On a cell phone ... at a Yankees game ... the guy was asking for it!

[Batman]

Karmic justice at last night's Mariners-Yankees game. Guy sitting in the right field corner is talking on his cell phone when a ground-rule double bounces up and smacks him square in the face. Sometimes, funny bad things do happen to deserving douchebags.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6633405n&tag=pop

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Maybe it's just me, but talking on a cell at a sporting event at any of the big four sports is so common these days that I don't think it's nearly as bad as doing it at the movies.

 

[JR]

Maybe it's just me, but talking on a cell at a sporting event at any of the big four sports is so common these days that I don't think it's nearly as bad as doing it at the movies.

Anybody who does it at the movies should be shot.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Yeah, movies = worthy of flogging. Ball game = not so much. There's so much noise that a person on a cell wouldn't be a distraction.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Talking on a cell is a definite no-no at the movies. At a game, there's a lot more people and more conversation, as opposed to a movie, where everyone's silent, for the most part.

 

[John]

I do think we should flog the jackasses behind home plate who are talking on their phones and waving before every pitch.

 

[CR19]

I do think we should flog the jackasses behind home plate who are talking on their phones and waving before every pitch.

Talking on the cell phone doesn't deserve a flogging. However, the embarrassment of waving to the camera is likely enough punishment.

 

[zimbabwe]

Talking on a cell is a definite no-no at the movies. At a game, there's a lot more people and more conversation, as opposed to a movie, where everyone's silent, for the most part.

This raises an interesting point that is best resolved through the use of Venn diagrams:

Talking on the phone at a ballgame is a douchebag move.

Talking on the phone in a theatre, during a movie, is an asshole move.

Douchebag is that area where "asshole" and "idiot" overlap.

 

[Sea Bass]

I don't like much about the Boston Red Sox organzation, but I do like how they prohibit the use of cellphones behind the plate (perhaps in more areas than just that, I don't know).

 

[HanSenSE]

I do think we should flog the jackasses behind home plate who are talking on their phones and waving before every pitch.

Talking on the cell phone doesn't deserve a flogging. However, the embarrassment of waving to the camera is likely enough punishment.

Ah, but what about their friends who call to say "Hey, they just mentioned you on TV."

 

[Smallpotatoes]

The person I felt like beating was someone who was waiting in line behind me in a convenience store last summer. At the front of the line was a woman and her young (maybe 2 years old) daughter. The person on the phone was a teenage girl and within one minute she must have used the word "****" a dozen or more times.
She was in her own little world. She didn't seem to know or care that there was a little kid within earshot or that maybe some of the other customers didn't feel like hearing her say "****" over and over again.
That's the main problem I have with many cell phone users. They're completely oblivious to the world around them.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Yeah, that's not cool. The part about the movies is them texting and that light from their phone screen standing out in a dark theatre. I'm tempted to go confiscate the phone every time.

 

[Mark2010]

Good the guy what he deserved. Cell phones are ruining public places.

 

[mpcincal]

Outside of the nimrods who like to call friends and wave to the camera, I don't mind cell phones at ballgames as much as at certain other places. However, if you're sitting in the front row, you need to pay attention to the damn game.

So, it that vein, yeah, he got what he deserved.

 

[HanSenSE]

Just looking at the clip again ... did the woman on our left have a glove and whiff at it?

 

[proudpittsburgher]

Just looking at the clip again ... did the woman on our left have a glove and whiff at it?

A whiff would imply that she actually extended her glove arm at the ball. Seriously, why in the hell do you even bring a glove to the game if you have no intention of even trying to use it? It's not even like it was a line drive homerun, It bounced up in the stands, for Pete's sake.

 

[crusoes]

Too bad it wasn't a Steinbrenner.

 

[MacDaddy]

The person I felt like beating was someone who was waiting in line behind me in a convenience store last summer. At the front of the line was a woman and her young (maybe 2 years old) daughter. The person on the phone was a teenage girl and within one minute she must have used the word "****" a dozen or more times.
She was in her own little world. She didn't seem to know or care that there was a little kid within earshot or that maybe some of the other customers didn't feel like hearing her say "****" over and over again.
That's the main problem I have with many cell phone users. They're completely oblivious to the world around them.

And yet if you say something, or an employee says something, there's going to be a ****storm, the store will end up apologizing to the person, etc.

Shame really needs to make a comeback.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

The person I felt like beating was someone who was waiting in line behind me in a convenience store last summer. At the front of the line was a woman and her young (maybe 2 years old) daughter. The person on the phone was a teenage girl and within one minute she must have used the word "****" a dozen or more times.
She was in her own little world. She didn't seem to know or care that there was a little kid within earshot or that maybe some of the other customers didn't feel like hearing her say "****" over and over again.
That's the main problem I have with many cell phone users. They're completely oblivious to the world around them.

And yet if you say something, or an employee says something, there's going to be a ****storm, the store will end up apologizing to the person, etc.

Shame really needs to make a comeback.

I felt bad for not saying something, but you never know what would have happened. Maybe I would have been knifed or something.

 

[Football_Bat]

Why bring a glove to a game period? The only good place is probably down low next to the corner bags where a line drive foul ball could do some hurt. My bleacher experience is the home run balls lose their velocity by the time they get there and just kind of float down to you.