Posted on 03/31/2018 1:43:23 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Braves sideline reporter Kelsey Wingert suffered a fractured eye socket after being hit by a line drive during Friday night's game...
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Is it too much to say we need to regulate exactly WHO is allowed to purchase and use these hardened spheres of cowhide? Oh, sure, some people say they use them for "sport", but can't they use a nerf ball?
No one need be subjected to severe injury or death because some fanatics want to use such dangerous items.
Photo of the injured girl.
Dad always said ‘Keep your eye on the ball!’, but I’m not sure that he meant it this way...
Best wishes to the injured young lady — must be very painful!
That microphone sure is an apt description.
Not guilty
We can’t change da whirl if people are getting hit in the eyeball sockets with foul balls. It’s time to make Rawlings and Wilson CEOs pay. Everyone needs to tweet or text them demanding that take responsibility and stop donating to Republican candidates. It makes it tougher than hell for Nazi “democrats” to get elected.
Goooooooooaaaaaallllll!
Nerf baseball is the answer
IMO < the woman is lucky to be alive.
If the ball had hit her squarely, it probably would have cause much more damage.
Either put a roll out plastic shield behind them, or have a person stand behind them with a glove.
“We need safer baseballs” - Jocelyn Elders
I’d hit it like a foul ball.
“We need safer baseballs” - Jocelyn Elders
BAN baseballs../s
Pitching machines need regulation.
When they are doing their jobs, they are not looking at what is happening on the field. It would make sense to have someone standing just off camera who is watching what is going on and can protect them.
“Pitching machines need regulation.”
ESPECIALLY the fully semi-automatic ones!;)
Huh, broken eye socket? It hit her on the top of the head. Did her brain rattle around and whack her eye socket, did she smack her eye on the Mic?. Before I saw the Video I was thinking the poor Girl would look like Tony Conigliaro, thank you know who she doesn’t. That was one of the most ugly injuries you would ever have not wanted to see.
or a simple $10 net
well, if on the field during batting practice or other practice, they need to have someone paying attention.
If I recall correctly, a minor league 1st base coach was killed by a foul ball. That’s why base coaches wear batting helmets nowadays.
And, teams have been extending netting along the baselines, to protect fans from line drive foul balls. There have been fan injuries due to foul balls.
With high magazines.
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