Sunday diversion / there are “rules” about foul balls, don'cha ya know

viral is as viral does, though starting in NY helps
Maybe it is the power of Yankee media, or maybe it is just that any trivial thing that happens involving the Yankees can’t be too trivial, but if you watched the Yankees against the Rangers last week you probably saw The Tossed Ball Play in real time, and then again immediately a few times in succession. If you watched, and don’t know what I am talking about, you probably know it as The Hysterical Toddler Play, after the little kid who wanted the tossed ball lost out to the couple sitting right next to his family.

The Extra Mustard guy on Sports Illustrated on-line has backed off from his calling that other couple (the people with the ball) “Awful Human Beings”, thank the lord, and he gets the h/t for linking to The Rules For Foul Balls, as presented as a flow chart by Dead Spin. Nice work, that.

In turn, Dead Spin gets the tip of the hat for showing how Silly Yankee Game Moments are fodder for national (New York based, but national) media, like The Today Show. The kids parents were on, here.

I will say one thing: that kid has got powerful lungs, and remarkable staying power, in a hysterically sobbing sort of way. A future on talk radio?? (Who was it who said "there’s no crying in baseball?")

© Sandy Mattingly 2012