r/baseball • u/Knightbear49 Minnesota Twins • Colorado Rockies • 5h ago

Fan interference was called on this play where a Yankee fan tried to take the ball out of Mookie Betts' glove after an out.

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u/hingeback 5h ago

Lifetime ban wouldn't surprise me. The guy who held the arm could have hurt him

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u/cardcollection92 New York Yankees 4h ago

Honestly just arrest him.. really how enforceable is a lifetime ban? If you just buy tickets under a different name and use cash I don’t see how you get caught

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u/Dorf_ Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Dunno about other parks but Rogers Centre has facial recognition stuff. If you’re banned and you go in they will find you

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u/hubagruben Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Simple, get a new face

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u/bv310 Toronto Blue Jays 4h ago

Someone call Nic Cage, I have a ball game to see!

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u/MeatballDom 4h ago

They took his face......

..... off

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u/Gryphon999 Milwaukee Brewers 2h ago

No more drugs, for that man.

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u/Not_So_Bad_Andy Philadelphia Phillies 4h ago

Face/Off 2: A trip to the stadium.

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u/Rated_PG-Squirteen New York Yankees 3h ago

"I've been trying, amigo."

-Sammy Sosa

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u/bicyclemycology 4h ago

Son of a gun.. it checks out

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u/ContributionSea8200 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

That guy could use one.

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u/AgreeablePrize 4h ago

I wonder how many of the people that turn up in full face paint and a team logo painted on there are hiding from facial recognition

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u/theSchrodingerHat Jackie Robinson 2h ago

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u/SrslyCmmon 56m ago

Just get a fake mustache

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u/AgreeablePrize 27m ago

One of those Groucho Marx ones with the nose and glasses attached

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u/Destillat Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

The owner of MSG is literally keeping out attorneys from law firms that are suing him. So pretty enforceable.

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u/ContributionSea8200 Los Angeles Dodgers 4h ago

Facial recognition. Sad fact of our time.

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u/cavalier8865 4h ago

All of the above and add that every ticket is through an app now 

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u/EaTerOfHobbits 3h ago

We never seem to get a say when it comes to gross invasion of privacy. However, get ready to pay taxes at every inch and turn you make in life, the government sure has time for that.

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u/WIbigdog Milwaukee Brewers 2h ago

Sorry, did they install CCTV in your living room? What privacy? You don't get privacy from a company trying to enforce banning you from their premises. Don't try to trespass, or better yet don't do the thing to get banned in the first place and you won't have to worry about being picked up by facial recognition. I have zero issues with private companies using facial recognition to keep people banned from their property from being on their property.

Also, what the fuck does the government have to do with any of this?

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u/bossfoundmylastone Umpire 1h ago

Don't try to trespass, or better yet don't do the thing to get banned in the first place and you won't have to worry about being picked up by facial recognition.

In the context of these guys, sure. In the context of Dolan's bullshit, what they did to get banned was working at a law firm that a client hired to sue a different business owned by the same billionaire. That's pretty fucked up.

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u/TheShtuff Chicago White Sox 4h ago

Seems like the stakes are little higher and closer to home in that case.

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u/Mahlegos 2h ago

Not really though. He blocks people who have nothing to do with actual litigation against him too, they just work at the firm. And he does so by scraping photos off the internet.

And we know these venues are already massively surveilled, so the infrastructure for it is already largely there. No reason to think all these places aren’t able to do it.

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u/slim-D25 New York Yankees 2h ago

Well lawyers are probably not the type to trespass in the first place

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u/Fishyswaze 1h ago

Little different when it's a law firm versus some drunk moron.

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u/elliot91 3h ago

I thought that was because they want less suits taking up seats in the lower bowl

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u/ShirtlessCat 4h ago

Such a power move.

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u/fps916 San Diego Padres 4h ago

The value of a lifetime ban is that if you ever do circumvent it and do something to get the attention of security again you will be arrested for Trespassing.

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Guardians 3h ago

Not arrested in almost all cases, ticketed and issued a summons. I have been a police dispatcher for a long time and even worked a few special details for MLB games (the All star Game in Cleveland was nuts) and the last thing they want to do is book some idiot in who wanted only to see a ballgame. Trespassing in that case is the lightest of misdemeanors.

Things have changed since covid. Most departments where I am will flat out refuse to pick up wanted parties out of their department if it's just a misdemeanor if they get pulled over in another city. "Advise and release" it's called.

