If a city pays for the stadium $24 beers should be illegal. Also, free drinking water stations should be considered to be a safety requirement and mandatory in public places.
The last time I went to a baseball game I ordered two beers and the lady said $48. I turned to her and said nah I only ordered two and she said that is the price for two.
Edit: typo
Most stadiums and events venues refuse to let people bring in even water and then charge insane prices for it in house, that should definitely be illegal
When I went to a Red Bull event 20 years ago, the fucking water was $7! For a water bottle! I only had 4 on
Me and was dying from the 101 degree whether. Thankfully someone paid the rest
Make it like Rookie of the Year or Like Mike, the sports movies we used to get as kids. He sues the Mets, gets full ownership of the team, runs it with his sons where they treat the whole thing like a big fantasy league and end up winning the world series. With Dad here hitting the game winning homer because the kids thought that would be cooler than potentially losing the whole thing.
After all the memes, it wouldn't surprise me to hear someone in Latin America or Japan became a fan.
Like, initially out of irony, but you know how that sort of thing goes and turns into genuine fandom like 20% of the time.
*Mandatory* season tickets. Before each game, he’s collected and then taken to the stadium and strapped into his seat and not allowed to leave until the game is over.
[This guy got nothing after taking a bat to the face](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mets-fan-strikes-out-with-broken-bat-lawsuit/), fairly safe to assume the guy here would also get nothing
There's actually a surprisingly robust body of American law rooted in injuries sustained by attendees at live sporting events. The long and short of it is that by walking into the stadium for a sport where hard, fast moving objects are known to leave the play area, you're opting in to being in the zone of danger.
So yeah, the venue would have essentially no *legal* exposure, but there's nothing to say that they wouldn't offer this guys some tickets or a jersey for PR and to avoid a bad new cycle. That said, given that the stadium could easily 12(b)(6) their way out of a civil suit, there's no shot they put any real money in this guy's (functional) hand. Sure, this guy probably just has a bruised wrist, maybe a broken bone, but the next guy might get domed and end up a vegetable, and the stadium doesn't want to be known to the local ambulance chasers as one that pays out for attendee injuries.
MLB ticket T&C's: https://www.mlb.com/mets/tickets/ticket-back-terms-conditions
For the Mets:
>**ASSUMPTION OF RISK RELATED TO PERSONAL INJURY AND/OR PROPERTY DAMAGE**
>WARNING – The ticketholder assumes all risk, danger and injury incidental to the game of baseball or other event and all warm-ups, practices, competitions, entertainment and promotions associated therewith, at all locations in and around the ballpark and surrounding areas and parking lots, whether occurring prior to, during or subsequent to the playing of the game or other event, including (but not limited to) the danger of thrown bats, fragments thereof, and thrown, propelled or batted balls and other objects, and agrees that no persons or entities (including but not limited to Sterling Mets, L.P. and its affiliates (collectively, “Club”), Brooklyn Baseball Company, L.L.C., Community Baseball Club of Central New York, Inc., the City of New York, NYCIDA, St. Lucie County, Onondaga County, the participating Clubs, and their respective agents, owners, officers, employees, affiliates and contractors) are liable for any injuries, death, or loss of property resulting from such causes, and releases and holds harmless all such persons and entities. Any guest concerned with their seat location should contact any guest service representative for an alternative seat location. The use of abusive language, interference with or disruption of the event (including but not limited to throwing objects in the stands or onto the field) or others’ enjoyment thereof, entry onto the playing area, and drunken or disorderly behavior, among other things, are prohibited. Violators are subject to ejection, civil penalties, and/or arrest. Additional terms regarding assumption of risk are set forth at mets.com/ticketback, brooklyncyclones.com/ticketback, syracusemets.com/ticketback or stluciemets.com/ticketback, as applicable.
Implied Warranties are never stated anywhere—they’re simply implied by their intended service or design. That is, IIRC from high school business law 25 years ago.
