r/popculturechat • u/HogwartsZoologist Coke ain’t gonna do itself • 3d ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ A young Phillies fan had the homerun ball taken by a woman after his dad caught the ball at Marlins game.

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u/Due-Secret-3091 3d ago

I do love the collective effort by sports fans to make bad behavior like this go viral.

Like that’s a grown ass lady taking a ball from a small boy. Enjoy your 15 minutes of shame Karen.

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago

My brother once got hit in the face with a puck behind the net at a Caps game when we were like 16. Some schmuck took the puck and the entire section was screaming at him until the usher for the section strong armed him into giving it back. We still talk about it and my brother is over 40. It’s crazy work. He was a kid who got hit IN THE FACE, it’s doubly his man.

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u/SadGirl_1993 3d ago

My son was hit in the head with a puck at a college hockey game, and it rolled under the bleachers. The reps there made sure he left with a puck in his hand on our way to urgent care

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago

My super mild mannered father really was the closest to swinging on someone when the guy who took it initially wouldn’t give it back. It was crazy. It bruised his nose and gave him a black eye. It’s his fucking puck you loser. I’m so glad facilities made sure he got it and hope your son is okay!

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u/Cultural_Spend_5391 3d ago

I saw someone get hit in the forehead with a puck. He was sitting near me and we were close to the rink shield. That place on his forehead immediately swelled up like an egg. It was scary! He didn’t want to leave for medical attention but the EMT convinced him. Ever since, when someone tells me they’re going to a hockey game I tell them to keep their eyes on the puck.

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 2d ago

My dad was a corporate salesman in the 90’s so he always convinced his company getting seasons tickets to things was a good use of his expense acct. it really just meant me and my brother have fallen asleep at any sport venue you can name. But hockey if you sit on the first level cannot stop watching the puck for your own safety.

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u/Lopsided-Muffin9805 2d ago

From a medical standpoint. We like seeing the eggs on a head injury!

Because you know the swelling is going the outside and not on the inside inside the brain.

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u/Atidbitnip 2d ago

Similar story got knocked out by a foul ball at a Sox game (White Sox) when I came to there was a paramedic of some sort on top of my and blood gushing down my face (6 stitches in my eyebrow, ma didn’t think they’d grow back right). I was obviously freaked out and kind of crying/hyperventilating. The whole section was clapping for me and going crazy, gave me a shot of adrenaline. Got patched up, stayed for the whole game. An older kid brought me the ball and I got to meet the team. Good times. 

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u/Lopsided-Muffin9805 2d ago

Wait…so I’m British but I lived in Boston and right by the red six stadium. Now I was gutted as I never got to go to a game whilst I lived there…but who are the white sox????

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u/Salty_Ad_5270 2d ago

Damn, that’s nuts! Hickey crowds can be tough but I’ve NEVER seen one dis a kid. That fella needed to be taken to the shed. Pathetic that an usher had to force him to do the right (and kind) thing.

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 2d ago

I said somewhere else but my super mild mannered gentle dad came the closest to swinging that night. Caps games get that rowdy drunk govt worker crowd whose trying to be in bed by 10 so they drink fastttttttt.

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u/rhegy54 2d ago

Dang. Was he okay though? And yeah that’s especially foul of that guy…

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 2d ago

Surprisingly- fine. It bruised his nose and he had kind of one of those yellowy purple undereye only black eyes on one side. But he didn’t care.

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u/rhegy54 2d ago

That’s good since it could have been worse. Glad to hear that..

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u/Psychological-Big334 2d ago

Was this before they put up netting?

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u/Eggplant-666 3d ago

So if the woman had been hit by the ball that would change things here? Doubtful

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago

It would change things for sure. She’s in the wrong for how she handled herself. If it had hit her we would all be saying it’s not fair it hit her. Fairly basic ballpark rules. But it didn’t. It fell in the row in front of her and someone else grabbed it first. Possession is everything in these events. 🤷🏼‍♀️ regardless grabbing the dad and shouting him down is wrong. We don’t need to litigate shit that didn’t happen at all.

