Can you tell someone's politics just by how they look and act in public? Some might argue you can't, but I'm going to suggest you can get pretty darn close.
Things got heated on Friday night at a Marlins-Phillies game in Florida (yes, the Marlins are apparently still an MLB team), with home run ball being the point of contention. In a video that is absolutely everywhere now on social media, a chop-topped woman in pointy glasses can be seen rushing at and verbally accosting a father and son after she failed to secure the ball for herself.
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Multiple angles of the incident have now been released, including one from the stands.
According to the tape, this woman was one of several who attempted to catch the ball. I'm not seeing much evidence she ever even touched it, though. Not that it would have mattered, as I'll explain shortly.
Still, the father, who was part of the scrum, was able to pick the ball up off the ground a full row down from the lady, at which point he walked it over to his son and put it in his glove. It was a typical moment you'd see at a baseball park. The kind of thing memories are made of...until this happened.
I figured the etiquette of foul and home run balls was well known, but perhaps I overestimated its proliferation. Thus, I'm going to be nice and explain to this woman how all this works.
If you are at a baseball game and are an adult, you must secure the catch in order to gain ownership of a ball that flies into the stands. Being one of several people holding their hands out does not give you dibs, even if the ball manages to graze your fingertips. You have to catch the ball in order to keep the ball. There is one exception. If a child tries to catch a ball and drops it, then etiquette demands the ball be picked up by the nearest adult and given to the kid. That cordialness is one of the things that makes baseball games special.
But no, if you're a chop-topped Katie Couric look-alike who almost assuredly voted for Kamala Harris and has multiple cats, there is no carve-out for you. You either catch the ball, or it's not your ball. You also shouldn't be getting in the face of a father and son to rant and rave about how your lack of athleticism let you down. Take the loss, and move on. Besides, they were all fans of the same team. The right decision is to high-five the kid.
Still, in the face of this woman screaming for the manager, the father relented and gave up the ball. There was a happy ending, though.
Representatives from the stadium brought out a bag of hit balls along with some other cool stuff to give to the kid. Meanwhile, the woman in question was booed until she left the game early. I suppose that's a fitting conclusion, and maybe, just maybe, she'll feel bad about how this all went down.
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