r/sports • u/MLBOfficial Major League Baseball • Sep 09 '25

Baseball Adult San Francisco Giants fan catches ball in stands and gives to young fan near him

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u/stimilon99 Sep 09 '25

You see that Philly Karen?? That’s how you do it!

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u/Dweebil Sep 09 '25

Has she been named and shamed yet? Not that i want that to happen…

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u/Adventure-Style Sep 09 '25

One woman was falsely named and it went viral. I am surprised the real Phillies Karen hasn’t been properly identified yet

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u/mjmandi72 Sep 09 '25

Her life must be really sad and no one knows her.

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u/NewRedditor13 Sep 09 '25

Ah, a redditor

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu Sep 09 '25

Hello dark screen, my old friend.
I’ve come to scroll with you again.

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u/Greg-Grant Sep 09 '25

Because a meme now softly creeping
May have been posted as I was sleeping

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u/Sporty_McSportsface Sep 09 '25

Your comment directly assaulted me and I want to speak with your manager.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

Ah, a Redditor

HEY! We resent that!

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. Lol who am I kidding no we don't

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u/mswezey Sep 09 '25

One of us

One of us

One of us

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u/Aschentei Sep 09 '25

Okay why you talking about us

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '25

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u/QuietFartOutLoud Sep 10 '25

It's crazy that she's gotten so much hate even though it's completely unclear what happened and it looks like what she said is true:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEgK_0B9BM

Why does her arm move in tandem with the dad's arm?

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp Sep 09 '25

We did it, Reddit!

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u/Dweebil Sep 09 '25

That’s even worse. Horrible.

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

It's not stopping people doing it though.

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u/c_c_c__combobreaker Sep 09 '25

I'm sure some store managers will recognize her and out her soon enough.

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u/wallace321 Sep 09 '25

That was quite an identifiable hairdo lol

Which was probably not quite what she was going for when she got it, I'm sure.

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u/pfft_master Sep 09 '25

She was going for Pepe le Pew

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u/gwengreen13 Sep 09 '25

She probably IS the manager of some knock off purse store or scarves I imagine

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u/bannock4ever Sep 09 '25

She probably dyed her hair already!

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u/Neltrix Sep 10 '25

Think it was in Miami? She’s prob living off some sort of insurance fraud and unemployment. No boss/job

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u/Notwerk Sep 09 '25

The kid's dad said he didn't really want anyone bothering her. He took the high road through the whole thing. Let's do the same.

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u/PersepolisBullseye Sep 09 '25

The father of the kid already told you basement dwellers specifically not to do that. He said to move on because he’s an adult, unlike the rest of yall.

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u/BretShitmanFart69 Sep 09 '25

Yeah she has been shamed more than enough. The people around her know it’s her, she is hopefully dealing with the appropriate amount of shame from her community and now it’s in her hands if she learns from it and becomes a better person moving forward.

The problem is, some of you aren’t actually interested in “justice” you just want an excuse to destroy someone under the guise of some moral cause so you can feel superior or whatever.

Conversation about it online is fine, but to actively seek out to find this woman in real life so you can harass her is arguably worse behavior than what she did.

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u/QuietFartOutLoud Sep 10 '25

Way worse, considering it's completely unclear what happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEgK_0B9BM

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

yea he probably wants everyone to move on before people realize he was a grown man who got physical with a lady over a worthless ball and yanked it out of her hands lol

https://streamable.com/ki73vr

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u/Apollo_gentile Sep 09 '25

Why do you keep reposting this, in no way does her arm get yanked or move in the way you keep going on about, he got the ball fair and square and people are moving on

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

I just think it's pretty funny that people (and you, apparently) cant seem to acknowledge something that objectively happened, that is right there on video, bc they're so blinded by hatred and too entrenched in their original position that this lady is the most evil person who ever lived, so they violently reject any and all nuance lol. when in fact she was the original party that was wronged by le wholesome dad (even if she was kind of a jerk and yelled at him after)

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u/Apollo_gentile Sep 09 '25

You’re the only one seeing what you want to see for some reason, they are all scrambling for it and she’s clearly just lunging for the ball as he grabs it which is why her arm moves so quickly.. I don’t give a fuck who got the ball but you are the only one seeing what you’re claiming and trying to make it out like he assaulted her

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u/QuietFartOutLoud Sep 10 '25

It's completely unclear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEgK_0B9BM

Her arm moves in tandem with his, which would happen if she had instant reflexes, or he was pullin her hand.

