Tuesday, June 15, 2004
About The "Ballpark Bully"
About that guy who got the foul ball at the game by diving over the seats in front of him:
The people on TV who have introduced the clip say he took the ball away from a kid. Even the announcer doing the game could be heard saying, "Nice going, he took it away from a little kid. You should be really proud of yourself...There's the biggest jerk in the park."
THIS IS A LIE. I never saw a kid in that clip holding a ball at all. Not the kid in the orange shirt, not any other kid, nobody else. Now, the guy was quite aggressive, and I don't recommend, as he did, flipping yourself over the row of seats and knock a kid almost over. That was what he did wrong. But he did not steal a ball from anyone. Is the guy getting a bad rap? Yes, he is.
And then they have some dolt with a microphone come over later and ask him, whaddya say you give the kid the ball? And the guy says no thanks. Well, who's he going to give it to? He didn't take it away from anyone. The kid wasn't even going for the ball! Well, it didn't matter. Anytime a kid even remotely appears to be wronged, we gotta give him everything we can. Look at Reggie Sanders calling the kid over, giving him a bat. Now Sanders probably didn't know what happened and didn't realize that the kid did not have any ball taken away from him. But still. Give me a break.
My recent post about foul balls included a comment about an usher who grabbed a foul ball at the same time I did and wouldn't let go, and told me to let go, and I thought to myself, if I let go, he's going to give it to a kid. I am so sick of this mentality that kids have to get all the breaks. Sorry, but if I catch a foul ball, I'm not giving it to a kid. I was a kid once and had plenty of foul ball opportunities taken away from me by the quicker, more agile hands of an adult. So screw the kids. I'm taking what could have been mine years ago.
So there.
Nyaah nyaah.
Ha ha, hee-aqua.
The people on TV who have introduced the clip say he took the ball away from a kid. Even the announcer doing the game could be heard saying, "Nice going, he took it away from a little kid. You should be really proud of yourself...There's the biggest jerk in the park."
THIS IS A LIE. I never saw a kid in that clip holding a ball at all. Not the kid in the orange shirt, not any other kid, nobody else. Now, the guy was quite aggressive, and I don't recommend, as he did, flipping yourself over the row of seats and knock a kid almost over. That was what he did wrong. But he did not steal a ball from anyone. Is the guy getting a bad rap? Yes, he is.
And then they have some dolt with a microphone come over later and ask him, whaddya say you give the kid the ball? And the guy says no thanks. Well, who's he going to give it to? He didn't take it away from anyone. The kid wasn't even going for the ball! Well, it didn't matter. Anytime a kid even remotely appears to be wronged, we gotta give him everything we can. Look at Reggie Sanders calling the kid over, giving him a bat. Now Sanders probably didn't know what happened and didn't realize that the kid did not have any ball taken away from him. But still. Give me a break.
My recent post about foul balls included a comment about an usher who grabbed a foul ball at the same time I did and wouldn't let go, and told me to let go, and I thought to myself, if I let go, he's going to give it to a kid. I am so sick of this mentality that kids have to get all the breaks. Sorry, but if I catch a foul ball, I'm not giving it to a kid. I was a kid once and had plenty of foul ball opportunities taken away from me by the quicker, more agile hands of an adult. So screw the kids. I'm taking what could have been mine years ago.
So there.
Nyaah nyaah.
Ha ha, hee-aqua.
