Video: Cell Phone-Yakking Yanks Fan Catches Ball With Face

The Yankees lost to the Mariners last night, but at least some poetic justice was doled out. In the top of the 5th inning, Mariner Rob Johnson hit a ground rule double that bounced into the right field seats, right into a Yankees Stadium patron too distracted by his cell phone to notice the ball about to careen into his face.

The only way this video could be funnier would be if the ball hit him in the groin:

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By Ben Yakas in News on June 30, 2010 1:56 PM

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Wza

Love it!

Gwinny

haha, I was at this game -- but all the way on the other side, so I didn't see it (and they didn't replay it for us in the stadium). rats!

famdoc

Oh, that is why I never get invited to any parties.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/sports/20iht-BASE.1.12164014.html

jaycjay

The fact that people have been seriously hurt by fly balls doesn't mean that this guy was "nearly" killed. He was no more close to being killed than was anyone else in the stadium; any of those spectators could have been the victim of some weird fluke that could have killed them. They weren't. Neither was he.

It's pretty unlikely, in fact, that he was hurt enough by that glancing blow from a ball bouncing upwards to even still feel it a couple of hours later.

Cannibal

sorry I was sleeping. Did you say something?

Kelles

The CBS guy called him an 'idiot.' There was a girl with a glove right next to him!

famdoc

While I wonder why so many people spend so much money on Yankee tickets and then proceed to either talk on their cell phones or text on their Crackberries for the entire game, there's nothing funny about this video. The guy may be a douch, but he was very nearly a dead douche.

Reflect

Its the same reson people travel. Not to learn anything about the country, just for the superficial reason of being there. And real idiots are anchors who spout bullshyt and hype on there shifts for nice condos and cars. Sell outs

Cannibal

He was NOT nearly dead, could you exaggerate any more??? And it is funny, even the news anchors are laughing at him.

You sound like you'd be the life of the party...

jaycjay

"he was very nearly a dead douche."

Slight possibility, I suppose, but extremely unlikely given the ball's trajectory and speed. A line drive hitting someone wouldn't be funny, but a slow bounce over the wall hitting a guy on a cell phone is funny.