a good run and that's that. Never expected this to get to 3+ pages. Figured there would be a few funny replies and that's it. I sent it to Deadspin, never in a million years expecting it to get posted there. And despite a few snarky comments here about this making me "famous"... that wasn't the goal at all. Deadspin didn't use my full name, I didn't even ask him to use my first name, my YouTube page wasn't linked to, nor do I care if it gets any subscribers. I have THREE friggin videos posted on the channel.

Just time to let it die, that's all. I didn't like the way the guy ripped the ball from the little kid. I said so very publicly, and now it's done.
This is much bigger than you now.
 
This thread is a reminder for me to not be a big p**** and steal a foul ball from a kid when we're at the Twins game Monday.

 
Guy should've been punched in the face first for acting like he just won the Stanley cup. Then punched again for not giving the ball to the kid.

 
McGarnicle said:
And now he's on YouTube labeled an #######.
Best response I've read in the FFA at a particular subject. This is the most salient point in this thread, where a moment of personal exuberance is interpreted to the point of critical mass. The criticism totally takes away the game of baseball for any age, yet I think RN did an awesome thing by putting that on point, to where even Deadspin carried it. There should be no remorse from the OP, rather it drives a discussion on how we see things in something innocuous as chasing a foul ball. The reaction to it outside of McGarnicle's dead on point outside of the FFA is what bears witness.

Again, that's why I would stand behind it if I posted it, because it really has a lot more merit than just a LOL.
It's an interesting microcosm of the warped instant media/social media society we live in. Privacy has become a thing of the past, not just because of gov't intrusion but because people willingly live their lives online. Couple that with humans' need to quickly analyze and make sense of every situation, and you end up with a George Zimmerman and that whole media circus, or Columbine being grossly distorted and misreported by the media, or on a smaller scale by about a million, this. 10 second clip...watch, react, judge, post a snarky comment, done. We're all judge, jury and executioner of this guy, then we go on our way. Not a care in the world that this dude has to live with whatever judgement has been made of him by strangers. It's interesting when you think that we give the same treatment to celebrities, except they get constant scrutiny and thus more opportunity to publicly screw up. Then we pounce and tear them down. Why do we do it? To feel better about ourselves? But conversely they have a chance to redeem themselves and then we cheer the comeback.

To try to say whether or not RN should feel remorse is really beside the point. This is how things are now. We all have to live with the possibility of having the spotlight thrust on us at any time. Try to be ready, I guess...

 
Is there a different angle than the one posted? I mean, I failed to see where the guy took the ball from the kid. I just see a scrum of people and the guy coming out of it with the ball.

 
Politician Spock said:
Christo said:
McGarnicle said:
I don't really see the big deal though. He had a second to react and grabbed for the ball like anyone would. Not enough time to process the idea that he should just stand there and let the kid get it. Then held it up. I've never gotten a foul ball and would be really stoked too. Then the camera pans away. I would've given the kid the ball. Maybe he did, we don't know. Time elapsed from the ball landing to the camera panning away is 10 seconds.
Nope. I'll go for the catch. But if it hits the ground, it's yours.

It's a ####### baseball.
:goodposting:

Late 80's my high school buddies and I went to a Reds game, and Tim Wallach hit a foul down into the right field line stands where we were. It was heading a few rows behind us, but it didn't curve back there until the last moment, so we were all standing by that time. Not sure what happened but eventually it hit me in the back of thigh and landed right between my feet. So I bent down, picked it up, and sat down. Apparently a lot of people didn't know where it went, because probably five to ten seconds later my buddies look at me and say "OH! You got it!" I said "yeah". And they tell me I should have stood up and held the ball up high for all to see. I said "why? I didn't catch it."

They just looked at me like :mellow:

What's the big deal about ending up with a ball you didn't catch. They only cost a few dollars to buy, and this one had a big scuff on it from Wallach slicing it (or maybe hitting the seat). So I have a ball Tim Wallach's bat touched. Big deal. I bet 90%+ in here don't even know what team he played for.
Do you still have the ball?

 
He taught that kid a valuable life lesson that will stay with the kid long after that ball would have been stowed away in a box in an attic or basement somewhere...

 
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Agree with McGarnicle. Dude was looking down going for the ball. I doubt it ever crossed his mind that he was "battling a little kid" for it. Foul ball hit the ground, he picked it up. Whoopdee-do.

Odds that RN did a dance even dooshier than that guy's when the post hit deadspin? Pretty high I'm guessing.

