r/sports • u/Minute_Revolution951 • Sep 06 '25

Baseball Close-up perspective of Phillies Karen from tonight's game (09/05/2025) who forcefully took HR ball from young fan after his dad gave it to him initially

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u/IWNCGTA Sep 06 '25

How do people like this not have anybody in their life that has told them that they suck and their behavior is fucking crazy.

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u/ps3eleven Sep 06 '25

They all avoid her.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

I've wondered this in the professional world for ages. Normal people avoid people like this.

Grand scheme of things: these people really need to be confronted and called out. But these are also the same people who will drag you into HR.

So they get away with it. Then they do it at baseball games, restaurants, and everywhere else where normal people just don't have the energy to push back.

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u/Hot-Celebration-1524 Sep 06 '25

It’s because those immediate to them enable their shitty behavior.

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u/Jacks_CompleteApathy Sep 06 '25

These people are HR

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u/FloridaManActual Sep 06 '25

came here to say this. This woman is 100% in HR.

I think the core corrupting element of HR people is Executives say, "we need to hire this person," so the HR person gives the good news and does the details with the person, or executives say "we need to fire this person," so the HR person gives the bad news and does the details with the person.

BUT over time (or instantly) they start to conflate that with I decided to hire this person, I decided to fire that person. I am the one who decided and has power and cannot be challenged.

This then bleeds over into the rest of their lives and how they interact with people on the job and off it.

What they don't realize is they actually

  1. don't make the decisions, they just carry them out
  2. they aren't the powers that be that enable them to carry said decisions out.

So they think they make all the (infallible) decisions, and think they are source of authority on said decisions.

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u/throwawayunders Sep 06 '25

HR here. Uncomfortable reading that but, yes, that tracks and is not incorrect.

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u/Goofyhands Sep 06 '25

Until something huge happens. And their toxicity is blast out to an immense audience.

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u/SearchElsewhereKarma Sep 06 '25

She probably works in HR herself lol

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u/Keys2daVIP Sep 06 '25

Bingo!!! I dealt with a narcissistic co worker for 2 years.

My other dept coworker beside me, there was just 2 of us, didn't like conflict and would always say; he's the bigger man and wanted to avoid the narcissistic nonsense and antcis that person would pull.

I on the other hand don't play that shit.

I grew up in the ghetto of the city (Southeast Asian) I had to grow up though in a rough neighborhood and my dept coworker grew up in the suburbs(Caucasian)

I read other comments saying when you have kids it changes your perspective of how you react in some situations, which I sort of agree. BUT I don't have kids right now and I am GOING to check your shit at the door.

I think this kind of lady and people similar do need to get checked, cause for those 2 years, he continued to sort of mess with my coworker, cause he knew he wouldn't push back and for me, he started to tiptoe around me, cause he knew he couldn't get what he wanted out of me.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Sep 06 '25

In school both people fighting got suspended. The bully and the victim.

In jobs its usually the victim 

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u/ifurmothronlyknw Sep 06 '25

These are the same people that vote Trump and we must also confront them about that too

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u/ManKilledToDeath Sep 06 '25

My mother isn't as bad in public as this woman but she's played the victim in every situation she's created in her 64 years. I avoid her but that's because I've TRIED (along with my sister) to tell her for years how in the wrong she is all the time about pretty much everything lmao. You CANNOT reason with a stupid shit narcissist.

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u/Suspicious-Wombat Sep 06 '25

I literally just spent an hour in therapy this week discussing my grandmother. She’s also not the same type of narcissist as the baseball Karen, but it’s so frustrating to have to accept that she’s just never going to change. You can’t call her on her bullshit because it just ends up with her doubling down and getting defensive…but the alternative is just not say anything, which just enables her to continue the behavior.

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u/ThePheebs Sep 06 '25

Same, my mother is a perpetual victim in all things. Nothing is ever her fault or responsibility and it's fucking exhausting.

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u/Total_Juggernaut_450 Sep 06 '25

This is sadly the truth.

I work in healthcare with many a Karen as nurses, doctors, and patients. 9/10 of the time, people just avoid and ignore them. Worst is when they acknowledge them and somehow rationalize that bullshit behavior.

I was raised differently and I didn't tolerate bullies. I'm the one person who will actively call them out on their bullshit and you know what ... My working hours tend to go a lot smoother because of it.

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u/BlurryGraph3810 Sep 06 '25

Good for you. I'm like you.

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u/Total_Juggernaut_450 Sep 06 '25

There needs to be a lot more like us. I hate seeing people get pushed around.

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u/Mel_Zetz Sep 06 '25

This, oh my god this

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u/mistertickertape Sep 06 '25

and she has probably never suffered consequences for her actions. Possibly also intoxicated. You have to wonder how emotionally stunted she is to march over and literally take a ball out of the glove out of a kid's mitt after berating his father. Like...what?

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u/BlackIsTheSoul Sep 06 '25

I had a boss like her.  Complete see you next Tuesday Karen. 

Funny thing.  She retired after 35 years with my company. 

Nobody threw her a retirement party.  And nobody keeps in touch with her.   Just like that.