This week also marked the 7 year anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death, who was relentlessly mocked by the media and the public alike on a daily basis until the day she died. It was so disgusting. Demi Lovato doesn’t look or act like the stereotypical “mess,” so I think that’s why people haven’t publicly made fun of…

Thanks for the reply, sis.

At the risk of fanning the flames...I think the points he’s trying to make is that back then, decades ago, we didnt have the vocabulary or the consciousness to fully understand our actions. Even his wife says ”IN HINDSIGHT” it was date rape, meaning she didnt see it that way at first either. I’m not saying its right,…

Yeah, I hate that tradition.  But I like the new tradition of the bullpen throwing out free baseballs to the outfield fans before games (but considering bleacher seats now go for 50 bucks plus, it’s the least they can do).

Your article is having an effect on the petition.  There is a list of people that have signed the petition recently by the signature total.  When I clicked the link to look at the petition, one of the first things things that popped up said “Boaty McBoatface signed the petition 3 minutes ago”.  So thank you for doing…

It’s so painfully obvious that this is a joke, how are you at all unsure of that? The fact that there are people who aren’t sure if this is a joke is much more unsettling than this obvious joke petition.

Mmmm bone broth. How many bay leaves do you think the Egyptians put in?

So basically, you’d prefer one kid leave with several balls over someone helping ensure multiple kids left with a souvenir? 

Of course you don’t, as you want to shame somebody for something. Contrarian! This is why the outrage now, facts later is the most infuriating then with our society. Thanks twitter! It takes one incorrect “fact” by anyone and we’ve already maimed and killed the person. Of course, only to find out that the supposed…

This idea that anyone who doesn’t see it exactly your way is somehow morally inferior to you and should be made an example of, is exactly what is making America the cesspool it is becoming.  People have different ideas of how to be kind. Get off your high horse and STFU.

If I got a ball I’d give it to a kid

I think you overestimate how much little kids give a shit. They still got a ball from the game, they will still be over the moon happy to have it. Kids at baseball games aren’t whiny people who complain that “it wasn’t from a specific source”, they just want a freakin ball.

But he didn’t get the ball tossed to him in the video either. So no matter what, it’s a “ball given to me by a guy wearing a Cubs jersey in the second row”. Just stop with your bad take.

I’ll take vicariously experiencing a kind of childhood joy and excitement that is forever lost to me over having another thing that inevitably goes in a drawer and gets forgotten.

Eh, I disagree. He had already given the front-row kid a ball, and so he gave this ball to another kid who (presumably) hadn’t gotten one. That seems to me like the good and just thing to do.

This has gotten so out of hand in recent years that it’s always going to earn this immediate reaction. Also I remember seeing a kid get booed for not throwing back a visiting team home run ball (an obnoxious “tradition” spreading like a disease) before ultimately doing so while tears poured down his face.

This is not a time for politics, it’s time for healing.

I find your language repulsive, you are cheapening sincere thoughts and prayers by offering them to snowflakes who had their feelings hurt. Thoughts and prayers are the most powerful weapons we have in our arsenal to combat gun violence in America, so they need to be saved and only used in cases of actual physical…

Good for Philip Van Cleave! I’m sure that Sacha Baron Cohen is chastened now, and will no longer stoop to manipulative techniques to get people to say basically what they believe but with the veneer stripped away!

“in the end we played each other and I confirmed what I feared this was all about.”