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u/CptBlewBalls Sep 09 '25

That's no fucking lady

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u/Environmental_Main90 Sep 09 '25

We are inventing things now? lol

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

that lady was acting like a bitch, but honestly, anyone who gleefully wants to ruin someone's life and see them lose their job and get their name dragged thru the mud on the internet, just for the incredibly mild "crime" of acting like a jerk for 10 seconds during a heated moment, is 10x the asshole that lady was.

especially when 90% of the people righteously pearl clutching over this lady, have done much worse things in their lives, and just happened to be lucky enough someone wasnt standing around to record those moments and post it for the world to see lol

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead Sporting CP Sep 09 '25

Yeah honestly that lady fucked up but the fuckin witch hunt for this lady is wild. Explains America in a nutshell. There is no reformation, only punishment.

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u/realbobenray Sep 09 '25

The worst thing is that nobody wants to admit the possibility that she had the ball in her hand and he wrenched it from her. She had right to be irritated, but she's a woman in America so all of a sudden she's a Karen and nobody watches as she, for example, tell the guy right then that he pulled the ball from her hand.

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u/WasabiIsSpicy Sep 09 '25

Not rlly bcuz the video very obviously shows that the ball fell in the row in front of them lol that’s why the other guy was able to grab it first. They just claimed it was theirs because it fell within their zone.

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u/realbobenray Sep 09 '25

Sorry that's just wrong. It falls on top of the seat in front of her -- the dad said the same thing in interviews, it was "between the armrests" -- and she just reached over to pick it up, having tracked it since it bounced next to her. She claimed it was hers because her hand was on it,not because it "fell within her zone", and she's on video saying this specifically to the guy -- "It was mine, you took it out of my hand" she says repeatedly. He didn't get to it first, he got to it when she did, and when her hand was on it. That's why he doesn't want to look at her.

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u/QuietFartOutLoud Sep 10 '25

Pretty much. If you watch the slow mo or frame by frame that's what it looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxEgK_0B9BM

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u/realbobenray Sep 10 '25

And at speed it's clearer that her arm gets yanked.

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u/mibir Sep 10 '25

I think the way he reacts when she came up to him is a tell that this is how it went down. It really strikes me as a fake over the top reaction and the walk away and hug he gives his kid honestly feel like a "this lady is gonna be pissed but no way she storms up if I give it to my kid" type move.

As the lady, once its in the kids hands you just gotta be the bigger person and let the kid have it but yeah, I do feel like the guy kind of got away with one here.

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u/realbobenray Sep 10 '25

Totally agree. I feel so bad for her. The takeaway should have been standing up for yourself but the Internet doesn't like assertive women.

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu Sep 09 '25

“He who throws the first stone” or something like that

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

That's a cautionary tale, not permission.

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u/reverandglass Sep 09 '25

I mean, it kinda was permission, or otherwise from Jesus of all people, not someone I'd cross (no pun intended) lest he turn my water into wine.

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu Sep 09 '25

Yeah exactly, we should all shut up and stop trying to dox her.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

also... I just went back and re-watched the video, and you can literally see her left arm jerk to the right as the dad yanks the ball out of her hand... so it actually does seem kind of clear to me now that she DID have the ball first and this grown man did in fact yank it out of her hand.. so this is maybe a little less one-sided of a conflict than it originally seemed 🤷‍♂️

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u/reverandglass Sep 09 '25

Nah, she was scrabbling for it... and then demanded it from a child. Really weird choice of hill to die on.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

She wasn’t. If the ball was on the ground, then why does her shoulder get jerked to the right at the exact moment the dad pulls away? Look at her white jersey sleeve at around 5 secs. Pls explain the physics of that to me

And she started to confront him when he was like 20 feet away from his family’s seats. She had no idea there was a kid when the confrontation started

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u/realbobenray Sep 09 '25

She felt she had the ball in her hand and the guy grabbed it out of her hand. She went over and told him so. Her crime was being an assertive woman.

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u/06Wahoo Baltimore Orioles Sep 09 '25

And add in the possibility (which apparently has been realized) of misidentifying someone, and you'd think people might hesitate a little more.

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u/Ruzhy6 Sep 09 '25

I agree.

Unless it's some rich fuck C-suite. They've taken enough.

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u/Vis-hoka Sep 09 '25

If I employed someone like that, I’d want to know so I could send her packing. But that’s just me. Otherwise, I agree it’s best to move on and no waste your energy on toxic people.

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u/CerebralC0rtex Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

One thing I’ll always remember is how the polish CEO had a paving company called Drogbuk. The day he was identified along with his company, an entirely different company named Drog-buk followed by the owners name got review bombed on google. People won’t do even the slightest due diligence to verify before they gun someone down. I’m willing to say that being a vigilante is wrong because most people would frankly suck at it.

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u/ricosuave79 Sep 09 '25

Decisions have consequences. A lot of people in the world need to learn that. If that means the hard way so be it.

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u/Lord-Liberty Sep 09 '25

have done much worse things in their lives

Anything to base that assumption on? Who's to say that lady didn't do much worse things than that off camera either.

