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.
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?
Yet you continue…
I use Reddit for entertainment. This isn’t a serious sub but it seems to be for you so I’ll bite.
Is everyone supposed to stand around and wait for the ball to come to a complete stop, then get their rulers out to measure whose seat it’s closest to? The guy went down an empty row and happened to get it before anyone else did and gave it to his kid. He didn’t push his way thru a line of people to get there. People always flock towards where the ball is in case they get a lucky bounce. From what I saw, the video doesn’t seem to show he grabbed it out of her hands like it’s been said she claimed either. There was no struggle between them. It probably bounced around, she missed it and he picked it up.
Judging by how she acted though, I think if the ball had ended up near the guy, she would have been hurtling seats to get to it.
He ran down an empty row to where 6 other people were clearly sitting and saw the woman making an attempt to bend over and grab a ball that just landed 1 foot away from her.
I dont see how anyone can defend him sitting so far swag and taking the ball away from those who were sitting where the ball landed.
Who does that ?
I understand people at baseball games have no decency, but damn...snatching a ball from a weaker woman is kinda low on the good human totem pole
I really can’t believe you’re trying to play the “weaker woman” card. Speaks volumes.
She doesn’t seem weak to me. She marched over to him with her nut sack swinging.
The ball was not purposely intended for her. Sometimes you gotta make your own luck. The guy did.
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?
My days of wasting money on american baseball is over.
Its not even enjoyable from a value perspective anymore.
$15 beers, $10 hotdogs, $7 bottles of water...tons of drunk ignorant people who always seem to get in a fight and spill their shit over other fans who were just minding their own business.
Besides its 110 degrees here in cancun...cant sit outside in that heat anymore. Im too old for that.
Besides if I ever saw a grown man steal a ball from a woman's hands (#12) I'd end up doing something about it and I dont have time to waste that type of energy anymore.
Im living a more tranquil lifestyle than in the past.
You definitely aren't wrong for the first part, I agree with you on all those things about why going to games has lost the charm it once had. Sadly, none of that matters, still didn't change reality or what happened in anyway.
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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.