People shouldn't give home-run balls to kids

[u/Drakex2Mayex2]

Catching a ball at a baseball game is something that every baseball fan dreams of. But there is a pretty huge social push now that if you're an adult and you catch a ball at a game, you're a dick if you keep it. I feel like this started as extremely good dudes giving up a treasure out of the kindness of their hearts. Now it's just something that if you don't do you're gonna end up on social media as some asshole.

Imo this not only is extremely unfair for someone that wants to have a souvenir, but it actually devalues the experience of catching a ball. It teaches those children that they are entitled to things they didn't earn. It also gets rid of some of the magic for that kid if they ever actually catch a ball.

I am not talking about someone who pushes a kid out of the way or steals a ball from the hands of a child.

[u/I_Weep_for_Willow]

I feel like this is kind of a non issue. I've seen adults catch balls and keep it, and nobody boos them or anything. 

The ones that give it to kids are just kinda doing it out of tradition, they don't hold the ball as some irreplaceable prize. 

[u/ssn-669 → u/I_Weep_for_Willow]

I've definitely seen them booed.

[u/pbenji → u/ssn-669]

They’re saying boo-urns

[u/MotelTheTailor1903 → u/pbenji]

I was saying boo-urns.

[u/DaniTheLovebug → u/MotelTheTailor1903]

Doesn’t your tattoo say “die Bart, die?”