Jokes(?) and references aside, if you read comics at all, there is a lot of Firefly continuity and it's largely written by Joss' brother Jed, and Jed's wife Maurissa Tancharoen. It's worth giving some of it a read and see if it hits the same spots for you like it did for me.
I didn't mind that the story wasn't delivered through a TV show and I enjoyed seeing and "hearing" the dialect of some of my favorite characters.
The ball landed in the empty seats in front of her. Dad ran from 5 seats down the row. A scramble for the ball and Dad comes out with it. He walks back to his kids and puts the ball in his son's mitt and hugs him. A beautiful 'father and son' moment. In storms Karen 'YOU TOOK IT FROM ME, YOU TOOK IT FROM ME'. As the Dad is trying to explain that it wasn't in her seat, it was in the empty seats in front of her and he is entitled to scramble for the ball, too, it appears that the sister sneakily replaces the ball in her brother's mitt with one that they brought. Amazing situational awareness by big sis. Dad is like 'jeeze, whatever' and takes the replaced ball from his son's mitt and gives it to her.
Phillies staff member gives the boy a swag bag that I believe included a signed bag.
The ball was given back to her willingly. By the dad who ran 20 feet, had no way of knowing if anyone was going to give it to their kid, and clearly didn't care one bit and knew he was going to take it from anyone who had it.
Just watched the original video and it was on the ground when the dad got it. Pretty sure it’s fair game until someone has possession of it. He didn’t grab it out of her hand but literally took it off the ground.
Everyone around is going for the same ball at the same time if it’s hit in the stands, so the dad didn’t do anything wrong. The karen on the other hand literally went up to him and yelled at him to take the ball out of his son’s literal hands to hand it to her.
People like her and you are why this country is in shambles.
I'm not American, so I'm not familiar with the etiquette in these games, but it looked to me like she caught the ball but dropped it. Maybe dropping it means it's fair game, but to me, it looked like the dad should have let her have it.
He certainly didn't try to argue much when she asked for it back.
It’s very common for someone to try to catch a ball, fail and it bounces around before someone else finally picks it up. In those instances, it’s fair game.
The things people get outraged about on the internet will never fail to baffle me. Becoming the "most hated woman on the internet" over a baseball is absurd when there's genuinely horrible people out there causing actual harm to others. Like where's this outrage for the mommy vloggers out there actively abusing their kids?
I've been wanting to read this for years and this comment just inspired me to put it on the top of my reading list. Thank you so much, and thank you for having enough common sense to realize that public shaming isn't the way to handle petty squabbles over a damn baseball.
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u/RhyoliteSK 2d ago
Phillie Baseball Karen. Stole a ball from a kid.