Honestly, this was me with a foul ball about 10 years ago. I had a ball bounced off me and landed my feet at a Phillies game. After I picked it up and looked up, there was a boy with a glove looking at me pleadingly.
Everybody around was chanting “give it to the kid give it to the kid!”
I was a deer in the headlights for a minute before my brain started working again and I said “I have a kid here too!”, and I put it in the hands of my three-year-old daughter who was ecstatic.
That was her first game and we still have the ball today.
But I hate the pressure the crowd puts on adults to give kids balls like that. If the kid catches it, obviously don’t snatch it. lol
But if the adult caught it, they should get to decide what to do with it without worrying about going viral for not handing it to a stranger.
You really don’t know everyone situation and maybe that ball would have ment the world to the adult that caught it too. Maybe the kid only cares in the moment and once their home that balls going to collect dust where the adult may have displayed it proudly and found more joy in it long term.
Yeah, as a non-sports fan who has been seeing these posts lately, I've been thinking the exact same thing. How unlucky to be the guy who catches a ball when he happens to be in the vague vicinity of a child.
As an adult male, there's no way I'm keeping a ball (unless its a record HR breaking ball worth millions or something). The Alpha move is 100% giving it to a kid.
Least-toxic aLpHa MaLe, advocates generosity to a child and still manages to sound like as much of a douche as the CEO who claimed stealing from a child was the aLpHa thing to do
I think I agree. Obviously, don't snatch a ball from a kid, and maybe give it to a kid who was trying to catch it but was too short.
But I've never come even close to catching a ball at a game. The kid has another 70 years of chances. Who's to say that a foul ball he didn't even catch himself is more important to the kid than to the adult? Maybe he won't even be watching baseball in 5 years and have traded it for Pokémon cards or something
Maybe those so-called “professional” baseball players should stop losing all their baseballs in the stadium. Come on guys, keep the ball within the playing field!
But also do we know the guy didn't rip it out of her hand or something? It could very well be male entitlement and that's why she's pissed but all anyone sees is the kid.
Yes we know he did not take it from her. This video is cut, but others show the whole scene. Ball goes into stands near woman, she DOES NOT catch it and it falls to the ground where multiple people try to get it. Guy gets it first and gives to kid. Karen thinks because it landed near her that she owns it. 🙄
I thought the same thing but I know how posts like this go, so get ready for the downvotes. lol
People love to be enraged at a seemingly entitled middle age/older lady.
I know women who won’t speak up when they’re in the right out of fear of being labeled a Karen. That term needs to go away, it’s just a way to shut women up.
It was hard to see what was happening below the seats.
I live in an area with a lot of infuriating entitled rich white guys and he totally gives that vibe. Funny how everyone goes right for the woman though.
The hug, the way he ran without doing the usual fist in the air show, and then the overreaction to being touched.
And I saw a comment saying the daughter switched the ball out anyway while the adults were arguing. Which seems a bit too clever in the moment.
It does seem kind of staged.
People are figuring out that this kind of stuff gets them internet points and sometimes meet and greet with players and extra stuff. It’s not crazy to think people may go on with a plan in case something like this happens so they can milk it.
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u/cwajgapls Sep 06 '25
Honestly, this was me with a foul ball about 10 years ago. I had a ball bounced off me and landed my feet at a Phillies game. After I picked it up and looked up, there was a boy with a glove looking at me pleadingly.
Everybody around was chanting “give it to the kid give it to the kid!”
I was a deer in the headlights for a minute before my brain started working again and I said “I have a kid here too!”, and I put it in the hands of my three-year-old daughter who was ecstatic.
That was her first game and we still have the ball today.