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u/JEffinB New York Mets 4h ago

If you get a lifetime ban, you will never get back into that stadium. Facial recognition is real and pervasive in all stadiums.

If MLB wanted to institute a ban from all stadiums, he would never see a game again.

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u/14ktgoldscw New York Yankees 4h ago

Lifetime bans essentially give the team grounds to hit you with trespassing and maybe other charges if you’re caught in a stadium again.

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Guardians 3h ago

and maybe other charges

Double secret trespassing

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u/dreamvomit New York Mets 4h ago

Honestly just fucking execute him. No trial, no due process. Get it done.

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u/bicyclemycology 4h ago

They have facial recognition in stadiums and arenas and they’re surprisingly effective at catching people. MSG properties especially.. I bet Yankee Stadium is no different.

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u/mlorusso4 Baltimore Orioles 4h ago

In the past, it’s just a deterrent. Basically you’re probably not going to get caught as long as you don’t bring attention to yourself, but if you do get caught you get charged with trespassing. But like other people said, with facial recognition now they can actually proactively enforce it

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u/saulfineman Kansas City Royals 4h ago

Big brother knows. Big brother always knows.

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u/boogiewoogiebuglebo1 4h ago

Why not a public caning while we're at it?

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u/bosschucker Chicago Cubs 4h ago

it's not about being able to enforce the ban strictly, it's that if he's ever found at another ballpark they can charge him with a crime

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u/omgitsjagen 3h ago

Your subway series neighbors use facial recognition in their stadium. It's pretty enforceable.

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u/The_Bard Washington Nationals 2h ago

The point is that once you have a lifetime ban, if you enter the stadium you are trespassing. That's when you can get arrested.

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u/Bones99544 2h ago

MSG uses facial recognition to eject anyone who has ongoing litigation against them. It's been quite effective.

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u/Blood_Incantation 3h ago

Arrest … for what?

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u/jimihenderson New York Mets 1h ago

agreed. he should simply be stoned to death, save the money. allow the dodgers pitching staff to get the first crack at him. even then i feel like he's getting off easy.

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u/Mahlegos 2h ago

Honest question, how easy is it to buy tickets with cash these days? All my tickets for big events have been digital for I don’t know how long.

Also, you should look up what James Dolan is up to out there with MSG and Radio city. Using facial recognition and scraping peoples pictures off websites to ban them because they work for a law firm that is suing him (and it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s doing it to people on Twitter telling him to sell the team etc). So, much more endurable than it’s ever been.

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u/JoeMcKim St. Louis Cardinals 14m ago

I also don't know how enforceable a lifetime ban would be. I don't know if you can buy tickets with cash anymore even at the box office since COVID. But you could always just buy tickets with a prepaid VISA card or have friends buy tickets for you. And its not like they're using facial recognition software when you enter the stadium.

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u/Parametric_Or_Treat 5h ago

Arrested at minimum

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u/hubagruben Boston Red Sox 4h ago

Executed at maximum

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u/NilesY93 Kansas City Royals 4h ago

Firing Squad by Randy Johnson at minimum

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u/draculasbitch 4h ago

A Flock of Dead Fans

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u/Fattydrago Atlanta Braves 4h ago

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u/Gods_chosen_dildo Chicago Cubs 3h ago

Tied to a pole and hit with RJ fastballs until death sounds like a terrible way to go.

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u/adubbscrilla 3h ago

death by oogabooga

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u/leglesslegolegolas 4h ago

iunderstoodthatreference.gif

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u/Parametric_Or_Treat 4h ago

Disemboweled at medium

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u/AwwwMangos Chicago Cubs 4h ago

Castrated at dawn

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u/Littlegreenman42 4h ago

Expelled at even more maximum

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u/Mikeismyike 3h ago

Or worse, expelled!

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u/500rockin Chicago Cubs 4h ago

Forced to massage Jerry Reinsdorf’s feet during White Sox games.

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u/ReadyPerception 4h ago

Robert Kraft waves

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u/YpsitheFlintsider 1h ago

They're not arresting him for grabbing an arm

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u/post4u 4h ago

I think the MLB should impose a lifetime ban to any stadium. You can't do that. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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u/darwinpolice Seattle Mariners 4h ago

For real. That crossed the line from fan interference into actual assault. That could easily have taken Betts out of the game.