Teenager files suit to halt Ohtani 50-50 ball auction

However Matus alleges in the lawsuit that the ball was wrestled off him by two fellow spectators,

The video seems to show a person other than Matus having first possession of the ball.

https://youtu.be/cHrwwe2GYCs?

How about, like, sharing the ball? Or the proceeds? Or putting them to a good cause?

The kid should have put his phone down and used both of his hands. This will probably get thrown out.

shades of Underworld, by Don DeLillo..... " The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up in the Bronx, to trace the history of the baseball that won the New York Giants the pennant in 1951, and encompasses numerous subplots drawn from American history in the second half of the twentieth century. "

anything for a buck

I saw something on social media about when Ohtani was playing in the world baseball classic in Japan. He hit a home run, and a girl caught the ball. The person next to her asked if they could see it, and she obliged. The ball made an almost complete circuit of the stadium before making its way back to the girl.

An interesting contrast.

If you catch a football in a premiership game, you are expected to return it to the ball boys or stewards.

Because it isn't yours.

Not surprising. That must be like a rugby match in the bleachers every time Ohtani hits a home run.

There was a similar suit in 2001 over Barry Bonds record home run ball. The judge split it between the two fans who claimed it. One of them had been the first to lay hands on it, but then got it knocked out of them by a huge pile of fans. The other one was the guy who emerged from the scrummage with the ball firmly in his possession after picking it up off the floor. Not sure if the facts are the same with the Ohtani ball.

If they had waited a few weeks for the thing to settle down, and then auction, this wouldn’t have happened. They got too greedy too soon. Anyway hope the auction fetches a good sum and hope all get a healthy share and good memories

Nice try, little clown..

It's too hard to tell from the video if the boy had the ball in his hand before the guy in the black shirt ended up with it because there's a two-second cut away from it.

If it can't be determined who actually had it first, split the proceeds from the auction, like Moonraker suggested?

If the kid just wants to keep it for memorabilia, then he's going to have to find footage that actually shows him grabbing the ball first.

Greed is such a crazy thing and the fact that they only want it to get money out of people shows they want it for the wrong reason. If you got signed shoes from Michael Jordan or a signed baseball from Ohtani, they didn't sign it for you to sell it for money, they signed it so you can appreciate them and continue to show your support as a fan

Greed is such a crazy thing and the fact that they only want it to get money out of people shows they want it for the wrong reason. If you got signed shoes from Michael Jordan or a signed baseball from Ohtani, they didn't sign it for you to sell it for money, they signed it so you can appreciate them and continue to show your support as a fan

I don't think I agree with this criticism.

The ball is worth as much as 4.5$ million to whoever owns it. Are you telling me if you saw $4.5 million in cash with a sign saying "Free to the first person who picks it up" next to it you wouldn't pick it up because your motivation for doing so would be just greed and not as a means of appreciating the cash and showing your support for it, and you are above all of that?

I don't think I agree with this criticism.

The ball is worth as much as 4.5$ million to whoever owns it. Are you telling me if you saw $4.5 million in cash with a sign saying "Free to the first person who picks it up" next to it you wouldn't pick it up because your motivation for doing so would be just greed and not as a means of appreciating the cash and showing your support for it, and you are above all of that?

If that's the case then nobody should get rights to the ball or it should only be used for donations. It corrupts the fans if they think that way or fight over stuff like that

f that's the case then nobody should get rights to the ball or it should only be used for donations. It corrupts the fans if they think that way or fight over stuff like that

Give me a break. Why take stuff away from the fans? If anything they should be giving more to them, not less.

If you want to talk greed in the game its the owners jacking prices up so much that most families can barely afford to attend a game (not to mention that idiot Fisher who just stomped on every Oakland fan in existence to try to turn a buck in Vegas) and the players demanding contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The fans are the ones getting crushed by all of this. If one of them sometimes lucks out and gets a valuable ball I think its total BS to take that away from them.

If you want to talk greed in the game its the owners jacking prices up so much that most families can barely afford to attend a game (not to mention that idiot Fisher who just stomped on every Oakland fan in existence to try to turn a buck in Vegas) and the players demanding contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

That sounds like a personal problem. If you don't like it watch it on TV I guess. It is disturbing seeing grown ah men take the ball from children just because. Some fans have rotten attitudes but that doesn't get acknowledged in every sport

That sounds like a personal problem.

???? No this isn't a problem personal to me, its a problem faced by pretty much every fan of baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, etc on the planet who isn't a millionaire.

If you don't like it watch it on TV I guess. 

Me watching on TV isn't going to end greed in sports. I mean you are the one who brought greed into the conversation here, not me so.....

It is disturbing seeing grown ah men take the ball from children just because. 

Um, how does your alleged concern for kids square with your proposal to take balls away from fans given that most fans who end up with balls are children?

And yeah while its disturbing to see a grown man take a ball away from a kid, its also uplifting to see a grown man who catches a ball then give it to a kid sitting nearby because he wants to put a smile on that kid's face. The latter happens WAY more often than the former. But under your rule, there will be none of that either.....

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one question only. is that little ball really worth more than the purchase cost?? should the little meaningful ball not have been returned to Ohtani, As footballs are returned (round and oval) to guy sports and lady sports who score a hat-trick. I seek guidance now... when Mahomes hits big figures and connects who gets the silly (apologies from a born Brit) oval thing at the hooter??? Not understand it. If Oh does better in 2025? all just modern-day commercialism and consumption?