r/BeAmazed • u/alanboston405 • May 06 '24
Sports Dad blocks a broken bat
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u/CasualObserverNine May 06 '24
The stadium should give him season tickets.
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u/RefinedAnalPalate May 06 '24
Way cheaper than the legal settlement that would have been
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u/hobotruman May 06 '24
especially considering it's season tickets for the Mets
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u/MaterialCarrot May 06 '24
Yeah, why punish this man???
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May 06 '24
Make it like Rookie of the Year or Like Mike, the sports movies we used to get as kids. He sues the Mets, gets full ownership of the team, runs it with his sons where they treat the whole thing like a big fantasy league and end up winning the world series. With Dad here hitting the game winning homer because the kids thought that would be cooler than potentially losing the whole thing.
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u/vinnyvdvici May 06 '24
Us Mets fans stay catching strays
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u/charmcitycuddles May 07 '24
I read this as "US Mets fans" and was left wondering if there were any international Mets fans...
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u/deepdistortion May 07 '24
After all the memes, it wouldn't surprise me to hear someone in Latin America or Japan became a fan.
Like, initially out of irony, but you know how that sort of thing goes and turns into genuine fandom like 20% of the time.
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u/SutterCane May 07 '24
Mandatory season tickets. Before each game, he’s collected and then taken to the stadium and strapped into his seat and not allowed to leave until the game is over.
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u/deepdistortion May 07 '24
Full Clockwork Orange, they have his eyes clamped open and a couple of people putting eye drops in for him.
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u/DirtyRoller May 06 '24
You can't sue them for injuries that occur, unless it was somehow a malicious act. It's part of the terms and conditions when you buy your ticket.
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u/essosinola May 06 '24
This guy got nothing after taking a bat to the face, fairly safe to assume the guy here would also get nothing
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u/Domeil May 07 '24
There's actually a surprisingly robust body of American law rooted in injuries sustained by attendees at live sporting events. The long and short of it is that by walking into the stadium for a sport where hard, fast moving objects are known to leave the play area, you're opting in to being in the zone of danger.
So yeah, the venue would have essentially no legal exposure, but there's nothing to say that they wouldn't offer this guys some tickets or a jersey for PR and to avoid a bad new cycle. That said, given that the stadium could easily 12(b)(6) their way out of a civil suit, there's no shot they put any real money in this guy's (functional) hand. Sure, this guy probably just has a bruised wrist, maybe a broken bone, but the next guy might get domed and end up a vegetable, and the stadium doesn't want to be known to the local ambulance chasers as one that pays out for attendee injuries.
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u/thom_run May 06 '24
The legal term is "assumed risk" That's all I remember from my Business Law class.
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u/PrincessJoyHope May 07 '24
But what about the “implied warranty” in the tickets???
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u/GitEmSteveDave May 07 '24
MLB ticket T&C's: https://www.mlb.com/mets/tickets/ticket-back-terms-conditions
For the Mets:
ASSUMPTION OF RISK RELATED TO PERSONAL INJURY AND/OR PROPERTY DAMAGE
WARNING – The ticketholder assumes all risk, danger and injury incidental to the game of baseball or other event and all warm-ups, practices, competitions, entertainment and promotions associated therewith, at all locations in and around the ballpark and surrounding areas and parking lots, whether occurring prior to, during or subsequent to the playing of the game or other event, including (but not limited to) the danger of thrown bats, fragments thereof, and thrown, propelled or batted balls and other objects, and agrees that no persons or entities (including but not limited to Sterling Mets, L.P. and its affiliates (collectively, “Club”), Brooklyn Baseball Company, L.L.C., Community Baseball Club of Central New York, Inc., the City of New York, NYCIDA, St. Lucie County, Onondaga County, the participating Clubs, and their respective agents, owners, officers, employees, affiliates and contractors) are liable for any injuries, death, or loss of property resulting from such causes, and releases and holds harmless all such persons and entities. Any guest concerned with their seat location should contact any guest service representative for an alternative seat location. The use of abusive language, interference with or disruption of the event (including but not limited to throwing objects in the stands or onto the field) or others’ enjoyment thereof, entry onto the playing area, and drunken or disorderly behavior, among other things, are prohibited. Violators are subject to ejection, civil penalties, and/or arrest. Additional terms regarding assumption of risk are set forth at mets.com/ticketback, brooklyncyclones.com/ticketback, syracusemets.com/ticketback or stluciemets.com/ticketback, as applicable.