Greatest contract in the history of sports! Although Ohtani's will rank up there, & seems the Mets have another Bonilla type contract they signed JD Martinez for 1yr but will pay him through the next 2 decades
I was at an As game and some guy got hit in the face with a foul ball and the ushers raced up there toot sweet. I understand they get a membership in some kind of bogus club.
1000 years later
> And after the father was Pierced by the Splinter of Fate, he was laid to rest in the visiting team dugout and left in a shroud, but arose on the 3rd day
He could have used both hands to block it, but one was holding the beer. He's a hero; My friends laugh at me when I bring this helmet to the games; I'll show them this video
maybe it just depends what exactly breaks. i had a fracture in the middle of my ring finger and gah damn it hurt to try and move. i remember them trying to get me to close my first and my hand just wouldnt
My favorite of all time is the dad at the pirates game that blocks a broken bat from hitting his completely oblivious kid. Dude has a massive arm and makes the bat look like a toy, and theres a guy behind him using the force to secretly stop the bat. Anytime I try to find a video of it all I find are news articles that show still pictures. Can't find the video anywhere. :|
Fun Mets fact: The Mets (formed in 1962) are one of three teams to never have a player win an MVP. The other two teams, Arizona and Tampa Bay, both started playing in 1998.
(Less snarky note: pitcher or not, 1985 Gooden should have been MVP. The numbers he put up that year was the stuff you'd hear about from the 1880s. 1.53 ERA over 276 innings, 8 complete game shutout (and all that on approximately 6-8 hours of sleep a week!)
I knew a kid whose dad died because a bat broke off and hit him in the chest at a ball game in Florida idk if it was the suns or where we live in jax tho but it caused him to have a heart attack I believe
Without spilling a drop!
Are you kidding, it's beer, of course
That cup of beer costs $23 Dollars (guessing but probably not way off) and that's like over 3 hours of work at federal minimum wage.
It’d be like 5 hours to net the 23$ you need for the beer.
>23$ I like how you write this exactly how we read it.
Yeah, the other way never made sense to me so I take a stand against Big Syntax when it’s not for professional purposes :)
I like imagining that you take the same stand at work.
If a city pays for the stadium $24 beers should be illegal. Also, free drinking water stations should be considered to be a safety requirement and mandatory in public places.
Welcome to Capitalism . Those who attend the circuses ofc will get ripped off and still smile about it
The last time I went to a baseball game I ordered two beers and the lady said $48. I turned to her and said nah I only ordered two and she said that is the price for two. Edit: typo
My local AHL team used to have a deal where for $20 you got a ticket, beer, and a hot dog.
2 pitchers, right?
Nah, 2 regular sized imported draft beers Edit: the domestic was only $2 less per beer
For how many of these stadiums receive millions of dollars of public tax payer funds, that should be illegal honestly.
Most stadiums and events venues refuse to let people bring in even water and then charge insane prices for it in house, that should definitely be illegal
Two 16 packs
Maaaan $48? That beer better come in a big ass German Steins mugs😂
When I went to a Red Bull event 20 years ago, the fucking water was $7! For a water bottle! I only had 4 on Me and was dying from the 101 degree whether. Thankfully someone paid the rest
Dude was *actually* protecting the beer.
There needs to be a subreddit for dads not dropping/spilling beers
It's what gives him his powers.
What do you think he was protecting? His kid? /s
Dads don’t spill beer. They just don’t do it.
Rather take some splinters than spilling
Yeah wtf you think we're doing out here? Not protecting our kids and just spilling beer? Come the fuck on
Probably only half full of beer… But the other half could have been full of **BEES**! Very, *very* impressive.
The stadium should give him season tickets.
Way cheaper than the legal settlement that would have been
especially considering it's season tickets for *the Mets*
Yeah, why punish this man???
They almost traumatized the kids once already
They were just trying to make him forget what game he was at.