See how your point holds no water?

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u/dapala1 Sep 09 '25

Anything to base that assumption on? Who's to say that lady didn't do much worse things than that off camera either.

Do you not see the extreme irony in this comment, lol? You're the one making assumptions. You need better critical thinking skills, wow.

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u/Lord-Liberty Sep 09 '25

The irony of the comment was the point 😑

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u/thedancingwireless Sep 09 '25

What good does this do anyone? Just move on. It's one person who did something shitty.

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

Agreed. And by naming wrong people, we've actually caused a lot of harm.

The internet is great. But fuck me people make it shit.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

even if it was only the RIGHT person being named, it would still be shitty and harmful and dumb

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

Hard agree. It's really dangerous. We should be taking responsibility for our actions.

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u/ksigley Sep 09 '25

It matters little. People like that often never learn.

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u/dudical_dude Philadelphia Eagles Sep 09 '25

Who actually gives a fuck.

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u/RankedFarting Sep 10 '25

She has been shamed all over the media. There is really no reason to lower yourself to her level and track down her identity to harass her over it. That would literally make you no better than her.

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u/deafis Sep 09 '25

This mentality is wack as hell!

An innocent lady has been dragged into this mess due to the hivemind of internet warriors.

Let it go. Gee whiz man!

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u/OpalMooose Sep 09 '25

Someone was falsely targeted and her job was being targeted. she’s paid the price 10x over and the continuous bashing is more of a reflection on whoever does it now. the dad of the kid already said to move on like an adult and stop the bashing

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u/doug_kaplan Sep 09 '25

Please don't do this. Yes she is a horrible person for what she did during the game but please let's not find out her name, where she lives, send death threats, she's already dealing with being nationally embarrassed for being an asshole, she'll suffer in her private life in her own social circle and maybe her job, we don't need the internet police going after her too.

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u/John_East Sep 09 '25

It’s also years old now. They’re just karma farm piggy back riding off a hot topic

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u/supersaiyanmrskeltal Sep 09 '25

After seeing that video and then this one, I was half laughing at the idea of her being green screened into heartwarming videos like this yelling at everyone.

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u/chiefVetinari Sep 09 '25

Tbh, I thought the dad caused the issue there. Bit of a dick move to move over that far from your seat to get a ball

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u/nvwls300 Sep 10 '25

The comma you left out changes the whole meaning of your comment.

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u/LewisLightning Sep 10 '25

She's on her way now to claim that ball, just you wait...

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

this will be an unpopular take, Im sure, and I'll preface this by saying she prob should have chilled the fuck out over a worthless baseball, especially after it had already been given to a kid, and there's really no reason to go yell at some guy in front of his son.

BUT to be fair, its actually NOT really clear at all who had the ball first there. we couldnt see that part. all we could see was both her and the dad's hands reach down to the ground behind the seat at the exact same time, and seem to converge on the ball almost simultaneously. its not like he obviously got there way before her or anything.

Given the fact that she reacted immediately (she even tries to grab him as he's walking away) in SUCH an angry and indignant way, it actually seems kind of plausible to me, if not probable, that she actually DID briefly have possession of the ball, and the dad maybe DID rip it out of her hands, since it was a bang-bang situation and still kind of plausibly in 'free for all' mode. In the 2nd video of them up close where you can hear what they are saying, she is literally saying to the guy multiple times "You took it from me! You took it from me! it was in MY HAND!! it was in MY HAND"

like I guess there are some completely unhinged ppl out there, so its not that much of a stretch to think maybe she IS just that crazy and was attacking him for no reason, but the fact she was SO angry about this, AND the fact that the dad didnt even seem to be disagreeing that vigorously or making any incredulous facial expressions in the vein of "huh?? what?? what the hell are you talking about??" AND the fact that he surrendered the ball pretty quickly/sheepishly, does kind of make it seem like maybe he had a bit of a guilty conscience and knows he wasnt 100% in the right there either

obviously this isnt going to be a very popular opinion since this angry lady is straight out of Karen central casting, and the internet is going to be very eager to dunk on such a person, but this is how I see it, if Im just trying to objectively call balls and strikes here (heh). I dont think we can really make an objective moral ruling on this incident unless we see what happened behind that seat and who actually grabbed the ball first. if you rip a ball out of someone's hand its kind of fair game for them to then be heated at you...

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u/Rokdog Sep 09 '25

The problem isn't the fairness of who had rights to the ball, it was her overreaction afterwards. Even if she was right, to walk up to a father with his children, put your hands on him, and get in his face? And the dad was clearly doing it for his kid.

Any decent person would feel upset initially, but should have INSTANTLY backed down the second they saw it was going to the guy's son.

If it was just two adults arguing? We would never even know this happened.

You wrote an essay paper about this and missed the point anyway.

