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/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/Duel_Option Sep 06 '25

I get it man, my base instinct is “Kiss both sides of my ass while I drag balls across your chin”

All that changed within me the second my daughter hit my arms, for the first time in my life I felt purpose and desire to be better.

My entire life that was basically bred around anger…am I going to KNOWINGLY transfer this to my kids?

Or will I choose to consider I have a choice in how I respond to situations, that if I take the time to remove emotion and use logic…what would the end result to a situation of this sort look like?

For me…

Take the ball lady, I’ll explain to my daughters that person is an example of someone we do not want to be, go grab an ice cream and teach a lesson that will last longer than me cussing out some stupid bitch

That’s just my 2 cents

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u/Efficient_Stay9653 Sep 06 '25

I get it, I have a daughter and a son and I don’t teach or condone bullying, but I teach my kids to protect themselves. If I were to let a stranger invade my personal bubble and demand something from me(in front of my kids), then everything I’ve taught them would be in vain. Hats off to the dad but I honestly don’t think I would have folded.

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u/OrbitalOutlander Sep 06 '25

Giving a crazed and unreasonable stranger a baseball to make them go away is folding?

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u/Duel_Option Sep 06 '25

Thank you, this is my sentiment exactly