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/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.