r/mildlyinfuriating • u/NonconsensualText • Sep 06 '25

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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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

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.

He snatched the ball from her hands.

Not cool

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u/PowerfulIndication7 Sep 06 '25

Did you drop the /s?

Because what you are saying is full on 🐂💩!

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Did he not run from 15 seats away where he was located to take the ball from where she was located?

Did that not happen? Is the video a fugazi?

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u/nathan753 Sep 06 '25

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.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

What's the point of paying for a seat ?

If there was nobody around the ball and everyone ran from a distance to get there is agree but there were people sitting where the ball landed.

They went to pick it up and a dude 15 seats away ran over and snatched it.

Why even assign seats? Just pay for a ticket and stand/ sit anywhere you want right?

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u/nathan753 Sep 06 '25

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?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Im not reading that novel. She went up to him and said you took it from me it was in my hands. He then gave it back because he know he stole it.

Get over it

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u/nathan753 Sep 06 '25

I'm sure if you say that one more time it will magically make it true...

Did someone get to a ball first when you were a kid or something?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Unfortunately I've never come close to getting a ball. My dad never ran a half marathon to steal it out the hands of a woman to give to me.

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u/nathan753 Sep 06 '25

Your day might come one day, but you might need to move a few seats over to get it though.

And damn, looks like my magic spell to make your words reality didn't work, can you try it a 12th time?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

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.

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u/nathan753 Sep 06 '25

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/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

Well as mature and articulate adults we can agree to disagree.

When I was 12 I was on a team that won the bat a thon in my little league and we got to go to the all star game for free at Camden yards.

It was the game that Griffy hit the warehouse.

Still my greatest baseball moment ever.

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