Picture #2 is Keith after he stupidly dove for a ball from his stance in Picture #1. Keith apparently is illiterate or has a memory as short as his schlong. Only last week, an adult fan at a Texas Rangers game plunged 20 feet to his death doing the same thing. His 6-year-old son watched him die.
But we're not here to talk about Keith's stupidity. We're here to talk about what drives certain cretins to go into hyper-gonzo mode to catch a worthless baseball.
Because really, that ball Keith dove for has no monetary value. It's not like it's Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run, or Derek Jeter's 3,000th hit. Nor is it for the vicarious thrill of catching it. Keith and his fellow morons had already caught three other home run balls last night.
Is it a competitive thing? The "I'm a man cuz I caught that ball" even if his competition was a bunch of little boys or a couple of fellow drunken neanderthals? Is he so unhappy with his wife, his life, his job, and/or his dog that he has to do this to gain some satisfaction?
I don't know. Personally, I'm all for letting idjits like this plunge to their doom. It improves the gene pool and means more booze for the rest of us.
(*) : Yeah, I spelled his last name backwards. Deliberately. The impression I got from the AzCentral article today was that Keith was proud of his actions. Which means he's probably doing a vanity search right now to see how often his name got mentioned on the Internet today. No reason to give him the satisfaction of finding yet another "hit".
2 comments:
I heard rumors that it was staged because of how well the news cameras were able to capture his idiocy. Either way, I don't get it. Darwin should have taken his @$$.
heh. that makes some sense, especially given the event, the coverage, and the fact that someone had just died due to it the previous week.
still, you have to fake a fall over the railing, and trust your besotted buddies to successfully catch you. i'm not sure that i'd rely on my friends, even when they're sober, to do that.
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