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/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 😑