Thanks for a great post, Dave!

People do it here at Chase Field pretty routinely. (Although, ironically, when the Cubs are in town and one of those guys hits a home run, it doesn't get thrown back because the stands are full of Cubs fans and chances are that one of them caught or chased it down.)

I'm usually one of those who say that MLB needs to minimize the rule-making and confine it to the actual game, letting the individual teams and ballparks police their own yards - but in this instance, it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all to see the Commissioner lay down an edict about the practice if most teams continue to let it happen.