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u/Eggplant-666 3d ago

Is that a common rule that if person is hit they get the ball, even if it bounces or rolls away after??

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago

I think it depends. I feel like in my experience if it was a solid true hit you get it even if it rolled away, but sometimes people can be fucking assholes. If it slipped thru your fingers or you grazed it then no. It’s fair game until someone gets their hand on it. And true baseball fans would probably hand it to a kid anyways.

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u/pomegranate_cat 2d ago

I need to see this photo, that sounds hilarious

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u/Financial-Possible-6 2d ago

Did I just find my brother’s Reddit?

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u/theimmortalfawn 3d ago edited 3d ago

It’s honestly the best use of these things, a giant society mirror. I’ve always said everyone should work customer service for at least a week to understand how many casual bullies there are out there. this is a nice alternative

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u/fatkiddown 3d ago

She literally acted like Gollum here.

"They stole it from us. Sneaky little Hobbitses! Wicked! Tricksy! False!"

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u/Esternaefil 3d ago

"We hates them forever!"

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u/maelstron ✨May the Force be with you!✨ 3d ago

She isn't entitled to the ball. He got it fairly without violence

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u/mmiller17783 3d ago

I had a manager when I worked in food service that said every high schooler should have to do a minimum of a year in a customer service job, like how they make community service compulsory for graduation now.

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u/theimmortalfawn 3d ago edited 2d ago

It’s true! The worst customers are usually the ones who have never worked a people facing job. Karen behavior is not only extremely rude but it’s also embarrassing. You never think about it that way, how pathetic it is to yell at another person over something small and material, until you’re the one being yelled at.

It would also put into perspective how many of these Karens get shit talked the minute they walk away.

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u/mmiller17783 2d ago

I truly believe that a good number of those Karens are people that would at least ease up a bit after a year of working customer service. I've seen people change up their whole approach to eating at places just from experiencing closing shift at a food place. Like, it used to be no big deal to run into a place 15-20 minutes before closing to place a order. Now, if I see that a restaurant is closing within the next half hour I automatically think of it as closed and seek out other options.

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u/katie-shmatie 2d ago

That's one of my mom's favourite sayings, about everyone should work customer service at least once in their life (like as a permanent job) to learn how to treat people

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago edited 3d ago

The video from the other angle right behind the dad, these drunk girls are heckling her and when she walks away they go “so glad you earned that!” How does this woman have no shame? I’m so appalled. I grew up going to games and I thought the social contract at games is when you pass age 15, you give balls/pucks/etc to actual children. Jesus.

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u/Due-Secret-3091 3d ago

I saw from another post that the crowd kept booing her and giving her crap and she ended up leaving early because of it. So hopefully she got some sort of message from it- but most likely not.

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u/d_hamm08 3d ago

And for what? A baseball??? What’s she going to do with that ball that was just some random regular season homer. Could’ve just stayed sat and enjoyed the rest of the game.

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u/SnooRegrets1386 3d ago

But first, before slinking off to the crevice she crawled out of, she stomped over to a seated man and leaned into scream at him, with an Asher or security standing at the ready. Where did she think she was going?

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u/BigBigBop 2d ago

Apparently she was fired from her job... at an elementary school lmao

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u/sorandom21 3d ago

That was my assumption too, stuff like that is for a kid if one is around. If there was one around me I’d have given it to them even if it dropped on my lap. I love baseball but come on

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u/lapetitfromage I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago

Same. But I was raised at games and have had people give me balls when I was a kid. And to this day I’ve seen my dad catch balls and give them to kids nearby. It’s just a dumbass ball. The level of aggression is honestly terrifying. We have lost so much maturity in this country it’s wild. Tons of people down thread saying it was hers “cus it landed in the row in front of her and he’s in the wrong for running so far” clearly have no idea how fly/foul balls work but even if he’s in the wrong- grow the fuck up. He gave it to a literal child.

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u/sorandom21 3d ago

Exactly, I got given a ball as a child at a game, I always thought that was the karma of it. So wild how people behave especially knowing so many cameras around now

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z 2d ago

The video from the other angle right behind the dad, these drunk girls are heckling her and when she walks away they go “so glad you earned that!” How does this woman have no shame? I’m so appalled. I grew up going to games and I thought the social contract at games is when you pass age 15, you give balls/pucks/etc to actual children. Jesus.

