He waved her down front between innings and handed her a ball, which was quite effective. MLB umpire Laz Diaz saw a child at a White Sox-Astros game earlier this season with a sign saying it was her birthday.
Tossing the ball to a little kid isn’t a reliable way of ensuring it gets to him or her, and it’s too much to expect an adult to honor some code not everyone knows. Some people have continued to quibble, however, blasting the man for violating a so-called unwritten rule that purportedly dictates the man should have let the child who bobbled the catch grab the ball himself and decide what to do with it or not.īut if these unwritten rules are so iron-clad, maybe they need to be written out, flashed on the video boards and announced before the game along with the warnings to fans not to go on the field or interfere with a ball in play. The Taylors say the boy would have given it to another child, too. (Not eager to be further exposed to the public - and who can blame them? - the family would not give media its full name or hometown.) They in fact were grateful he had helped the boy get a ball earlier. The Tribune, which also spoke to Mycoff, and attempted to set the record straight as well.Įventually the boy’s mother issued a statement through the Cubs on behalf of the Taylor family that the boy and everyone else did nothing wrong. David Kaplan of NBC Sports Chicago and ESPN’s WMVP-AM 1000 tweeted late Sunday what he had heard from Cubs sources, and spoke Monday morning with Chuck Mycoff, who was seated next to the man, on his radio program with Eddie Olczyk. Fans who seated nearby tweeted in his defense.
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