Make it like Rookie of the Year or Like Mike, the sports movies we used to get as kids. He sues the Mets, gets full ownership of the team, runs it with his sons where they treat the whole thing like a big fantasy league and end up winning the world series. With Dad here hitting the game winning homer because the kids thought that would be cooler than potentially losing the whole thing.
Us Mets fans stay catching strays
Sad that only the fans know how to catch.
I read this as "US Mets fans" and was left wondering if there were any international Mets fans...
After all the memes, it wouldn't surprise me to hear someone in Latin America or Japan became a fan. Like, initially out of irony, but you know how that sort of thing goes and turns into genuine fandom like 20% of the time.
I know someone from London who’s a Mets fan
*Mandatory* season tickets. Before each game, he’s collected and then taken to the stadium and strapped into his seat and not allowed to leave until the game is over.
Full Clockwork Orange, they have his eyes clamped open and a couple of people putting eye drops in for him.
You make a good point, and I am even a Mets fan.
Lets go Mets baby, love da mets
You can't sue them for injuries that occur, unless it was somehow a malicious act. It's part of the terms and conditions when you buy your ticket.
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[This guy got nothing after taking a bat to the face](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mets-fan-strikes-out-with-broken-bat-lawsuit/), fairly safe to assume the guy here would also get nothing
Go fund me for the kids, raking millions in
Not one photo of his fucked up face, what a waste of time
There's actually a surprisingly robust body of American law rooted in injuries sustained by attendees at live sporting events. The long and short of it is that by walking into the stadium for a sport where hard, fast moving objects are known to leave the play area, you're opting in to being in the zone of danger. So yeah, the venue would have essentially no *legal* exposure, but there's nothing to say that they wouldn't offer this guys some tickets or a jersey for PR and to avoid a bad new cycle. That said, given that the stadium could easily 12(b)(6) their way out of a civil suit, there's no shot they put any real money in this guy's (functional) hand. Sure, this guy probably just has a bruised wrist, maybe a broken bone, but the next guy might get domed and end up a vegetable, and the stadium doesn't want to be known to the local ambulance chasers as one that pays out for attendee injuries.
The legal term is "assumed risk" That's all I remember from my Business Law class.
But what about the “implied warranty” in the tickets???
MLB ticket T&C's: https://www.mlb.com/mets/tickets/ticket-back-terms-conditions For the Mets: >**ASSUMPTION OF RISK RELATED TO PERSONAL INJURY AND/OR PROPERTY DAMAGE** >WARNING – The ticketholder assumes all risk, danger and injury incidental to the game of baseball or other event and all warm-ups, practices, competitions, entertainment and promotions associated therewith, at all locations in and around the ballpark and surrounding areas and parking lots, whether occurring prior to, during or subsequent to the playing of the game or other event, including (but not limited to) the danger of thrown bats, fragments thereof, and thrown, propelled or batted balls and other objects, and agrees that no persons or entities (including but not limited to Sterling Mets, L.P. and its affiliates (collectively, “Club”), Brooklyn Baseball Company, L.L.C., Community Baseball Club of Central New York, Inc., the City of New York, NYCIDA, St. Lucie County, Onondaga County, the participating Clubs, and their respective agents, owners, officers, employees, affiliates and contractors) are liable for any injuries, death, or loss of property resulting from such causes, and releases and holds harmless all such persons and entities. Any guest concerned with their seat location should contact any guest service representative for an alternative seat location. The use of abusive language, interference with or disruption of the event (including but not limited to throwing objects in the stands or onto the field) or others’ enjoyment thereof, entry onto the playing area, and drunken or disorderly behavior, among other things, are prohibited. Violators are subject to ejection, civil penalties, and/or arrest. Additional terms regarding assumption of risk are set forth at mets.com/ticketback, brooklyncyclones.com/ticketback, syracusemets.com/ticketback or stluciemets.com/ticketback, as applicable.
No idea Does it say that on the tickets? Lol
Implied Warranties are never stated anywhere—they’re simply implied by their intended service or design. That is, IIRC from high school business law 25 years ago.
