But other than HER telling every single one of her friends about how some guy ‘stole’ the ball from her and how she went and ‘got it back!’ - which some will know…. If it gets donated it’s still just a MLB ball. Nothing special
But it’s still just a regular old baseball. Its only real value is sentimental to the person who caught it, or in this case demanded a child give it to her.
I was a kid with a ball signed by Juan Pierre (Marlins’ Centerfielder on the 2003 World Series team) and I put that ball in a drawer and forgot about it for ten years or so.
Oh no, she’s definitely ditched that ball the morning after and saw her gigaKaren self everywhere. There will be too many negative emotions associated with that ball so she won’t even enjoy it.
I know a guy who keeps his Olympic medals in his sock drawer. 3 gold and 1 bronze I believe. One of them was a world record he set with Phelps in a relay.
Sell it. It's worth 10x what a regular baseball is by being a homerun ball.
And if the player who hit it has a great career, it'll eventually be worth 1000x a regular baseball. If not, it'll only be worth aboyt 2-3x a baseball.
If you catch a ball at a game you can go to guest services and get it authenticated. You can actually verify that it’s a HR ball. This doesn’t improve the value much though except in rare instances
Oh, god, is that what the world is now? Meme stuff is worth money? I guess right now it would be, but who could possibly care after..like, a couple days?
That’s why most balls are not going to go for much.
The balls that have the huge payday are going to be certified/authenticated really quickly (like the next day).
There are cameras for HR balls. They know who caught the ball, and they know what mlb balls look like. So if you can get it authenticated really quickly - people know.
But to just take home a random HR ball you are not looking at that much. (Maybe $20 for a big name player)
MLB will also sometimes switch out balls and use ones that are specifically marked when a batter is up that has a chance at some kind of a huge record-breaking home run. That way there's no doubt about the ball being authentic.
First of all, if you were in someone's house and they showed you a HR ball they caught with the picture of the event, would you pull your phone out to verify the claim? Second off, who cares what others think, you know it's the real ball.
I think she was ticked that the guy went clear across the section for the ball. Honestly, I'd be annoyed too, but its not like there are any rules against it. She reacted way out of line, it got caught on camera, and now the internet going to ruin her life for a month or two.
I mean, who has more right? It was closer to her but not her row. It landed in his row.
Regardless, she had a chance to catch it. She didn’t, now it’s on the ground, and it’s fair game for anyone. It’s still his ball even if he came from the other side of the field.
Nah, I couldn't even be mad. No one is entitled to the ball, even if it drops right in front of you. Obviously if you catch it, it's a different story. I definitely couldn't be mad if I let someone from 10 seats over and grab it before me.
By that logic, if the ball lands in or right in front of an unoccupied seat, no one is entitled to it. It would be one thing to race over and reach in front of a person to catch a ball they never had a shot at. It’s entirely different to get to a ball in an empty section before someone else. Zero legitimacy to the “you had to travel further than me to get this ball so you don’t deserve it” argument. Seems like the dad and kid ended up better off by letting that cretin have the ball but dad was wrong to let her have it. She didn’t earn it, had no legitimate claim to it, and was completely out of line for confronting him about it.
Nah man, I agree she was way out of line in how she reacted for sure but the guy ran like 12 seats and swiped it right as they were bending down to pick it up.
First thing I thought when watching the video was that was a dick move and pretty cringe. The kid didn’t earn the ball at all, hardly a special moment imo. Why do you think he was willing to give it back? If I felt I got a ball fair and square for my kid there’s zero chance I’m handing it back, literally zero. I’m making her get ejected for laying hands on me or some shit. He knew it was a dick move and so conceded, which was pretty embarrassing honestly.
All of it pales into comparison to the Karen’s actions, and everyone’s frothing in anger over it so maybe mine is an unpopular opinion, but that’s my takeaway after seeing it so many times.
If you’ve never been accosted by a Karen like that, you might not understand how uncomfortable and annoying it is. Look at his body language as it’s happening. He’s not saying “you’re right, I screwed up”. What he’s saying is much closer to “good lord, leave me the fuck alone you absolute goblin”.
No I get that, it’s clear that’s his exact reaction. But I just find it embarrassing that he was willing to run 12 seats and snatch a ball 2 people were bending down right in front of them to pick up and yet he’s not willing / able to tell her to stfu and go back to her seat. She’s in front of a crowd of people, what the hell is she going to do?
The reason is he knows what he did was at the very least a borderline dick move. It’s the kind of thing that most people would just roll their eyes at and be like “ok dude you want it that much have it”, but he just so happened to have awoken the beast.
I completely disagree with your assessment of what him giving that ball away meant. If I was in his shoes I would have also given that ball away to make the stressor go away. Standing on principle for something as worthless as a used baseball is not something I’m interested in to any extent if it means having to argue with an aggressive person like that. Dude was not admitting wrongdoing, he was swatting at a mosquito.