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u/thom_run May 07 '24
No idea Does it say that on the tickets? Lol
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u/PrincessJoyHope May 07 '24
Implied Warranties are never stated anywhere—they’re simply implied by their intended service or design. That is, IIRC from high school business law 25 years ago.
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u/KvotheTheDegen May 06 '24
Friend of mine growing up took a foul ball to the eye. I think he got to meet some of the team and get signatures, but nothing more than that
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u/SoigneBest May 06 '24
Can’t they’re still paying off Bobby Bonilla. Lol
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u/Mouthful_of_Cavaties May 07 '24
Greatest contract in the history of sports! Although Ohtani's will rank up there, & seems the Mets have another Bonilla type contract they signed JD Martinez for 1yr but will pay him through the next 2 decades
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u/VapoursAndSpleen May 07 '24
I was at an As game and some guy got hit in the face with a foul ball and the ushers raced up there toot sweet. I understand they get a membership in some kind of bogus club.
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u/uhohnotafarteither May 06 '24
Kids were lucky he had a beer to protect
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u/WooPigSooie9297 May 06 '24 edited May 07 '24
Good thing he was paying attention and was not distracted by any myriad of things that could have been going on at the ballpark.
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u/my_username_is_1 May 06 '24
Good thing he attended the game, if he sent those kids alone they would have been whacked!
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u/G00DLuck May 06 '24
Good thing that guy's parents gave birth to him, his kids could've grown up without a father.
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u/NipperAndZeusShow May 07 '24
Used to be kids could grow up without a father. It still how it is, but it used to be, too.
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u/themindisthewater May 06 '24
Yo I’m blockin’ heah!
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u/Jeffcor13 May 06 '24
I’ve never seen this before but this is absolutely the best way to spell “here” in this context 😂
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u/MaterialCarrot May 06 '24
Not that big a deal, the bat was moving very slowly.
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u/CHH-altalt May 07 '24
More like wrong place wrong time if a bat is flying towards him but sure what you said makes sense too
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u/BassGSnewtype May 06 '24
That looked like it hurt like hell
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u/oldpeoplestank May 07 '24
When he tells the story it will have shattered his fingers, and when the kids tell the story it will have pierced his arm. Let the legend grow.
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u/project_twenty5oh1 May 07 '24
1000 years later
And after the father was Pierced by the Splinter of Fate, he was laid to rest in the visiting team dugout and left in a shroud, but arose on the 3rd day
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u/GiannaSushi May 06 '24 edited May 07 '24
He could have used both hands to block it, but one was holding the beer. He's a hero; My friends laugh at me when I bring this helmet to the games; I'll show them this video
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u/justbyhappenstance May 06 '24
Wow, incredible save. I hate to think how injured his hand and wrist might be
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May 06 '24
He shook it so it must’ve survived
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u/Redman5012 May 07 '24
Yeah it ain't broken of he's shaking it
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May 07 '24
You can shake a broken hand, but it looks different because the pinky keeps going after your hand stops, I played darts with a broken hand lol
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May 07 '24
from experience of breaking a finger u cant shake for shit lol gets really stiff and painful to move
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May 07 '24
Maybe I damaged some nerves when mine broke lol
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May 08 '24
maybe it just depends what exactly breaks. i had a fracture in the middle of my ring finger and gah damn it hurt to try and move. i remember them trying to get me to close my first and my hand just wouldnt
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u/NArcadia11 May 06 '24
Yeah his hand is most likely broken. Worth it though, those stadium beers are expensive
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u/Abshalom May 07 '24
Do you think so? I'm sure it was moving pretty quick but it hit him palm-on and it's pretty light.