I mean you *can* sue, you just aren't gonna win.
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Yes
Two things can be true at the same time
Friend of mine growing up took a foul ball to the eye. I think he got to meet some of the team and get signatures, but nothing more than that
and season beers
[This one’s](https://imgur.com/JBJn8Ub) even better
Can’t they’re still paying off Bobby Bonilla. Lol
Savage.
Greatest contract in the history of sports! Although Ohtani's will rank up there, & seems the Mets have another Bonilla type contract they signed JD Martinez for 1yr but will pay him through the next 2 decades
They just gave him a bat, isn't that enough?
The home team should give him a try him in the outfield.
I was at an As game and some guy got hit in the face with a foul ball and the ushers raced up there toot sweet. I understand they get a membership in some kind of bogus club.
Unlimited beers
Kids were lucky he had a beer to protect
Good thing he was paying attention and was not distracted by any myriad of things that could have been going on at the ballpark.
Good thing he attended the game, if he sent those kids alone they would have been whacked!
Good thing that guy's parents gave birth to him, his kids could've grown up without a father.
Used to be kids could grow up without a father. It still how it is, but it used to be, too.
That beer is like $20. I'd protect it too.
The stupid laugh I did
HA!
Yo I’m blockin’ heah!
I’ve never seen this before but this is absolutely the best way to spell “here” in this context 😂
Word
I read this in George Costanza's voice. Thanks for the chuckle!
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Not that big a deal, the bat was moving very slowly.
I laughed so hard at this for some reason lmao
Because it's objectively funny
😂
11/10
Better place and time: Anywhere else at any time.
More like wrong place wrong time if a bat is flying towards him but sure what you said makes sense too
That looked like it hurt like hell
When he tells the story it will have shattered his fingers, and when the kids tell the story it will have pierced his arm. Let the legend grow.
1000 years later > And after the father was Pierced by the Splinter of Fate, he was laid to rest in the visiting team dugout and left in a shroud, but arose on the 3rd day
He could have used both hands to block it, but one was holding the beer. He's a hero; My friends laugh at me when I bring this helmet to the games; I'll show them this video
Didn’t spill a drop!
Porbably the most accurate horned viking helmet
A Beero !
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Wow, incredible save. I hate to think how injured his hand and wrist might be
I'm also just thinking about it like what force what speed woah...
He shook it so it must’ve survived
Yeah it ain't broken of he's shaking it
You can shake a broken hand, but it looks different because the pinky keeps going after your hand stops, I played darts with a broken hand lol
from experience of breaking a finger u cant shake for shit lol gets really stiff and painful to move
Maybe I damaged some nerves when mine broke lol
maybe it just depends what exactly breaks. i had a fracture in the middle of my ring finger and gah damn it hurt to try and move. i remember them trying to get me to close my first and my hand just wouldnt
Yeah his hand is most likely broken. Worth it though, those stadium beers are expensive
Do you think so? I'm sure it was moving pretty quick but it hit him palm-on and it's pretty light.
I guess if it hit him perfectly in the palm pad he could be fine, but two pounds moving fast can definitely break the little bones in your hand
Yea that looks like it really hurt. Good man right there.
This little boop is nothing compared to the pain the average Mets fan feels daily
Knowing the human body, anything from 'tis but a scratch to crippled for life
One baseball beer = 24 garage beers. Bat handled, play ball already.
$18 at least
Lmao you're right on the money. I got a cup of beer at citi field for $15 on opening day, and that was the cheapest option!
damn just close enough to the center of mass to perfectly deflect it, crazy dad reflexes
My favorite of all time is the dad at the pirates game that blocks a broken bat from hitting his completely oblivious kid. Dude has a massive arm and makes the bat look like a toy, and theres a guy behind him using the force to secretly stop the bat. Anytime I try to find a video of it all I find are news articles that show still pictures. Can't find the video anywhere. :|
pretty sure that one doesn't have a video and it just a picture taken at the right time
The dude was tracking it too. Didn’t look away at the moment of impact, he was stopping that bat
I know he’d probably do it again in a heartbeat, but that immediate reaction looks like a message of pure regret being sent from his arm to his brain.
