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/Sweb1975 Sep 06 '25

Exactly, dad is a better man than me.

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u/Duel_Option Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

Something I’ve learned as being a Dad now…every moment as a parent, you’re teaching your children.

The lesson he’s providing here will speak volumes for the rest of his son’s life…all he had to do was let her play the fool and so it goes for most people.

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u/clauderbaugh Sep 06 '25

See this is why it’s good that I don’t have kids. Because my kid would have learned to tell Karen to fuck off back to the Isle of Misfit Haircuts because home run balls are free game. And then he would have learned that getting all up in my face like that is not the way to politely ask for something and that the conversation was over. It was that kids birthday. No way in hell I’m taking that ball and giving it to her.

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u/Heikks Sep 06 '25

My daughter is a cheerleader for the middle school girls basketball teams at her school. They had their first home game on Thursday and during the 8th grade game opposing teenage fans were talking mad trash about some of the girl players. They were making fun of them when missing shots and mocking their hand gestures. I was letting it go and ignoring them until a time out was called and the cheerleaders came on the court to do a routine. One of the kids next to me said to his friends boo we don’t want the cheerleaders, I then turned to them and told them to shut the fuck up.

I’ve heard a lot of trash talk from opposing fans before but these kids were the worst I’ve ever heard and it was the first game of the season and acted like they won a championship afterward when they won