NPR: Do You Deserve That Foul Ball?

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There’s some impassioned debate going on in the comments on the post about the couple in Texas failing to surrender a foul ball to the weeping child beside them. What are the real rules, here? Possession is nine-tenths of the law? Children first? What’s the right thing to do to avoid the censure…

  1. candicelyn reblogged this from npr and added:
    So, what is the right thing to do?!
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  5. lulusmoogle reblogged this from lettersintheampersand and added:
    I’d like to point out that the child’s parents probably told the couple to ignore him and not give him the ball. They...
  6. pagesandpints reblogged this from npr and added:
    ah, flow charts....about baseball nonetheless. life...got a...
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  8. jennifervarela said: …a child. I paid to be there. I love baseball and I always wanted a ball. This doesnt mean that if the ball is in the kids spot i will take it. NO! But common. These people didnt realize what was happening next to them. Give them a break.
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  10. austinvegas reblogged this from npr and added:
    one hand - it’s...she’s 35, come on…...other - crying babies...
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  12. speeef said: This is so dumb, the kid is going to forget this even happened within the year. Yeah they should have offered it to the kid, but life’s hard, get use to it.
  13. takentothejohn said: All depends on how well behaved the kid has been in my opinion
  14. takentothejohn reblogged this from npr and added:
    Looking at you brett
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  18. courtney-025 reblogged this from npr and added:
    I don’t even like children, but if I had used my height advantage...kid was crying, I...
  19. maudelynn said: I don’t think they had to give the ball to the child. Sometimes life just works out that way. I do think they should have put the ball away and not taken pics & waving it in front of him, though.
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  22. turnabout reblogged this from npr and added:
    parents of this kid...Today show this morning, and they are fantastic parents. The...
  23. mcentellas reblogged this from npr and added:
    I hope those people never have children.