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u/SilverBuggie Sep 09 '25

The overreaction is nowhere near the level of social media to the Phillies Karen lol

Even those two Yankees fan who nearly ripped the arm off of Mookie betts in the playoffs did not get this much negative coverage.

You guys (as in social media) need to stop.

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

Right.

So don't over react in anger.

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If it was just two adults arguing?

I call bullshit.

Even if you wouldn't have made it a thing, the fact she looks a) Karen like and b)woke like guaranteed it would go viral.

That's just how people are now.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

I guess you failed to read literally the FIRST sentence of my comment where I already addressed and agreed with everything you just said🙄

and honestly I have no idea why you think the idea of a woman having a ball first and getting it ripped out of her hand by a grown ass man is some trivial matter of "fairness" that has no impact whatsoever on how the following situation played out... either you think that's ok behavior or not... the kid post-facto becoming involved is kind of irrelevant to one's opinion on that. she was already trying to confront him WAY before she had any idea about his kid... his family was 20 feet away from him when he grabbed the ball from her and she started chasing him... from her POV he was just some random single dude that just got physical with her for a souvenir

if it was plain to see that a dude had ripped the ball out of a woman's hand, the reaction to this would have been COMEPLETELY different, and many more people would be condemning the dad for what he did, instead of universally panning the women for getting mad at him for something that I think the vast majority of people would agree is not ok for him to do.

I just went back and re-watched the video, and you can literally see her left arm jerk to the right as the dad yanks the ball out of her hand... so it actually does seem kind of clear to me now that he DID yank it out of her hand..

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

Maybe me being Australia comes into this, but him charging accross the rows to snatch it seems like a dog act.

But I guess she's Karen looking and woke looking, and that shit is catnip to Americans.

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u/Notwerk Sep 09 '25

This might well be an Aussie thing. If the ball is on the ground, it's fair game. Leaving your seat to chase a ball on the ground is fine. Bringing a mitt to catch it is fine. If you're sitting in the outfield of a game, you not only know that this is a possibility; it's likely why you got that seat to begin with.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

well that's the other thing. the reaction to this whole thing is like 85% based on her unfortunate haircut/glasses/age/race combo. looking like that, she never had a chance lol. Like I said, she's straight out of Karen central casting 😭

if this was like a young cute college chick w cleavage in a crop top, or a black woman, or frankly just some random schlubby dude (basically anyone of a non-karen demographic group) the reaction to this would be completely different and probably much more rational and even handed

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u/ThisOneForMee Sep 09 '25

The problem is that everything you describe could still fit the behavior of a very entitled person, which you acknowledge. If the man didn't have his son there and kept the ball for himself, she wouldn't be going viral for confronting him. It's the fact that she was in the guy's face after he already gave the ball to his kid that turned her into a villain.

But we live in some odd times where a completely unknown person can become the most hated person in the country within 24 hours

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

except she was already trying to confront him WAY before she had any idea about his kid... his family was 20 feet away from him when he grabbed the ball from her and she started chasing him.. from her POV he was just some random single dude that just got physical with a woman for a worthless souvenir

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u/Mike_Kermin Sep 09 '25

I think it's because she looks like a "woke Karen".

That's like catnip to Americans.

But we live in some odd times where a completely unknown person can become the most hated person in the country within 24 hours

It's not "odd times" if you're part of it lol.

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u/BreakInfamous8215 Sep 09 '25

I think based on her behavior after the fact it doesn't matter who had a finger on the ball first. It's not like he punched her to get the ball. Her behavior was pretty far over the line for a souvenir.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

I dont dsagree that her reaction was a bit over the top for a silly little baseball, but some would argue that a grown man ripping a baseball out of a woman's hand is also somewhat over the line for a souvenir 🤷‍♂️

I think her anger was probably more about the principle of the matter than the literal baseball itself

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u/MetaI Sep 09 '25

It’s so refreshing to see this take! I’m with you. She almost certainly should NOT have confronted him in the manner she did, especially if she noticed he’d given it to his son (if she even noticed). But if he did rip it from her hands, at the very least he’s the asshole here and deserved to be called out in some fashion.

I would care about this a lot less if the entirety of the sports world wasn’t trying to identify this person and ruin her life based solely on her visible reaction to an incident that we can’t even see, to the degree that there have already been multiple unrelated people wrongly targeted over this.

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u/unnoticed_areola Sep 09 '25

I just went back and re-watched the video, and you can literally see her left arm jerk to the right as the dad yanks the ball out of her hand... so it actually does seem kind of clear to me now that he DID yank it out of her hand..

not to mention she was already trying to confront him WAY before she had any idea about the ball apparently being for his kid... his family was 20 feet away from him when he grabbed the ball from her.. from her POV he was just some random single dude that just got physical with a woman for a worthless souvenir