Ball hits cell user in face at Yankee Stadium (Video)

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[Artemis Webb]

JUSTICE IS SWEET !!

[Tennessee Nana]

Cell phones can be dangerous !!!

[Mere Survival]

Heh. I was chatting on the phone in a traffic jam yesterday. Almost got in an accident because of it. Fishtailing as I stopped kind of situation. Cell phones are dangerous.

[Psalm 73]

Baseball can be tough as a spectator - I usually bring a newspaper to read BETWEEN innings - but during play you really got to be alert - a lot of these cell-phone/texters get so lost in the technology they forget where they are (like an entrance ramp to a highway).
Cell phones should be banned from ball parks.

[all the best]

I am not sure how it’s justice that somebody was injured for minding their own business. How would using a cell phone at a noisy outdoor sporting event disturb anybody? The war against cell phones is just another collectivist travesty.

I did not watch the video so for all I know the phone user was assaulting somebody with the phone. In which case I apologize. Or if there is a no talking rule at that park.

[muir_redwoods]

I agree. Somehow it’s a crime against nature to talk on a cell phone but talking to the guy next to me is just being neighborly. I assume it’s a holdover of envy from back when only the rich had cell phones.

[Artemis Webb]

"The war against cell phones is just another collectivist travesty"

Obviously you know a lot more about "collectivist travesties" (Howard Cosell is that you? I thought you were dead.) than you do about baseball.

[Artemis Webb]

It’s not a crime. It’s just stupid. If you’re going to buy tickets on the front row near the foul line of an MLB stadium you need to be aware that a ball can come at you. Which in this case it did and the guy caught a ground rule double with his face. Could have been worse though, it could have been a line drive.

[NautiNurse]

ping

[RGSpincich]

Front row seats wasted on a “chatter” is the only crime I can surmise.

Ballpark tip: Don’t waste your money on tickets that get you close to the action unless you are prepared to be part of the action.

[wolfcreek]

*This is a cellphone free area!*

[BigCinBigD]

Anyone stupid enough to pay to see a baseball game deserves what they get.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Ballpark tip: Don’t waste your money on tickets that get you close to the action unless you are prepared to be part of the action.

I very highly doubt he paid for the tickets.

[o2bfree]

Just another reason why World Cup Soccer is better than baseball.

You can use your mobile all you want, and not get hit in the face with a baseball :-)

[all the best]

Yeah I do know a lot more about the war on the individual than I do about baseball. One of the problems with this country is misplaced priorities. And that most men are more interested in watching other men play games than actually living as men. When the men males of this country actually become men we might have a chance. And yes I do know a bit about baseball. And I keep it in its proper place. I would never revel in an innocent fan being injured.

[Artemis Webb]

You type words but all I see is “Whine, whine, whine, whine”.

[Artemis Webb]

and.. (sniff, sniff)
he was...(choking sob)
just trying to talk to his friends...(heavy sob)
on his cell phone...(uncontrolled sobbing)
and this big mean baseball came out of nowhere...(racking sobs)
and hit him in his pretty face.

—all the best
July 1st, 2010

[frithguild]

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[ml/nj]

The war against cell phones is just another collectivist travesty.

Really?

When I was teaching my kids to drive, one of the first things I suggested to them was to size up the drivers around them and to give people who obviously didn't belong on the road a wide berth. A driver who has a cell phone up to his ear is prima facie evidence that he doesn't know what he is doing. You're in favor of letting people drive and operated their phones at the same time?

And if I have the seat next to this schmuck (at Yankee Stadium) why should I be forced to listen to his phone conversation. The world isn't his phone booth. (And don't tell me that it's no different than if he were talking to the guy next to him. Everyone knows it isn't; and you know it too.)

And I guess you don't walk much in NYC. It's kind of comical to watch two cell phone walkers crash into each other, but it's more annoying to have to constantly dodge these people.

Cell phones have their place, but so does common courtesy and respect for the space of others.

ML/NJ

[I Buried My Guns]

I am not sure how it’s justice that somebody was injured for minding their own business.

Several reasons:

A person talking on a cell phone in public is rude. They are saying, by their behavior, that they do not have time for you or the world around them, because they are oh so busy and important, with other pressing matters to attend to.

They say, with their actions, that they are not part of the society they inhabit, but instead are somehow elevated above the ignorant masses that surround them.

Lastly, the idea of going to a baseball game only to call your friend is inane. The person has a responsibility to maintain awareness in that environment.