View Full Version : Throw It Back!
UncaBret
04-18-2006, 6:36 PM
I love baseball.
I would like to meet the idiot who started the 'throw it back' **** and slap the **** out of him!
I'm sorry, but if someone gets his first ever MLB at bat and hits a home run to me I'm not going to throw it back!
If someone I like (even tho he's not on my fave team) hits a home run to me I'm not going to throw it back!
led_zeppelin
04-18-2006, 7:12 PM
i wouldnt through it back either, i look at it as a free souvineer.......to make money off of
joephys
04-18-2006, 8:07 PM
I wouldn't. If they wanted to keep that ball they shouldn't have hit the home run. Besides, it was much cheaper for me to get pucks from hockey games than to go buy them my self.
Sly_Marbo
04-18-2006, 8:11 PM
At Wrigley Field you have the entire crowd booing at you if dont' throw it back, granted it's not a cubby homer. it's part of the tradition though.
I probly still would keep it though...
rosita
04-18-2006, 8:49 PM
Keep it!!! Once it's out of the ballfield proper, it's fair game, and if you manageto catch it, good for you!! I thought it was an American tradition? Along with getting it signed . . .
fish_e_o
04-19-2006, 1:47 AM
i'd keep it and then to be fair, it they really want it back, i would sell it to them after the game for an outragous sum of money...
test4echo
04-19-2006, 1:51 AM
SELL IT!!!! http://bestsmileys.com/sports3/2.gif
125gJoe
04-19-2006, 1:58 AM
Most likely the teams can afford another baseball. When the time comes (if..) they can't keep buying baseballs, then they need to look at their salaries. Or sell more hotdogs to make up for the loss of baseballs.
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UncaBret
04-20-2006, 3:40 PM
i'd keep it and then to be fair, it they really want it back, i would sell it to them after the game for an outragous sum of money...
A lot of times the player will trade it for lots of neat stuff, like a jersey signed by the entire team or some such.
We spent Easter Sunday at Busch, it was a perfect day and a great game!
Hey if they are willing to trade for something cool, then that is fine. But unless the ball is marked like they did with McGuire etc... then there is no way of really relling that it is a real ball anyway.
tomm10
04-20-2006, 4:01 PM
In my mind, the tradition remains that if you catch it/pick it up, its yours. That's my feeling regardless of the circumstances surrounding the ball's departure from the field. However, I think the player who hit it sometimes has a bigger claim to it by virtue of what the hit meant to him.
If I were in the position of having a ball a player wanted back, I would give it to him for all the free loot he could throw my way and a visit to the clubhouse to meet the team. Worth it to me.
As far as those million dollar balls are concerned, I'd be willing to sell it back. The only exception is any ball hit by Barry Bonds. I would go out of my way to make sure he never got that ball. I hate him.
UncaBret
04-20-2006, 4:36 PM
As far as those million dollar balls are concerned, I'd be willing to sell it back. The only exception is any ball hit by Barry Bonds. I would go out of my way to make sure he never got that ball. I hate him.
Well, the way it's going so far, Pujols just might break Bonds record for HRs in a season.
If the pitchers will pitch to him!
125gJoe
04-21-2006, 2:22 AM
:OT:
UncaBret, has anyone asked you where you live, and you replied "normal", and they said, "no, not how are you?" ..and you kept saying "normal"?
I would do that just to mess with people... :D
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tinytnt
04-21-2006, 2:35 AM
I wouldn't "throw" it back... I'd walk down to the edge of the field where the guy's standing, and tell him I'll trade it to him if he'll sign a different one for me... (and maybe a hat... and a jersey... j/k sorta.) Both walk away with something sentimental, you both win.