Saga of a foul ball taken from kid at Cubs game comes with a dramatic twist
A drama that unfolds on Twitter isn't always what it seems.
At Sunday's game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, a foul ball down the right field line was picked up by one of the ball boys and tossed to a young child in the front row.
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Except the kid, being pretty young, dropped the ball which then rolled under his seat. It was then an older fan picked up the ball and gave the ball back to the kid celebrated that he had gotten a foul ball.
Cue the Twitter outrage machine.
Plenty of fans tweeted their anger, hoping there was justice for the young fan who seemed to have had a chance at a foul ball ripped away from him.
Pretty low to take a ball from a KID. It was meant for the kid and he would have told stories to all his friend. The guy and whatever he gave it to. . . . HOW can anyone be happy with themselves for doing that.
— Lostways27 (@Lostways27) July 22, 2018
Speechless......he steals candy from babies too?
— GLrebirth (@GLrebirth) July 22, 2018
The Cubs heard the roar on Twitter loud and clear and made sure the little guy was rewarded with a ball signed by the Cubs' All-Star infielder Javy Baez.
A @javy23baez signed ball should take care of it. #EverybodyInpic.twitter.com/4YzUlG8qfN
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 22, 2018
But, by Sunday night, there was a twist: while Twitter was quick to demonize the dude in the shades, it seems he wasn't that bad of a guy at all.
Sure, the optics in the video looked damning, but David Kaplan, a host on NBC Sports Chicago noted that, before the incident that sparked the outrage, the same man had helped that same kid get a foul ball.
I spoke with people from the Cubs. The man who grabbed the ball on the widely seen video had actually already helped the little boy get a ball earlier. The young man has a game used ball and a Javy Baez ball. All is well. Guy is A-OK so let it go people.
— David Kaplan (@thekapman) July 23, 2018
It was a claim backed by others who were sitting nearby, flagged by the Sporting News.
The other ball the kid has was the one the same guy caught and gave him before this. I was sitting next to him.
— Chuck Mycoff (@cmycoff2) July 22, 2018
I was sitting the next to the boy and the same fan helped him snag a ball a few innings before this.
— Jeff Rose, CFP® (@jjeffrose) July 23, 2018
But no good deed goes unpunished and so the debate still swirls online as to who was right, who was wrong, and what it all means. Does that make it okay he took the second ball intended for the kid? Is this a life lesson for the kid to learn?
At least we have eternity to argue in circles about it on Twitter.
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