{"id":212342,"date":"2025-09-09T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212342\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:24:12","slug":"dad-says-leave-phillies-karen-alone-after-home-run-ball-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212342\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad says leave ‘Phillies Karen’ alone after home run ball controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Phillies add Buehler two days after release from Red Sox<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Phillies have signed pitcher Walker Buehler to a one-year deal just two days after the Boston Red Sox released him.<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> fan Drew Feltwell expressed concern that the uproar over a woman who demanded a home run ball that Feltwell had just given to his 10-year-old son could go too far.<\/p>\n

He said scores of people have said they will get the ball back from the angry, unidentified woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease don’t do anything to that lady,\u2019\u2019 Feltwell told USA TODAY Sports on Sept. 8. \u201cLeave it alone. You know, somebody knows her and can talk to her, that’s different. But God, I don’t want people breaking in their house and stuff like that. The internet already messed her up pretty good.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The power of the internet has put adults behaving badly at sports events on notice.<\/p>\n

Most recently, it was the home run ball controversy<\/a> taking place during the game<\/a> between the Phillies<\/a> and Miami Marlins<\/a> on Sept. 5 at LoanDepot Park in Miami.<\/p>\n

About a week earlier, a CEO snatched a hat that Polish tennis star Kamil Majchrzak tried to hand to a young boy. Piotr Szczerek, the CEO of a Polish paving company, initially defended his behavior.<\/p>\n

Slammed on social media, he subsequently offered an apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The backlash on social media is like \u201cinformal sanctions,” a term used in criminology, said Alex Piquero, Professor & Chair of the Department of Sociology & Criminology, Arts & Sciences at Miami.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are how your peers and the people you value, how they’ll judge your behavior,\u2019\u2019 Piquero told USA TODAY Sports. \u201cAnd I think that punishment alone, right there, is enough that if these people have any sense of moral conscience, they’re going to feel like the smallest human beings in this world.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

He also said the incident, because it\u2019s captured on video and on social media, will never go away. So what kind of deterrent might that serve for another adult on the verge of showing insensitivity to a child at a public sporting event \u2013 and the cameras watching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always going to be some adult who does something stupid like that,\u2019\u2019 Piquero said. \u201cThey\u2019re human beings. They want something and they don\u2019t think about their actions until they\u2019re forced to think about them. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to hope that someone out there believes that, next time this does happen, look, do the right thing. Give it to the kid.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

With the angry woman still under assault on social media, Feltwell said, “I could say something like she got what she deserved, but I don’t know if she deserved that much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillies add Buehler two days after release from Red Sox The Philadelphia Phillies have signed pitcher Walker Buehler…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,591,3248,46711,380,1286,1266,1571,5382,451,50,450,457,1448,2830,1311,2083,20414,62,105342,1458,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-212342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-fans","11":"tag-marlins","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-marlins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-national","16":"tag-national-sports","17":"tag-negative","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-overall","20":"tag-overall-negative","21":"tag-pa","22":"tag-pennsylvania","23":"tag-philadelphia","24":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","25":"tag-phillies","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-fans","28":"tag-sports-news","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115173384102672083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}