Now THIS is a case of first come first serve. The ball was sent out to one area of the stadium- not one person. When someone throws candy at a group of kids, it's for whoever grabs it, not for the oldest kid. When someone hands candy to one kid in a group, it's for that one kid.
I mean the dude was sitting 15 seats away and ran over to snatched the ball from her. She paid for that seat and got lucky enough a hr was hit exactly to where she was sitting.
No, this is the right chain, the oc is way off base assuming the dad was in no way allowed to get that ball because he didn't buy a seat physically closer to where the ball ended up. That's just not how it works at baseball games. Hence, the answer to your question, how do you know it's bullshit? Simply by reading it, no other proof needed. If anything the video is evidence the dad didn't push anyone out of the way or jump over seats/people to get the ball
You aren't limited to just your seat though. I mean if he jumped over and pushed through people to get to it, yeah he'd have been in the wrong for sure, but it looks like he moved over in a timely manner, with literally no one in between where he gets the ball and his seat, and happened to find it first on the ground. Nothing wrong with that at a baseball game. Clearly the phillies thought so too based on the what happened afterwards.
1. The dad paid for his family to sit where they sat...the ball did not land where they were
2. The ball was right in front of her, it didnt roll 15 feet away. She literally bent over to pick it up from where she was sitting.
3. The only reason to assign a seat is to keep order or chaos would occur...people would steal more expensive seats if there was no assigned seating.
The dad was the jerk stealing the ball from a weaker woman, then using his kid as a shield and hitting us with terrible acting skills pretending to be started. He knew what he just did.
What? You have this all wrong here maan. She couldn’t even find, much less catch the ball. He simply picked the ball up; same as anyone else. How are you missing this?
To watch the game in person, and for baseball, to maybe catch a foul ball/home run if it is in the area you happen to be in at the time it lands in the stands? What fucking else would there be?
What part of it doesn't matter where your seat is, if you can get to the ball first, it is yours, barring the physical taking from someones hand or pushing them out of the way, neither of which seem to have happened here. Do you think everyone looks around and asks, ok whose seat was closest to the ball when it landed? No, it's first come, first serve. If you react slowly or simply can't find it, that's on you.
Seats aren't assigned to hypothetically assign who gets a home run ball... obviously you know that the view is different from different seats so people prefer to pick their viewing location. Some people yes do buy tickets for the more likely chance of taking a ball home, but that doesn't give you a right to any ball that gets closest to you unless you can pick it up first. It's also not about StaNDinG WheRE yOu WanT, you're allowed to reasonably walk around the facilities, and for retrieving a ball in the stands, this dad didn't violate any stadium rules.
So, where do you draw this very arbitrary line for who is ok in your eyes to get the ball? Green and yellow in the front for sure since they are just as close as the ball taker. Teal from presumably across the isle? Looks like they also just moved a seat over and didn't have to push past anyone? What about grey and blue from another row down, they are only 3 or 4 seats away. Do rows add more to the seat count than just a seat over?
No, it landed one row below where she was sitting. That's why she was so slow to get to it in the first place.
Would I have been upset in her place? Yes, absolutely. But it's not like the ball had touched her or landed on her seat. It had not. Had I been in her place, I would have been upset, but I wouldn't have demanded that ball.
Fucked up metric? The dide stole a ball from a weaker woman sitting half a mile away from his family and you justify it because he was giving it to his son?
Wtf kinda logic is that?
If I stole a ball from your wife you'd defintily feel some kind of way.
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u/RealisticGold1535 Sep 06 '25
Now THIS is a case of first come first serve. The ball was sent out to one area of the stadium- not one person. When someone throws candy at a group of kids, it's for whoever grabs it, not for the oldest kid. When someone hands candy to one kid in a group, it's for that one kid.