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04-20-2015, 08:17 AM #11
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04-20-2015, 08:21 AM #12
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Re: My first/only game at Wrigley, I got "Give it to the kid"
I hate this... last year, im in front row behind the Nationals bullpen. An unknown girl is sitting next to me. The bullpen catcher throws a ball up between the two of us... she doesnt move, I lean forward and catch it. As i am showing my friend, she leans over and says " that was for me." I looked around in disbelief, and stupidly hand her the ball. She didnt say thank you, didnt smile at me, nothing... she just took a pic of it with her stupid phone, put it in her bag and went on to just looking at her phone. It really pissed me off, but sometimes, its easier to just hand it off then deal with B****es
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04-20-2015, 03:31 PM #13
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04-20-2015, 03:34 PM #14
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Re: My first/only game at Wrigley, I got "Give it to the kid"
My uncle and I are closed it was he who took me to my first MLB game at the age of 6. I really wanted to catch a foul ball for him. Took 20 years and maybe 100 games, but Miguel Cabrera throws one randomly into the crowd. That was a really cool moment. Who are these people to insert themselves and who are these kids that they deserve it?
Over time, I've given out plenty of balls. It should be a nice thing to do, not a requirement. It's one thing to yell at a guy who steals it from the kid, but not catches it fairly.
If all of these people yelling really cared about children, we could solve childhood hunger.
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04-20-2015, 03:40 PM #15
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Re: My first/only game at Wrigley, I got "Give it to the kid"
I always bring my girlfriend with and give baseballs to her...no arguments from "the idiots" and the ball is still going into my collection lol
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04-20-2015, 03:42 PM #16
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04-20-2015, 03:49 PM #17
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Re: My first/only game at Wrigley, I got "Give it to the kid"
Always looking for Noah Syndergaard, Charlie Blackmon, Jordan Pacheco & Kenneth Faried items, thx!
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04-20-2015, 04:14 PM #18
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Re: My first/only game at Wrigley, I got "Give it to the kid"
I agree with all of you. Ignore the chant "give it to the kid". Maybe I am too old fashioned, but I always felt that one should "earn" a ball hit or thrown into the stands, not have it given to them by begging the fan who made the catch. When I was a kid, I would refuse any offerings as I felt like if I didn't come up with the ball myself when it went in to the stands, I didn't deserve to have it.
I will never forget being 12-years old and grabbing my first foul ball at a Southern League game at historic Rickwood Field. What a thrill it was when I came up with the ball that had landed beneath my seat! I have grabbed many more over the years at Southern League and Carolina League games, and have handed off a few to my nephew, friend's kids, etc., but I always felt that it would be a bit awkward if I was to give the ball to some tyke that I did not know who was begging me unmercifully. I often want to say, "Earn it for yourself, kid!", but I refrain and politely say that I am taking it home to my nephew/neighbor's kid/etc. I recently gave a ball to one of my best friend's sons. That was much more rewarding and meaningful to me than handing it off to a stranger.
While I have had much success at minor league games, I have yet to come up with a foul ball at any of the hundreds of major league games I have attended over the years (several embarrassing drops ). You better believe, even at my advanced age, that I am not about to give it up if one ever lands in my hands.
Sure, it's just a ball, but I'm still a kid at heart when I go to a ball game, and it is something that I want to hold on to for the memory.
Mark Hayne
Gridiron Exchange
P.S. It is VERY BAD BEHAVIOR if you plow through kids in your attempt to grab a ball. But if it lands in your hands, or else you come up with the ball cleanly without mowing anyone down in the process, it's yours with no guilt attached - period!
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04-20-2015, 09:11 PM #19
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04-21-2015, 01:15 PM #20
Re: My first/only game at Wrigley, I got "Give it to the kid"
I would have just kept the ball.
When it comes to sports, aren't we ALL just kids at heart?
Plus, most of us never had the chance to get one, as a kid or now.
I was at BP once, and a young pretty blonde girl was tossed a ball.
Then another player minutes later that didn't see she already had one, threw her another ball. In the end she got like FOUR balls because she was young and cute.
Then some 10-12 yo boys were next to me when a line drive one hop came our way. It was just to my right, I LET the kid take it........... because he's a kid. Then one was coming straight at me, HE reached in front of ME!!!
So now he has TWO. I then told him, "I don't care how old you are, don't be rude".
It goes both ways. I'd never got a ball when I was a kid, so in my mind still waiting to get a ball made me feel like a kid. I finally got the on hop line drive. I no longer go down for BP for that reason, and the fact that they don't use gamers for BP. I can also usually find game used balls on sale for $10 at the end of the year.