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I r happy now. Whilst it looks like somebody on the field there helped persuade the kid to give up the ball, that it still awesome.

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If you give away your balls, old men give you sticks, I think that's an Aesop Fable.

And now the other kid is crying more because he doesn't get a bat and because he doesn't get to go in the box and be on TV and throw out the first pitch...

Karma served all the way around, I'd say.

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As a Brit, I felt a need to reach for the sick-bag - just a little. It WAS a nice gesture but strange that the coverage has to play it up and make an enormous deal about it. It's just a BALL.

Also I never understood how you get to keep the ball. Surely it's the match equipment - at any sporting event over here you have to give it back.

>> ^Deano:

Also I never understood how you get to keep the ball. Surely it's the match equipment - at any sporting event over here you have to give it back.


Over here, we have a very complex and absolute law regarding things like this. Finders Keepers, I believe it is called.

It's great to see good parenting for a change

Nice sift.

>> ^Deano:

As a Brit, I felt a need to reach for the sick-bag - just a little. It WAS a nice gesture but strange that the coverage has to play it up and make an enormous deal about it. It's just a BALL.


I agree. The game announcer's comment "that's a well bred young man" was sufficient and appropriate. To gush over a kind act misses the point of being kind.

yeah, while he did the good thing... i seriously see this as "kid is good at instantaneously following authority" as opposed to "such a big heart"... he was on his way up the stairs to his seat when he was stopped by the usher... would he have given the ball without the usher's intervention? maybe... maybe not... the point is ALOT of people make the assumption one way or the other, based on their own bias as to what they'd like to see (mostly because they don't see it enough); as opposed to what ACTUALLY happens in the video

When they interviewed the kid I thought he looked like a real life version of Cartman!!

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not seeing where he was coached into giving the ball to the kid.

>> ^packo:

yeah, while he did the good thing... i seriously see this as "kid is good at instantaneously following authority" as opposed to "such a big heart"... he was on his way up the stairs to his seat when he was stopped by the usher... would he have given the ball without the usher's intervention? maybe... maybe not... the point is ALOT of people make the assumption one way or the other, based on their own bias as to what they'd like to see (mostly because they don't see it enough); as opposed to what ACTUALLY happens in the video

>> ^budzos:

>> ^Deano:
As a Brit, I felt a need to reach for the sick-bag - just a little. It WAS a nice gesture but strange that the coverage has to play it up and make an enormous deal about it. It's just a BALL.

I agree. The game announcer's comment "that's a well bred young man" was sufficient and appropriate. To gush over a kind act misses the point of being kind.


If it was an adult I'd agree with you guys. But it was a kid and when you have a child in my opinion you need to enforce that good deeds do not go unrewarded. This was a very good deed and from young boy (boys who notoriously do not care about emotions, etc.). For him to not only care about some random stranger but to also give up the game ball is a big deal.

It embodies a bit of what we all should aspire to be and what should happen to all of us when we are kind but usually does not.

I disagree. Raise your kids right and make "doing the right thing" an expectation, not a cause for reward.

>> ^Darkhand:

>> ^budzos:
>> ^Deano:
As a Brit, I felt a need to reach for the sick-bag - just a little. It WAS a nice gesture but strange that the coverage has to play it up and make an enormous deal about it. It's just a BALL.

I agree. The game announcer's comment "that's a well bred young man" was sufficient and appropriate. To gush over a kind act misses the point of being kind.

If it was an adult I'd agree with you guys. But it was a kid and when you have a child in my opinion you need to enforce that good deeds do not go unrewarded. This was a very good deed and from young boy (boys who notoriously do not care about emotions, etc.). For him to not only care about some random stranger but to also give up the game ball is a big deal.
It embodies a bit of what we all should aspire to be and what should happen to all of us when we are kind but usually does not.

Actually, I think that was the other kid standing with the three friends in the box.

>> ^ridesallyridenc:

And now the other kid is crying more because he doesn't get a bat and because he doesn't get to go in the box and be on TV and throw out the first pitch...
Karma served all the way around, I'd say.

oops, dbl post

>> ^braindonut:

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not seeing where he was coached into giving the ball to the kid.
>> ^packo:
yeah, while he did the good thing... i seriously see this as "kid is good at instantaneously following authority" as opposed to "such a big heart"... he was on his way up the stairs to his seat when he was stopped by the usher... would he have given the ball without the usher's intervention? maybe... maybe not... the point is ALOT of people make the assumption one way or the other, based on their own bias as to what they'd like to see (mostly because they don't see it enough); as opposed to what ACTUALLY happens in the video



I had to watch it again myself. But when he runs up the stairs, he suddenly turns around and looks intently back from where he came. When they zoom out, there's a white haired guy in a red shirt talking to him. It's hard to know what was said. And then the mother is shown thanking the older guy.

Cool kid. Too bad he has to learn a harsh life lesson later in life about how if you're the nice guy, you just end up fucked over in the adult world.

[Budzos shut the fuck up]

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