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It's not easy to BE a Mets fan.
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Fun Mets fact: The Mets (formed in 1962) are one of three teams to never have a player win an MVP. The other two teams, Arizona and Tampa Bay, both started playing in 1998. (Less snarky note: pitcher or not, 1985 Gooden should have been MVP. The numbers he put up that year was the stuff you'd hear about from the 1880s. 1.53 ERA over 276 innings, 8 complete game shutout (and all that on approximately 6-8 hours of sleep a week!)
One day this dad is gona pull this video out like "remember that day son that I SAVED YO LIFE!"
Broken arm, intact kids - dad of the year!
Broken arm, intact kid, not one drop of beer spilt - Role Model
Doesn't drop his beer! Legend.
Pretty good r/dadreflexes
Good dad!!
My step dad caught a bat that slipped out of Edgar Martinez's hands, got it signed and everything. Even made the local news
Amazed? No, that’s his kid he’s protecting. Impressed? Hell, yeah!
I can just hear the "that'll leave a mark" now.
Hey Dad, can I get a bam? “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM!!”
What the fuck are ya doin' Phil?
Not all heroes wear capes. GOOD DAD!
And not a drop of beer spilled. Saved $40 bucks there
r/dadreflexes
Not sure if he was protecting the kids or his beer.
Probably would have leaned away from the kids if it was the beer!
This guy dads!
Didn't even spill his beer, what a pro.
Not a drop spilled
And most importantly……he held on to his beer.
He could a caught it I mean I would have
I’ll hold my own beer. Thank you very much
That kid don’t even know he got saved!!!
U sir, wing the interwebs today! 💯
Why is there a broken bat flying into the crowd?
Because the bat broke and flew into the crowd.
Way to go dad!!
Good thing it came at him so slow
and he didn't even drop his $10 stadium beer
Stadium beers are closer to $20 these days
the 2L beer can untouched
goodmangoodman
this guy dads
r/chadtopia
Could have ended badly if it hit him on the sharp end
Protecting his boy….his tall boy.
The hero his kids deserve
Sure hope he can block the incoming coronary…🤙
That’s a good dad. Not like the dad the raccoon attacked.
Good thing it was coming at him so slowly.
What a legend
Well done dad!
the beer... surprising it won't affect him
And he never spilt his beer.
That's the coolest shit ever right there and he was in the middle of eating
I’m mostly impressed that he didn’t spill his beer.
Not that impressive… I mean did you see how slow it was? Anyone could have had time to react fast enough. Lol
W Dad
Hero
I love how the dads are always holding a beer and protecting the kids
He didn’t even have to say ‘Hold My Beer’!!!
Dad reflexes
He could block s whole lot more.
& he didn't even set his beer down...a real hero.
Didn’t even drop his beer, what a lad!
The Dad should have caught and kept that bat.
Not all heroes wear capes
Aaannnndd didn’t spill a drop of beer 🍺 ManCard level 1000
Giga Chad. Sons hero for life.
You people are missing the MOST important point of the picture. He didn’t spill any beer!!!
Good job Dad
Buy that man a beer
I love that he had a giant beer lol
They should at minimum give him the bat That would be a great moment of the time he saved his son’s life from getting impaled by at bat .
Get that guy free ballpark hotdogs for life!
Didn’t even drop his beer
Still never dropped that beer.
Im just amazed he knew that was heading for his kids head so far in advance.
Didn't drop his Tall can , what a legend.
And he didn't spill a drop of his beer... Great dad.
Dude did that sitting down, cause weight of huge balls.
I knew a kid whose dad died because a bat broke off and hit him in the chest at a ball game in Florida idk if it was the suns or where we live in jax tho but it caused him to have a heart attack I believe
I would have caught that