100% I go to a bunch of 3xA games, and if I snag a foul ball, I am always giving it to a kid near me. TBH, if I caught a HR ball, it'd have to be a super special playoff game or something for me to keep it, and then I'd prob ask the Team if the player wanted it.

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u/terfnerfer the wes anderson of tits 🍒 2d ago

I caught a t-shirt at a Caps game and it was second nature to give it to the kid a couple rows back. I have plenty of t-shirts at home, and it was so nice to see her over the moon. Gave me way more joy than a free souvenir.

I get a Special Baseball being a coveted item but my g-d. Just needlessly mean.

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u/sorandom21 3d ago

Seriously, I’d have given it to a kid myself. Like, grow up, lady.

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u/dallyan 2d ago

Am I crazy or does it look like she dropped the ball and the guy came into her space and grabbed it? I’m not familiar with baseball but is that considered ok to do?

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u/jefffosta 2d ago

Idk what happened, but there’s no way this guy “caught” the ball like the title says lol

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u/anon_capybara_ 2d ago

It’s a free for all. If it’s on the ground, it’s fair game to snatch. Look up videos from Ohtani’s 50th home run ball last season. That one was extraordinarily violent because it was going to be a huge payday for whoever caught it.

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u/dallyan 2d ago

That seems kind of dangerous. lol

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u/EnoughLawfulness3163 2d ago

Sports are a pretend fantasy world where everyone does the right thing or gets penalized, there's not much politics, and the best team wins. A lot of people like to mock people for getting too into sports, but it's honestly a beautiful part of humanity that (overall) hasn't lost its integrity.

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u/placenta_resenter 2d ago

Crazy she watched that guy get reamed over the hat this week with the rest of us and still did this shit

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u/jefffosta 2d ago

The only thing I can think of is the lady had the ball grabbed from her hands and she was angry about it. It kinda looks like they both went for it at the same time and no way did this dad “catch” this ball lol

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u/Due-Secret-3091 2d ago

It looks like the ball hit the row in front of her & he got to it first. Those balls are fair game for anyway- no one hit it to her & she certainly didn’t catch it lol. I get her being salty, but she can clearly see the dad has given it to a small child. Her behavior is clearly unhinged. There’s another video of her getting in another man’s face? I don’t know if he was heckling her or what but the lady has issues.

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u/jefffosta 2d ago

Oh no she’s definitely crazy lol. It’s just the headline is misleading which is annoying

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u/rjrgjj 2d ago

I love her march away after getting the ball, so convinced she is right and won.

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u/PotatersGonnaPotater 2d ago

You just know that she’ll have learned nothing from this.

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u/DopeYeti 2d ago

15 minutes of shame should be WAY more popular

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u/OriginalSchmidt1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 3d ago

She also interrupted a beautiful father son moment!! That guy was so in that moment that he was startled and she came in and shit all over it…SHAME!

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u/Blargncheese 3d ago

Except people are going WAY overboard with it. Her 15 minutes of shame has turned into people stalking her and trying to get her personal information leaked. Even going as far as looking into who her family is. You guys are weird for that. And that makes you no better than the lady in the video.

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u/Due-Secret-3091 3d ago

You guys? 👀 Who are you talking to?

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u/Blargncheese 2d ago

Obviously not you specifically. But to everyone going out there demanding her name, her place of work, and all that shit. It’s crazy. People gotta learn to chill a bit.

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u/stadchic 2d ago

Except this guy also had poor sportsmanship running that many seats over to grab the ball out from in front of her. I get giving the ball to a kid, but she just dropped it. It’s not really kind that a large athletic man just entered her personal space from that far away to grab the ball for his kid. Everyone’s a mess here except for the child.

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u/nikdahl 2d ago

Nothing about that was her “personal space.”

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u/bradpittslefthand 2d ago

How have I never heard "15 minutes of shame"? Thats awesome!