Biggest idiot of the 2010 WS...?

[sox83cubs84]

Never mind a manager having a brain cramp, or a runner getting picked off first. I'll give it to the Rangers fan who threw back Andres Torres' 8th inning home run a few hours ago.

The guy obviously isn't a collector, but doesn't this boob realize what he could get for it on the hobby market, if he had video of the play?

And...this knucklehead isn't even a Wrigley Field bleacher drunk!

Dave Miedema

[trsent]

Never mind a manager having a brain cramp, or a runner getting picked off first. I'll give it to the Rangers fan who threw back Andres Torres' 8th inning home run a few hours ago.

The guy obviously isn't a collector, but doesn't this boob realize what he could get for it on the hobby market, if he had video of the play?

And...this knucklehead isn't even a Wrigley Field bleacher drunk!

Dave Miedema

Dave, not everyone is looking to make a dollar every time they catch a baseball.

[nationals2k9]

Dave, not everyone is looking to make a dollar every time they catch a baseball.

+1

I'm guessing that being at the Rangers first World Series home game EVER and throwing that "trash" back on the field is far more empowering and memorable than making a few bucks off the ball. That said, I understand that your passion for getting a baseball like that drives you to think a certain way when you see someone else do that with a ball. I'm guessing many of us think similarly about our favorite things in the hobby.

[camarokids]

I'm guessing many of us think similarly about our favorite things in the hobby.

Reminds me of the Cardinals Spring Training camp where employees were throwing broken bats away in the dumpster.........

[Bravesfan]

That fan is probably a bigger fan than any of us.

[flota89]

Reminds me of the Cardinals Spring Training camp where employees were throwing broken bats away in the dumpster.........

I almost had a heart attack watching that.

[godwulf]

I'm told that the practice of throwing the other team's home run balls back onto the field originated at Wrigley - whatever. It's stupid, whether it's in a World Series game or any other. It makes doing The Wave look like pure genius. And it doesn't make you a better fan.

[trsent]

I personally have a hard time understanding why anyone would throw a baseball back. I have gone to maybe 500 baseball games in my life, most before 1994. I have been given two baseball from the final out over the dugout and that is all.

I had a foul ball off Frank Thomas (Big Hurt) hit my hand, after hitting a little girl's hand and fly away. My hand hurt for a week or so. That was the closest I ever game to getting a baseball in the stands in around 500 lifetime games.

So, if a lucky moron finally catches a ball in the stands and throws it back, they fulfilled their dreams and gave it right back.

[LastingsMilledge85]

Whoa whoa whoa...there's still at least three more games left, let's wait before we crown the biggest idiot of the WS. On another note, these fools that throw the HR balls back will pay a big price someday. It's bound to happen someday that a fan that throws a ball back will strike the outfielder and then charges will be pressed.

[justinbittner220]

I don't know if the act of throwing the ball back was necessarily dumb or not...

Do you think that seeing a fan throw the homerun ball back would inspire the Rangers or give them inspiration knowing that the fans are behind them?

Don't get me wrong though, as a collector, it is sad to see, but as a fan, I think it's pretty cool.