Reply #21: I didn't see the video, so I'll ask those who did: [View All]

Is it possible that the guy didn't even see the kid there when he was excitedly diving for the ball? Would the kid have been the one to get the ball if the guy didn't dive, or would someone else have likely caught it?

I'm not defending the guy--like I said, I didn't see the footage--and he may well be an asshole, but I just tend to get annoyed with the sickening deference to kids, to "the children," in this society. Like I said, I don't know how the guy got the ball, but if I caught a ball fair and square I would be pissed off if people expected me to give it to a kid just because it was a kid. If I caught a ball, it would probably be the one and only time it happened. And when I was a kid, nobody would have done that for me--we were expected to show deference to adults.

I'm just speaking in hypotheticals because I don't give a shit about baseball or catching a baseball; I'm just trying to frame the situation.