Wrigley field home run catch

[metsbats]

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/70087564/v35286217/


This is great. I think we discussed doing this on an older thread.

[r_phelps]

That was an epic catch

[sox83cubs84]

I don't think THAT one will end up on eBay.

Dave Miedema

[TimothyJ]

The fan threw it back after that catch?!

[Chess2899]

No, he switched it out with his dog's play toy ball. He even handled the switch nicely.

[godwulf]

Well, here's me being a curmudgeon again - but I happen to think that the stupid, Wrigley Field "tradition" of throwing home run balls back - which has infected all of MLB, of course - has run its course, and I'd like to start seeing people who do it escorted out of the ballpark. They DO, after all, warn that "throwing any object onto the playing field" is prohibited, do they not? Enough!

[lengthwise1]

Well, here's me being a curmudgeon again - but I happen to think that the stupid, Wrigley Field "tradition" of throwing home run balls back - which has infected all of MLB, of course - has run its course, and I'd like to start seeing people who do it escorted out of the ballpark. They DO, after all, warn that "throwing any object onto the playing field" is prohibited, do they not? Enough!

Coors Field will boot you for throwing one back

[godwulf]

Coors Field will boot you for throwing one back

Excellent!

Now if we could just make it legally permissable to slap somebody who starts "the Wave"...

[sox83cubs84]

Well, here's me being a curmudgeon again - but I happen to think that the stupid, Wrigley Field "tradition" of throwing home run balls back - which has infected all of MLB, of course - has run its course, and I'd like to start seeing people who do it escorted out of the ballpark. They DO, after all, warn that "throwing any object onto the playing field" is prohibited, do they not? Enough!

Agreed WHOEHEARTEDLY! The only way I'd throw one back is if the runs came off the board when I did it. The Unfriendly Confines has looked the other way for decades while this idiotic "tradition" was carried out. The drunks in the bleachers have done everything from chase a fan out of the bleachers to stripping a kid of his offending ball to throw garbage at an uncooperative fan to intimidate seniors. Of the home runs I caught off visitors' bats at Wrigley, I never threw one back and, while I had nothing thrown at me, the cursing and verbal abuse was extreme. When I hung out there, even the Ballhawks were intimidated by the bleacher boobs. When I refused to throw one back, someone would cave and toss one back for me.

If you're throwing something on the field, you should be ejected...PERIOD! Although the Cubs, sadly, use the excuse that the players on the field are looking for the returning baseball. Just more babble from a piss-poor management who has created a monster and now has no balls nor desire to subdue it.

Dave Miedema

[godwulf]

If I got ahold of an other-team home run ball, I would probably give it to the nearest fan wearing that team's gear - unless it had been hit by somebody like Jeter, I guess, and then I'd be thinking of the best way to have the thing authenticated and get a few bucks for it. Maybe an impromptu auction in the stands?

Just curious - has anyone ever seen this silly behavior at a minor league game?