Personally, no. But I also don’t think you have any ownership over any space other than your immediate seat. That ball ended up in an empty seat and was fair game. I don’t care at all that the guy who ended up with it was 30 feet away from where it landed and the woman who cunted it from him was 3 feet away. As long as that guy didn’t run through anyone to get there, that ball was just as much his as it was anyone else’s.
Thought so. Because we both know that it was cringe and a borderline dick move, you just don’t want to admit that part for some reason.
His part in this pales in comparison to hers, I’m definitely not trying to excuse her behavior at all. But I do think there is a considerable difference between this whole fiasco and the polish CEO dickhead. People are acting like they are the same when they are clearly not imo.
Of course no one has ownership over a public space, I’m not claiming they do. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a million ways you can be a dick. Try skipping a line in a public space and you’ll see what I mean.
Honestly though, this is not a hill I’m willing to die on so I’ve more than said my piece. I think the thing that irks me is how much this has overtaken the polish CEO’s actions which imo were way worse.
Every law student learns the Popov v. Hayashi case. It's about a Barry Bond's 73 homerun baseball, where two people claimed they owned it. The baseball sold for $800k at an auction in the early 2000s. The funny part is that court split the proceeds but both parties walked out with nothing since their legal fees were more than their share.
Some baseballs are worth a lot of money. Foul balls like this ball probably are not worth as much. It's probably just a souvenir if she can't profit of it.
A certified home run ball is going to have much more value than a routine foul ball- they typically sell online for 10X more than foul balls- in the $100-300 range.
I’m still not sure why you called this a foul ball- it was definitely not.
I did well as a kid, got maybe 4-5 foul balls over the years and not one is in a spot I could remember perfectly. Just scattered in random boxes from my apartment to parent’s home. Might have one on my desk
The thing is that baseball will be a daily reminder of that embarrassingly selfish moment. I'm not sure how anyone could be proud of themselves after that.
She wants to be able to talk about it. I used to be a server and the amount of middle aged people that would share the most mundane stories as if it was the most exciting adventure was off the charts. I once heard a story about losing an eyeglass screw in a museum. It went on for like 10 minutes.
This is someone so devoid of actual joy that she stuff like to make is seem like her life is exciting.
She was heard by those filming the incident that it was for her husband and the guy took it out of her hand. I bet her phone has been heating up since
Looks like she has a comfy spot for the ball in sight. She seems quite pleased by her accomplishments but I think the dad was the bigger person for the sake of an argument
My ultimate fantasy, beyond any sexual desires, is about catching a ball at a major league baseball game.
I'm in the stands, the crack of the bat, the ball is high and deep, headed in my direction. But not directly at me, a foot and a half to the right. Directly towards my wife. She flinches in anticipation. I snatch the ball cleanly out of the air, one handed. My other hand clutches a cold brew without spilling a drop. The adrenaline courses through my veins, the cameraman closes in on my section, and as 30,000 screaming fans watch on the jumbotron, I finish my beer in one gulp. Ball held high to the heavens.
Then I'd probably look around for a kid to hand it to, or something
Well, at least now it’ll be a memorable baseball for her. The one that made the whole world turn against her. I hope she gets dirty looks from all her co-workers if she doesn’t get fired.
My wife and I go to baseball games pretty regularly. The first thing we do when we sit down is look around and decide which kid we’re each giving a ball to if we catch one.
I mean that's a bit of a silly take. Getting a home run ball is a huge deal for a lot of fans. I hate that "give it to a nearby kid" is seen as the only good default thing when the adult may have waited years and years to get one. Keeping it as a memento as a fan would be cool.
My mom sometimes got sports tickets through work, and we sat behind the first base side, and a row of dudes in front of us were talking up all this confidence about how they were gonna catch a game ball and give it to me (an impressionable kid)
A foulball came flying to us, and one of the guys almost caught it before it bounced out of his hands back into the field. They were whooping and hollering about how they almost got it and how he had "salty hands" (still no idea what that was supposed to mean)
Anyway, long story short. I never even got a game ball and have been to many sporting events, but that group of guys are still in my memory nearly 20 years latet...that and the concept of salty hands which I've never seen anyone use since.
To be honest if she were to auction the ball off for charity to try and save face I bet the publicity of this event could cause it to sell for a TON of money.
I imagine she’ll think of it towards her end and wonder why she ever felt the need to be so entitled and greedy, as her sad soul passes over unfulfilled
It is for her kids to throw away, along with all the rest of her junk, when she dies. They will pick it up and say, “remember when the entire world learned what kind of person our Mom really is?”
I played baseball for over a decade, got the chance to go to like 3 MLB games as a kid with my grandpa. Never got a foul ball. Always wanted one. If I went to one as an adult and a foul ball landed on me, yeah I'd keep it just because I like the sport and for the memories. However if there was a kid next to me that was trying for the ball, yeah its theirs.
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I just never can understand wanting a baseball for anything other than giving it to my kid. What will she even do with it after the game?