Fans, players cry foul at ball hog

ARLINGTON, Texas - A foul ball created about as much excitement off the field as the Texas Rangers did on the field Sunday in the team's 13-4 interleague loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

St. Louis led 12-0 in the third when a foul ball hit into the stands by Gary Matthews Jr. got more attention than anything on the field.

In the ensuing scramble, a husky man jumped over a row of seats and pinned a 4-year-old boy against the seats with his legs while diving to get the ball.

To no avail, fans started chanting "Give him the ball! Give him the ball!"

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There was also a little extra for the man who got the ball, but he left two innings later and never received the Cardinals T-shirt on which "Tough Guy" and "Ball Stealer" were written by reliever Steve Kline.

"I'm a big fan of giving kids balls," Kline said. "He was a real jerk about it. That's part of life, people like that in the world. They do something like that - I don't understand."

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Was he a Bush? Marvin, maybe?

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who pinned the kid to his seat looked like a big fat Freeper. What a moran!!!!

evidently they held the camera on him for quite some time. Loser.

The guy could be Kerry's kid brother, Skippy (the one engaged to Chelsea Clinton, the one who interns at the Carter Center), and he'd still be king of the jerks.