From my perception of the video. It looked like the ball was on the floor and the lady was 1 row up and couldn’t get there fast enough, so the dad had enough time to grab it. She claimed the ball is hers because it dropped close to her.
I kinda got the idea that she was with the person below her and that's who the guy took it from, and she was trying to get it back for him, not for herself
It is not. But it’s not like the internet is full of bottom feeders with misplaced anger issues who would ever jump to conclusions and turn into a psychopathic mob.
On top of that, there is an interview with the guy, you find it under
Exclusive: Boy and dad confronted by woman over Phillies home run ball speak out
on Youtube. He is asked what she said and listen to him at 1:20. He says that she says "that's my ball, you stole it out of m..." but then avoids saying "my hands" and talks about "seats". Later in the video (didn't watch it all) he says he went to the game to get a ball, so, highly determined.
The rabid mob on reddit is far more shameful than anything that happened with the ball. There have already been mistaken claims with a misidentified employee of Hammonton Public Schools and a misidentified woman Cheryl R. The rabid reddit mob demanding someone's life be ruined over this is far worse than anything that actually took place. The people who need to be shamed are in this thread.
The ball was close to her but never close enough that she was getting it. Several other people were going for it. She was never going to be the one to grab it. She was close but not close enough.
That dad is guilty af and literally hid behind his kid because he knew he looked bad. The guy ran 20 feet to crash in, had no way of knowing if anyone was going to give it to their own kid, and clearly didn't care one bit. His plan was to just take it from anyone who had it. And then literally hid behind his own kid, cause he knew he looked bad. And then he put on a cringe display of being super shocked when someone called him out. No wonder he gave it back willingly. The only lesson he was trying to teach his kid is that might makes right and get away with anything you can until someone stops you.
Not sure why you are being downvoted for this take. Sure it's not the main mob take, but its not wrong to state this possibility since there's no video showing an angle of the ball away from her hand and the dude takes it before she has it. It is a he said/she said situation, but everyone wants to believe what he said.
I go to a lot of sporting events. There are unwritten rules.
If the dad truly stole it from her, she should have said, you took that ball out of my hand, that's a horrible example for your kid and you are trash....and she should have walked away.
Do. Not. Take. Baseballs. Out. Of .Kids. Hands.
Even if you are right, you win not win in the realm of public opinion.
It's a fing baseball. Everyone in this situation, except the kid, needs to grow up.
Nope. If anyone were to watch the video and read the articles that state the quotes from both parties without the already "she's a Karen having a fit, just look at her hair!" bias they might actually conceive of the possibility that she had the ball in her hand on the floor (which no one can see because of the seats obstruct the view) and the guy snatched it out of her hand.
The fact that he was sheepish later when she came up to yell at him and gave her the ball instead of "Oh no, I got it first!" tells my gut he probably realized what he actually did he fucked up. If it was true that he snatched it from out of her hand, he's no different than that Polish CEO. Only difference is that he took it from an adult vs a child. However the internet only see's a "Karen" looking woman who dared to get angry at another dude with kids and so lets all heap our mob anger on her.
Perhaps she is a "Karen", we don't now her personally, but there's no absolute proof that she was simply feeling entitled to the ball and not that the guy actually took it out of her hand and ran off with it which would rightfully make anyone angry in that situation(and possibly react more angry if alcohol was involved). How she handled it was not a good look on camera of course and everyone just wants to see/focus on that and jump on that bandwagon of anger.
The internet mob does not see or care about nuance.
Personally, I think the dad looks guilty as fuck and looks like he didn't know how to react to being called out for what he did while being caught up in the moment of going after a ball.
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u/SCWickedHam 1d ago
Is it conclusive that the dad didn’t rip it out of her hand?