It’s like the 9th or 10th one down on the frontpage.
The guy got dissed by Sanders in that clip: “That guy’s not worth talking about.” I love it.
Strange, it didn’t ask me to register, and I’m certain I never registered at that site before. ::shrug::
Here’s another item I found on the web about it. I like Steve Kline even more now:
Hmmmm, maybe it wasn’t as troublesome as it appeared. I just start seeing all this hibjazz about download “Full Motion”, and its alt + F4. 
I heard somewhere that the guy and his girlfriend ended up leaving seperately.
I bet he’s in the doghouse for a long, long time.
You’re a bit confused. Tim McCarver was busy at the time talking about Derek Jeter while televising another game.
How do I know? Because McCarver wouldn’t have stopped talking about Jeter long enough to say anything.
I wonder if his insurance covers “removing foreign object from colon”?
Give it a day or two and the whole country will know his name, too 
He’s so not getting laid for the next decade or so …
On the subject of the fuckwicket’s being dissed at work (hey, I learned a new word! Fuckwicket!), I was just thinking…
A lot of companies have clauses in the employment agreement/handbook/written rules the employee must follow that state something to the effect that the employee can be terminated for doing something that would bring a bad name/reputation on the company.
If this guy works for a company that has one of these clauses, and he’s in a position where he deals with the public, or where he could be recognized by people who do business with the company…
Customer #1- “Hey, isn’t he the fuckwicket who stomped on a little kid at a Rangers game to grab a foul ball from him?”
Customer #2- “Hey, aren’t you the fuckwicket who stomped on a little kid at a Rangers game to get a foul ball?”
Next customer to come in-" Um, could I talk to the manager? Yeah, I’m not real sure I want to be doing business with a company that employs the kind of fuckwicket who would stomp on a little kid at a baseball game to get a foul ball before the kid could get to it."
Manager- “Um, Fuckwicket? I’m afraid I’m going to have to let you go…”
argh! I am so glad this was on SDMB. I saw it on TV too and it infuriated me. I’m surprised we don’t already know his name, like Bartman et al.
OK. Let me preface this by saying that the guy certainly is a fuckwit. I’ll bet that Cubs fan guy is pretty relieved to be replaced by that guy…
However, it looks to me like he bumped into the kid after he fell and wasn’t in control, not “get outta my way you little brat…BAM!” Plus, the kid didn’t seem to be going for the ball anyway.
Now, the guy fucked up and should have given the kid the ball. His behavior after the incident certainly was reprehensible. But judging from that snip of footage, it was not clear to me that he “bowled the kid over”. Maybe the clip I saw wasn’t the best shot, etc. ::shrug::
Oh, and I’d definitely give the ball to the kid…
I must be seeing a different video. The one I watched shows a grown man jumping (not falling) over a row of seats, body checking and kicking a little kid in the process. Once he chooses to dive into the next row, he loses any right to the “it was an accident” defense. He then, as he’s getting up, hip-checked the kid hard enough to have knocked him over if said kid hadn’t been holding the seat in front of him, and makes no attempt to apologize or comfort either the kid or the woman he forced aside to get the ball. That he may have disregarded the safety of the kid and the woman sitting in front of him rather than planned to shove them aside hardly mitigates his behavior.
Geez folks, you act like one of probably a dozen baseballs hit into the stands in one random game out of 2,500 over the course of the season isn’t something more valuable than all the riches of the all the kings of all the four corners of the world and certainly not something to be given up lightly. This man is set for life, now that he has a “FOUL BALL”.
That was the kid’s first game ever. He was only four years old. The jerk never made an attempt to apologize, heckled the crowd, etc, etc. It’s not about him giving the ball to the kid, it’s about his complete and utter lack of concern for this poor kid’s wellbeing. Plus, I read a quote where the kid thought that was normal for a baseball game and didn’t understand.
Take out the ball entirely. Would you shrug and say it was okay for a guy to do such physical actions against the kid in a normal situation? He would have been arrested.
Besides, it’s how society works as a whole. The kid is “the underdog being oppressed by the topdog”, loosely said. We react like this a lot.
but yeah. I doubt if he had shown an ounce of compassion and not egged on the crowd, this wouldn’t be all over the TVs and internet today. Even if he hadn’t given the ball back. Because the kid wasn’t going for it himself [again, you just have the tradition of some people giving away fall balls to little kids as souvenirs, even stranger’s kids].
/Shadez
Don’t lose hope - A Father’s Day Anecdote - My Dad always wanted to catch a ball, a real baseball fan who’d been bringing his mitt to the games since he was a child. But he’d never really come close.
One day after work he took our family to a Reds game - not great seats, upper right field. So he’s got his wife and teenagers there, he’s wearing a suit, and he’s also brought his camera, as is his habit. Dad took a lot of pictures. In particular, he snapped a photo as the baseball was coming off the bat (can’t recall who’d hit it), then stood up and caught the ball bare-handed, no bobbling. People came up congratulating him all evening.
I was getting very worried about this post until it ended in “I know who to give the ball to if I catch one”.
I definitely saw it the way you did. The kid wasn’t even paying attention to the game, even after the 200-pound lunkhead landed near him. He got bumped when the lunkhead got up, but that was it.
I personally think there’s a huge difference between a baseball fan who gets a little carried away and snags a foul ball that made a difference in the game…
…and a shithead who steamrollers a child, invades the kid’s mom’s personal space, and then gleefully disses all and sundry as he returns triumphantly to his seat with his prize.
The former was … well, impulsive. Thoughtless.
The latter was all of the above, plus an unrepentant shithead.
In my mind, the latter deserves far more scorn than the former.
What do you mean? He IS a colon.
Good. The kid is gonna have to learn that reality sucks, and that life ain’t always fair. That’s the way it was when I was that age, and I fail to see why kids today can’t suck it up and deal with it.
Insofar as Tim McCarver and Reggie Sander is concerned, tell them that they are a part of the problem, and that kids need to learn how to suck it up.
I’m with the “fuckwidget” on this one. I grew up without going to a baseball game at all. Let the little bastard know what it’s like not to go to any baseball games, then let him be damn grateful that he got in the stadium at all.
Awwwwwwwww, wassamatta, htns, did Santa Claus repossess your Christmas tree when you were little? Jesus, I don’t care HOW hard you had it, that gives you no right to kick some kid in your mad lust to get a baseball. And if it were my kid, and you were the jerk that kicked him, I’da ripped your leg off and beat you with it.