I'm with you.

The guy's eye got pretty dicked up. And he's not going after millions in non-economic damages; he's looking to get his bills paid.

Seriously, a mascot whipping a hot dog hard enough to detach a friggen retina is probably not something he ought be doing. I fail to see how flinging a hot dog hard enough to do legitimate damage, while doing so in a generally 'out of control' manner, is exercising sufficient due care.

Were the mascot throwing a baseball rather than a hot dog, would the outcry against this guy be the same? No, I highly doubt it. But the fact that 'c'mon, the guy got hit by a hot dog' gives the outraged a rallying cry makes his demands seem unreasonable.

But the end result is the same - the mascot threw a projectile with enough force (and with enough mass) and in a careless enough fashion to hit a bystander in the eye and detach his retina. That's absolutely a breach of duty by the Royals.

This seems pretty reasonable to me.

Exactly? So you went to the game with Saul Good that night and personally witnessed what happened?

Did you go out for dinner and drinks after the game?

GET RICH OR DIE TRYING! That's what my man Fifty said!

So maybe the parent shouldn't bring a 5 year old to a baseball game that doesn't have the maturity to understand what is going around them. Under this argument, children shouldn't be allowed at a baseball game at all. I can't say I disagree with that, because, they could easily get hit by a bat, foul ball, etc. So, if a child was sitting there, was hit by a foul ball, what would you think? Like others have said, when slugger is doing the promotion, it's OBVIOUS to what is going on. What do you go to baseball game for? To read your iPad, you are a spectator, you are looking at what is going on on the field and around you as it relates to the baseball game. You aren't sitting in starbucks reading a book and someone chucks a latte at your grill.

No, it is NOT obvious what is going on. I have never seen a promotion where I was afraid of getting hurt. NEVER. You know why? Because if you are doing a promotion that gets people hurt, you shouldn't be doing it. Period.

I brought up the five year old because the argument that everybody should be paying attention to the mascot is ridiculous. The speed that this hot dog had to have hit this guy's eye at was obviously fast enough that you question if a kid would have caught it either. That's dangerous.

Every time I see t-shirt cannons they got shot UP in the air. Throwing anything at eye level is just plain stupid. The Royals are absolutely on the hook here. They approved a promotion where somebody could get hurt. They took no care to wrap the hot dog up protectively. And you have a mascot who's obviously throwing it too hard and, worse, is carelessly throwing it behind his back instead of aiming for someone.

Nexr time slugger gets near me im just running away. Just gonna dive on the ground. You aint injuring me you maniacal lion.

HOW YOUR TEAMS MASCOT IS PLOTTING TO KILL YOU! ON THE NEXT 60 MINUTES. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM HOT DOGS.

Yeah. You have to be at the game to know what a hot dog toss is like. Maybe this one used hot dogs made of steel being thrown by Randy Johnson...or maybe some guy got hit in the face by a hot dog because he sucks at life.

It CLEARLY had a chance of inflicting SERIOUS MEDICAL DAMAGE? Really? Surely, then, people must have been running away screaming, "NOOOO! I didn't sign up for this!" while this was going on, then. I mean, throwing lit M-80s into the crowd could clearly cause serious medical damage. Firing water balloons full of boiling grease from the grease traps at fans would clearly cause serious medical damage. If lobbing hotdogs to clamoring fans is CLEARLY going to cause SERIOUS MEDICAL DAMAGE, then surely this guy would have been hit from behind while trying to flee the dangerous situation rather than hit in the eye.

You know how you can tell when someone has run out of useful things to say?

They start using All-Caps in their straw-men. Simply making illogical reaches doesn't work any more - it's time to start doing so emphatically.

Saul and BWillie have certainly acquitted themselves nicely thus far.

Carry on, gents. You're doing great.

Yeah. The royals just need to pay his medical expenses and maybe free tickets and it would go away. The guy seems to only be going after the damage. Not retirement.

And it was probably a lottery shot to cause that damage but it happened.

I'd have to let this one slide just so I wouldnt be known as the guy that got his eye poked out by a weiner.

LMAO

This event is like the climax scene from Ghostbusters where the guy can't clear his mind, so he thinks of the most harmless thing possible...the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. He might as well have imagined a big fuzzy costumed character tossing hot dogs to fans at a baseball game.

To say that the Royals should have anticipated someone getting injured is preposterous. Fans at a professional sporting event should be expected to have a minimum amount of awareness of what is going on around them. If you don't notice that everyone around you is clamoring for hot dogs being tossed by the giant Lion mascot standing 20 feet away from you...that's on you.

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dammit, now I want a hot dog and the closest QT is in Dallas. Thanks slugger. asshole.