The "foul ball couple" MUST be Republican. They're demanding an apology, saying "they had no idea"
By Steve DelVecchio April 27, 2012 - Posted in Baseball
http://larrybrownsports.com/baseball/rangers-couple-wants-apology-over-foul-ball/132073
By now you have probably seen the video of that young Rangers fan crying hysterically after he failed to snag a ball that a player tossed into the stands earlier this week. Mitch Moreland threw the ball into the stands, it hit the ground, and a happy couple wound up with it. The boy, three-year-old Cameron Shores, was devastated. He soon forgot about the first ball when the team gave him another ball later in the game, and WFAA in Dallas has reported that he is thrilled with the ball he now has.
The couple who was has been vilified, however, is not happy. Sean Leonard and Shannon Moore are getting married this weekend. This should be one of the most exciting weeks of their lives, but instead they have seen their faces all over the news and been labeled horrible people. That is unfair, they say, since they had no idea that the young boy was upset.
“I love children, I would never hurt someone,” Moore said. “It’s very hurtful, especially when you know you wouldn’t intentionally hurt somebody or hurt their feelings. Especially when it’s a little-bitty toddler.”
“My fiance Shannon and I were honestly unaware of the situation of the little boy sitting next to us last night since we were so caught up in the excited and moment of being at our first Ranger’s baseball game together,” Leonard wrote in a statement.
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Michael Kay, I think is his name.. I've heard a clip--he just described what he was seeing. I certainly don't think they are due an apology from him. 
They were sitting right fucking there! 
but did you know we aren't allowed to even say that at little league anymore? We have to be SO fuckin P.C. now we can;t even teach them the good cheers/jeers
Sid
...not sure who said it, because my head was turned at the time and I only heard it, but they were discussing this and someone yelled "ARREST THEM! EVERYONE KNOWS WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE TOMORROW! ARREST THEM!"
Or at least I'm happy to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Kids that age cry ALL THE TIME. (At least, it seems that way.) When the ball was coming towards the couple, their attention would have been on the ball--that's how you catch things, by watching as they come towards you--and they might very well not have realized that his crying was related to not getting the ball.
Plus, although it would have been super sweet of them to give it to him, his being upset about not getting the ball didn't entitle him to it. It would have been a nice thing for them to hand it to him, but unless there's some unwritten code about how kids in the vicinity of a ball automatically get it, I think it's sad that this couple's wedding is going to be overshadowed by embarrassment.
Having said all that, it did kind of look from the video that they realized what was going on--but that's because as I watched it I assumed that was the case. Now, maybe not.
(I read something sad in the comments in the Yahoo version of the story; some guy wrote to say that it had been a dream of his elderly father's to catch a ball ever since he was a little kid too poor to get into the stadium so he had to watch games from across the river (??); finally he caught one, but there was a kid nearby, and the crowd's reaction shamed him into giving it away. 
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3 year olds DO need to learn that they don't get everything they want by crying, and the mother is the one who has to live with the ongoing tantrums if they don't learn it because of other people's indulgence. It's on a par with some large, dog-loving adult rewarding my big dog for jumping up on him. My dog knows better, but it's impossible to fix this issue when random strangers insist it's all right. It's not all right, and they aren't the ones that will pay the price if he jumps up on a kid or small adult and knocks him or her down.
Furthermore, however much the 3 year old was crying, catching the ball did NOT have even close to the same meaning to him that it did to the couple that caught it. Tots cry rivers about anything and everything one minute, and have forgotten it the next.
Personally, I am sick to death of spoiled, obnoxious brats that haven't learned they can't get everything they want by crying, whining, etc. They grow into adult spoiled obnoxious brats who pull the same shit...at work, dating, etc. 
I know what you mean, but I still cringe when I hear the word 'brats'. It's not really the kids' fault they are like that.
That said, 3 year olds crying is pretty much how things go when you are out in public and they don't get what they want. Many parents will give the child anything they want to shut them up to avoid the nasty looks from strangers. If they don't give the child something to quiet them, they are regarded as horrible parents with a nasty child. It's always a lose-lose situation.
Being a mom of 4 (all past 3 yrs now, thank god), I rarely gave in to my children in public when there was a tantrum thrown over wanting something. They DO have to learn they can't have everything they want. They need to be taught delayed gratification. I gladly tolerated nasty looks when my kids were throwing a tantrum over something they didn't get that they wanted RIGHT NOW. Sorry, honey, you definitely aren't getting it with this act. 
Some parents, however are so worried about 'what other people think' they neglect to teach their children the proper lessons.
I went to my first baseball game in 1972 and to hundreds and hundreds since then and never caught a foul ball/homer/ball thrown into stands, so I might just keep the first one 
And no way I'm throwing back an opposing team homer. That's dumb.
She took it right out of that little girl's hands!!!! 
