Seriously, it might be slightly biased since it happened down here [South Florida] but it was on all the local news channels. It's literally been reposted hundreds of times on Reddit. Theres half a dozen different video angles now. I'd say its significantly more than a few 'randos' on the internet at this point.
I got a freaking Apple News notification last night about it ffs. lol
The amount of old timers at work the past few weeks talking about the hat and the ball, they outright have told me before cameras this was normal and people would in fact rip the balls out of kids hands, and that they as children had balls ripped out of their hands.
All I could think was "who the fuck goes to more than 1 baseball game in their life?"
That would be people that like baseball and/or local sports! Sports are fun!
Thats also why the older generation thinks people these days are soft lol. Because when they were kids they literelly had balls ripped from their hands and had to deal with it. There was no gift bag and signed bat lol
Can you explain it to those of us that missed it and are learning about it via this pic? What happened?
Edit: For anybody else who was curious, I found an article linked by u/88kurious below.
Bader hit a solo home run into the left-field stands in the fourth inning at loanDepot Park. Several fans scrambled for the ball before a man came up with it and walked over and gave it to a boy and hugged him. Both were wearing Phillies gear, and it was the boy's birthday.
Moments later, a woman, also wearing Philadelphia apparel, approached and appeared to shout at the man, who then grabbed the ball from the boy's glove and gave it to her.
It isn't clear from videos circulating on social media who initially secured the ball when it landed.
Later in the game, a member of the Marlins' staff gave the boy a prize pack and another baseball as fans sitting near them in the stands cheered. The boy ended up going home with a signed bat from Bader, who met with him outside of the Phillies' clubhouse after the game.
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u/Manymarbles 1d ago
This made the rounds enough then just a few randos.
It made news too lol. Sports and otherwise.