Stop reaching for baseballs

[fujarome]

people are stupid. Stop reaching far out over fences to grab a baseball.

another guy almost killed himself last night at the home run derby

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/12/baseball-fan-almost-replays-fatal-fall/

You know how much all foul balls and nearly every home run ball is worth? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. So people ought to stop nearly killing themselves or actually killing themselves to get one.

 

[.Blake.]

I got it!

 

[Funnel]

Yeah it's getting a little ridiculous. Someone fell last year at the Rangers' ballpark but survived. It's so grim that fans are willing to risk their lives to catch a baseball. Did I read that someone jumped off the deck, caught a ball in the air, and then landed safely in the pool, or did I just misinterpret the last two paragraphs of the article?

 

[Huckley]

mine..mine.. mine..mine.mine

 

[EvanA02]

Wrong. Jeter's 3000th hit ball was worth 250k and there have been plenty of balls worth more than that

 

[eldridge]

dude that woulda been some shit....

 

[fujarome]

and do you know how many fouls/home runs are hit everyday? The odds are overwhelmingly against you catching a ball of any significance whatsoever.

60-70 balls are used per game on average.

 

[comeatmebro]

about the guy that died recently...

according to that article hamilton tossed a ball into the stands and the guy reached for it and fell and died? pretty horrible feeling for hamilton i can only imagine...

 

[.Ian.]

That's what I got out of it. I wanna see that video!

 

[hey-dude-its-me]

lead story on around the horn right now

 

[eldridge]

yeah if he would used .01% more effort the guy would still be alive

 

[hey-dude-its-me]

not that cool

 

[-GL-]

and the guy gave it back to jeter..

 

[ShredThePowdah.]

i liked the catch wen he fell in the pool tho.. haha

 

[comeatmebro]

should've made him buy that shit. i woulda.

 

[JaayLaay]

For some reason the way you typed this is making it seem like you think it was Hamilton's fault...?

 

[jfxphoto]

Dosen't look like the fall would have killed him.

 

[bangarangmules]

I've heard from a bunch of people that you couldn't keep it. Like on your tickets it said that the ball is the property of the yankees or some shit, so he had to give it to them, and they gave him a bunch of free stuff to make up for it. That's just what I heard though.

 

[[evan]]

The stuff he got was worth at least $1000.

2 signed Jerseys (Jeter)

2 signed baseballs (i think)

and like dugout seats for every game

 

[hey-dude-its-me]

he might end up having to pay 14k in taxes on it as well I guess it depends on how the IRS wants to classify the transaction

 

[ohmythugaim]

http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2011/07/11/the-only-amusing-thing-that-happend-at-the-home-run-derby/

First vid. Sorry, don't know how to embed.

And he saves the beer!

 

[doyle.]

he was given 4 tickets to every remaining yankees home game this year!! and the guy who feel into the pool yesterday at the home run derby was standing right next to the pool and leaned over to catch the ball but he feel in. he made the catch and didn't spill his beer

 

[bangarangmules]

Ouch.

 

[-GL-]

jesus christ, when i heard the yankees were giving him seats and a bunch of signed stuff i thought they were hooking him, what a poor guy

 

[Ruffles]

In no way was that man's death Hamilton's fault.

 

[BenWhit]

yeah but you have to think he's being taken care of under the table. if you read his interview it seemed he seemed so nonchalant about the $14,000 he could owe the IRS, like it was $1,400.

 

[RubberSoul]

yeah the tax debacle for the dude with the jeter ball sucks. no good deed goes unpunished..

 

[.Blake.]

That's because Miller High Life is going to pay the taxes for him.

 

[Gameboy]

that dude wasn't evn close to catch that ball in the first place..

 

[zagfan5]

This. what a champ!