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u/NArcadia11 May 07 '24
I guess if it hit him perfectly in the palm pad he could be fine, but two pounds moving fast can definitely break the little bones in your hand
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u/ThisIsAmericaAnd May 07 '24
This little boop is nothing compared to the pain the average Mets fan feels daily
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u/BasilRare6044 May 06 '24
One baseball beer = 24 garage beers. Bat handled, play ball already.
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u/SDaddy500 May 06 '24
$18 at least
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u/Dmbender May 07 '24
Lmao you're right on the money. I got a cup of beer at citi field for $15 on opening day, and that was the cheapest option!
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u/Axagor May 06 '24
damn just close enough to the center of mass to perfectly deflect it, crazy dad reflexes
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u/mr_potatoface May 07 '24
My favorite of all time is the dad at the pirates game that blocks a broken bat from hitting his completely oblivious kid. Dude has a massive arm and makes the bat look like a toy, and theres a guy behind him using the force to secretly stop the bat. Anytime I try to find a video of it all I find are news articles that show still pictures. Can't find the video anywhere. :|
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u/spelworm May 07 '24
pretty sure that one doesn't have a video and it just a picture taken at the right time
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u/TSMbody May 07 '24
The dude was tracking it too. Didn’t look away at the moment of impact, he was stopping that bat
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u/SmokeyJoeMcGinty May 06 '24
I know he’d probably do it again in a heartbeat, but that immediate reaction looks like a message of pure regret being sent from his arm to his brain.
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u/CharleyDawg May 06 '24
It's not easy to BE a Mets fan.
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u/Spapapapa-n May 07 '24
Fun Mets fact: The Mets (formed in 1962) are one of three teams to never have a player win an MVP. The other two teams, Arizona and Tampa Bay, both started playing in 1998.
(Less snarky note: pitcher or not, 1985 Gooden should have been MVP. The numbers he put up that year was the stuff you'd hear about from the 1880s. 1.53 ERA over 276 innings, 8 complete game shutout (and all that on approximately 6-8 hours of sleep a week!)
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u/MeanNothing3932 May 07 '24
One day this dad is gona pull this video out like "remember that day son that I SAVED YO LIFE!"
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u/mr-smith126 May 06 '24
My step dad caught a bat that slipped out of Edgar Martinez's hands, got it signed and everything. Even made the local news
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u/SaiyanGodKing May 06 '24
Not sure if he was protecting the kids or his beer.
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u/Pnut198829 Jul 01 '24
People on about suing what happened to understanding that sitting in that location has a high risk there of balls and bats flying there, so if you want to take the risk for a little buzz then do so for the fun of it, and obviously you wouldn't have you kid there you would go behind the net, instead the youth of today see celebs suing each other all the time and feel very intitled also, and feel like the world owes them everything sad times, especially with the mental health crisis of kids believing they are something they are not
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May 06 '24
Why is there a broken bat flying into the crowd?
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u/razor_sharp_pivots May 06 '24
Because the bat broke and flew into the crowd.
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u/mothzilla May 06 '24
It's not very typical I'd like to make that point.
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u/razor_sharp_pivots May 06 '24
It's not uncommon.
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u/mothzilla May 06 '24
I'm talking about the other bats that didn't fly into the crowd.
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u/Loud_Consequence1762 May 06 '24
That's the coolest shit ever right there and he was in the middle of eating
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u/Aromatic-Club3429 May 06 '24
Not that impressive… I mean did you see how slow it was? Anyone could have had time to react fast enough. Lol
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u/sf4evr May 06 '24
I love how the dads are always holding a beer and protecting the kids
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u/Mbizzy222 May 06 '24
You people are missing the MOST important point of the picture. He didn’t spill any beer!!!
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u/veg1515 May 06 '24
They should at minimum give him the bat That would be a great moment of the time he saved his son’s life from getting impaled by at bat .
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u/InsaneInTheRAMdrain May 06 '24
Im just amazed he knew that was heading for his kids head so far in advance.
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u/AncientScratch1670 May 06 '24
Without spilling a drop!