Yeah, I'm talking about the one at the Rangers-Cardinals game. WTF? I didn't know Texas held ***holes that big. Did anybody on the board from the Dallas area recognize him? Here's a little what was written about him on espn.com:
BEAT ME TO IT!! i know i've told this before...but i'll have to repeat it for the purposes of this thead. i'm in law school talking to two friends...one from dallas...the other from san antonio. the one from dallas starts talking about all the things going on in dallas at the time...my other friend looks over and says, "yeah...but you have to live there with those miserable people." bingo!
wasnt it here in houston last year durring the stros-cards series that a young man bulldozed over a crippled elderly man to get a ball, and the mans wife took his cane and hit the guy that took the ball. i just remember seeing that on sportscenter for the next couple days.
I guess I'm in the minority. I would have done the exact same thing... my gut reaction would have made me instantly dive for that ball just like him.
I would have grabbed the ball, kept it for about a minute, then handed it to the kid. That way, the crowd would give me a standing O and if there were any hot ladies sitting near by, I could work the "nice guy" angle to get in their pants.
I can understand that but once you realized you ran over a kid you wouldn't have gave up the ball? Especially after thousands of fans and the broadcasters were screaming it at you?
DUrign the hockey season last year I got to see a couple of good scrambles for pucks. The best was a guy about 30 trying to get a warm-up puck. In his mad scramble to go down 2 rows he dump his complete glass of beer on an elderly gentleman. The elderly guy popped him in the nose stunning him then 2 younger men(they were pretty massive) with the elderly guy stepped in between them. The puck grabber quickly retreated and returned to his seat. The best thing was he didn't get the puck a guy who was actually sitting where the puck fell got it and gave it to the old guy.
I think the media that interviewed him and the commentators were overdramatizing it as well. Calling him a jerk on TV and sending a guy over to interview him over the PA system of the stadium was uncalled for, whether you think's he's an ass or not. I actually felt sorry for the guy. I'd love to know how his girlfriend felt though, and I would love to be in the car on the drive home to listen to THAT conversation. I wonder how his day is at work this morning. "Sportscenter" identified him to the entire nation.
Honestly, I don't think I would have. I wouldn't succumb to their peer pressure. Of course I would have profusely apologized to the kid and probably bought him an ice cream cone or something to make up for it.
My view on it that if catch a foul ball, I shouldn't be expected to just hand it over to the nearest kid. After all, it's not like I have a pile of foul balls from MLB games laying around at home. However, this guy went beyond any lines of decency and acted like a complete jerk. If you have to tackle a kid to get to the ball, then you should just let the kid have it.
I simply do not understand the mad rush and implied value of a freaking foul ball. Or even your average home run. I've held a baseball before...it's no different. The power of the player isn't immediately transferred through some kind of weird osmosis. I don't get it.
It's a cool souvenier and a fun story you can tell people for years. "I caught Edgardo Alfonzo's foul ball in the third inning of an Astros victory over the Giants in 2004!" I don't know, I find it cool, given the odds are SO slim that you will ever have the chance to catch one.
Really? I thought they only gave souveniers to kids. I have yet to see an adult get something from an athlete, without pimping out a kid.
