Boy Who Lost Foul Ball to Man Gets Gifts

ARLINGTON, Texas – A 4-year-old boy who lost a foul ball to a not-so-grown-up adult is getting a windfall worthy of a game-winning home run hitter.

A man sitting behind Nick O’Brien at a Texas Rangers (news) baseball game Sunday knocked the boy against the seats as he dived to get a foul ball. Fans started chanting “Give him the ball!” but the man wouldn’t give it up.

“I couldn’t believe someone would do something like that to a 4-year-old boy,” said Nick’s mother, Edie O’Brien.

O’Brien said she swatted the man with a cardboard fan and called him a jerk, among other names. “I said, ‘You trampled a 4-year-old boy to get this ball,’ and he said, ‘Oh, well,'” she told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Wednesday, adding that the man seemed proud he got the ball.

What is it with people? It’s a fucking BALL. I can see a four year old wanting it, but the 28 year old former youth minister? And then to not even have the balls (sorry) to say “I’m sorry I was a jerk and knocked you down, here, you can have the ball.” It was a foul ball, too (how many of those in a game? Fifty?), not like a home run.

Of course now the poor little kid gets to go to New York City and do the rounds of the talk shows. He’ll be as famous as Jessica Lynch (remember her?) before long.