Turns Out That Cubs Fan Who Went Viral Isn't Actually A Terrible Person

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All right, so if this angle is actually true, then that little kid did a great finesse job of getting a signed Javier Baez baseball.

So, during Sunday’s series finale between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals, a fan was shown taking a baseball meant for a little kid, as Cubs’ first base coach Will Venable tossed a foul ball to the front row in the direction of the young Cubs fan.

The little kid missed it and the ball went under the seats and that’s when this other Cubs fan went viral.

When going to a baseball game, DON'T be this guy. pic.twitter.com/pAeiRN6Q2X

— Cut4 (@Cut4) July 22, 2018

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It was all over social media. I shared it too and trust me, calling him a douchebag is pretty tame compared to some of the other reactions.

I mean, this guy got dragged on Twitter. It was brutal. Yet, according to David Kaplan, everything is OK and the guy who took the ball away from the young fan is also not a bad guy.

I spoke with people from the Cubs. The man who grabbed the ball on the widely seen video had actually already helped the little boy get a ball earlier. The young man has a game used ball and a Javy Baez ball. All is well. Guy is A-OK so let it go people.

— David Kaplan (@thekapman) July 23, 2018

Or the guy knows someone in the Cubs organization and was like, “hey, I looked a like a dick here, I’m getting ethered on social media, so let’s get this kid a signed ball or something.”

There’s also this theory that came from the comment section to our post on Facebook of someone who claims to know the guy and said he’s autistic.

That person wrote the following.

“Guys I know this man personally and he suffers from autism and doesn’t understand the situation. He has the mind of a child. Please don’t comment on what you don’t understand.”

If that’s the case, our bad, but also it’s not like anyone seeing the video knows that either, so of course just looking at the act itself will bring on ridicule from everyone.

But then there was also this reply to the autism claim.

I’d beat u my life he wasn’t autistic! If you have worked with or have family who suffer from autism you would know that he is clearly not autistic. If he has a mind of a child like u say he would have never handed the ball over he would have held onto it with much excitement and taking it from his hands would have been nearly impossible without a episode.

So, who the hell actually knows.

Anyway, if you don’t buy the autism story, I think the realization that he looked bad on the internet led to this dude eventually doing the right thing.

The other ball the kid has was the one the same guy caught and gave him before this. I was sitting next to him.

— Chuck Mycoff (@cmycoff2) July 22, 2018

He had already helped that kid get a ball. He gave two more away to kids also. He was a great guy. TV got this all wrong.

— Chuck Mycoff (@cmycoff2) July 22, 2018

Let’s also remember that whatever the real story here is, you shouldn’t actually want some sort of bad thing to happen to that dude. Like, I saw someone asking for all of this guy’s personal info so that he could harass him.

A tad much I’d say.

Plus, that kid got a nice surprise at the end.