 
It looks like the ball hit him in the gut before it lands. That ball was smacked and coming in fast, curving from the field toward him. To go from a resting heart rate to "oh ####!" in about 2 seconds, tough to say how you're going to react. You hear the crack of the bat and that ball gets big real quick. I doubt he even saw the kid. On top of that the kid sold him out with his reaction a la Moises Alou (but it looks like he's just pissed he missed a ball that came so close). Worst person ever? I don't see it. He's there with an older man, probably his dad. Maybe they have a thing about going to hundreds of games together and never catching a ball. They made a pact to get one before pops dies. Now imagine the old man has cancer. Could have been one of the greatest nights ever for those two. Maybe the dad passed away over night. Son turns to his wife at the hospital bed, "thank God I finally got a foul ball. At least I know he went happy." He signs the ball, "to Dad, we got one! I love you. -Louie" and places it in the coffin. He's in tears walking out of the funeral home when some kid walking by recognizes him from the Deadspin article. "Hey mister, you're the worst person ever!"

 
McGarnicle said:
And now he's on YouTube labeled an #######.
Best response I've read in the FFA at a particular subject. This is the most salient point in this thread, where a moment of personal exuberance is interpreted to the point of critical mass. The criticism totally takes away the game of baseball for any age, yet I think RN did an awesome thing by putting that on point, to where even Deadspin carried it. There should be no remorse from the OP, rather it drives a discussion on how we see things in something innocuous as chasing a foul ball. The reaction to it outside of McGarnicle's dead on point outside of the FFA is what bears witness.

Again, that's why I would stand behind it if I posted it, because it really has a lot more merit than just a LOL.
It's an interesting microcosm of the warped instant media/social media society we live in. Privacy has become a thing of the past, not just because of gov't intrusion but because people willingly live their lives online. Couple that with humans' need to quickly analyze and make sense of every situation, and you end up with a George Zimmerman and that whole media circus, or Columbine being grossly distorted and misreported by the media, or on a smaller scale by about a million, this. 10 second clip...watch, react, judge, post a snarky comment, done. We're all judge, jury and executioner of this guy, then we go on our way. Not a care in the world that this dude has to live with whatever judgement has been made of him by strangers.It's interesting when you think that we give the same treatment to celebrities, except they get constant scrutiny and thus more opportunity to publicly screw up. Then we pounce and tear them down. Why do we do it? To feel better about ourselves? But conversely they have a chance to redeem themselves and then we cheer the comeback.

To try to say whether or not RN should feel remorse is really beside the point. This is how things are now. We all have to live with the possibility of having the spotlight thrust on us at any time. Try to be ready, I guess...
You think this guy was concerned about his privacy?

 
Politician Spock said:
Christo said:
McGarnicle said:
I don't really see the big deal though. He had a second to react and grabbed for the ball like anyone would. Not enough time to process the idea that he should just stand there and let the kid get it. Then held it up. I've never gotten a foul ball and would be really stoked too. Then the camera pans away. I would've given the kid the ball. Maybe he did, we don't know. Time elapsed from the ball landing to the camera panning away is 10 seconds.
Nope. I'll go for the catch. But if it hits the ground, it's yours.It's a ####### baseball.
:goodposting:

Late 80's my high school buddies and I went to a Reds game, and Tim Wallach hit a foul down into the right field line stands where we were. It was heading a few rows behind us, but it didn't curve back there until the last moment, so we were all standing by that time. Not sure what happened but eventually it hit me in the back of thigh and landed right between my feet. So I bent down, picked it up, and sat down. Apparently a lot of people didn't know where it went, because probably five to ten seconds later my buddies look at me and say "OH! You got it!" I said "yeah". And they tell me I should have stood up and held the ball up high for all to see. I said "why? I didn't catch it."

They just looked at me like :mellow:

What's the big deal about ending up with a ball you didn't catch. They only cost a few dollars to buy, and this one had a big scuff on it from Wallach slicing it (or maybe hitting the seat). So I have a ball Tim Wallach's bat touched. Big deal. I bet 90%+ in here don't even know what team he played for.
Do you still have the ball?
Maybe.

I have a bag of old balls. It might be one of them.

 
I didn't like the way the guy ripped the ball from the little kid.
:lmao: Now you're just making things up.

I can't believe people are still crying about this non-event. People these days think children are entitled to everything. No wonder our country is full of ####iees.

By page 4, it'll be "Nazi pedophile rapes and sodomizes child with baseball. What a mean guy."

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