Terry May was ejected for saying to Mark Yoder
 MY>> You can't blame the kid for anything.
 TM> So if a kid breaks the rules, you just dismiss it as "kids will be kids"
 TM> and pat them on the back, or in this case, make them into a hero?
 TM> That's a hell of a way to teach kids to respect the law.
No.  The whole issue here is the umpire's call, not what the kid did or 
didn't do.  Regardless of the situation, the correct call was *NOT* a home 
run. Personally, after seeing the replay, my judgement would have been that 
the ball would have hit the wall before being caught.  The fielder was *NOT* 
jumping up when the kid caught the ball three feet over his head, and seeing 
the trajectory of the ball, had he remained flat-footed on the ground, he 
would not have caught the ball on the fly.
Is there anywhere in Yankee stadium, either posted for fans to read, or 
printed on tickets that says "Fans shall not reach into the field of 
play..."?  I doubt it.  That doesn't mean that it's not wrong, but 
technically speaking, I don't think the kid broke any rules, or broke the 
law.  The rules of baseball, however, *DO* cover what the correct call is 
when a situation like this happens.  The travesty of the situation is *NOT* 
that an exhuberant kid reached out and touched a ball... the travesty is that 
the correct call was not made by the umpiring crew.
 MY>> 90% or more of any age person in the United States that was
 MY>> sitting in the same seat the kid was would have tried to catch
 MY>> the ball.
 TM> Then why was he the only one with his glove stretched out over the
 TM> fence?
Um... maybe because the ball wasn't flying at the other 2,000 people who had 
gloves?
 MY>> Every kid and most men who go to games would LOVE to catch a foul
 MY>> ball off the pitcher's bat in the middle of June, let alone a
 MY>> HOMERUN in the playoffs.
 TM> It wasn't a home run.  That's the point.
Same situation, either way.  The foul ball could have been the potential last 
out, and the difference between winning or having the batter get one more 
swing for the fence.
I think the cure to all of this is putting a basket (ala Wrigley Field) on 
the fence at Yankee Stadium so that fan's cannot reach into the field of 
play.. they can only reach into the fence basket to grab balls that would 
already be a homerun.
 -= .\\ark =-
... "The only victory over love is flight."  Napoleon
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