Who is the “Karen phillies”? How the viral drama on a Home Run ball took place – and what the father and his son said
A father who was reprimanded by a woman in a swimsuit from Philadelphia Phillies to abandon a Home Run ball he had caught for his young son who talks about the incident while online detectives continue to look in vain for the identity of “Phillies Karen”.
“I wanted her to go away,” said Drew Feltwell to NBC Philadelphia on Saturday, a day after her altercation with the woman has become viral. “Always incredulous that she walked there like that.”
Feltwell, a fan of New Jersey Phillies who now lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, attended the Friday evening match between the Phillies and Miami Marlins at Loandepot Park in Miami with his wife and two children.
The Feltwell family was in the left field stands when the central field player of the Phillies, Harrison Bader, struck a home run that landed near them at the top of the fourth round.
What happened next?
The field player in the center of Philadelphia Phillies, Harrison Bader, famous with his teammates after hitting a Home Run against the Miami Marlins on Friday in Miami. (Sam Navarro / Imagn images)
Several fans, including Feltwell, rushed to find the ball. He caught him, turned around, returned to his family, gave his son Lincoln the ball and hugged him.
“I was already ecstatic, as if I had the Bader Home Run ball, and I can put it in my son’s glove,” recalls Fellwell. “Then she comes.”
The video published on social networks shows an approach to Feltwell woman as he kissed his son and angry that he will give him the ball.
“She just shouted in my ear,” it’s my ball “like, super noisy,” said Fellwell. “I jumped from my skin and I said to myself, you know, like” Why are you here? ” You know, “go”. »»
After a brief exchange of time, Feltwell took the ball of her son’s glove and gave him, and she moved away.
Feltwell said he had decided to defuse the situation before he could degenerate.
“I had a fork on the road: either do something that I was probably going to regret or be a dad and show him how to defuse the situation,” said Fellwell. “So that’s where I went.”
“I was not very happy that we had to give it to him,” added Lincoln, who will soon be 10 years old. “But we can’t win.”
A Marlins representative gave Lincoln a bag of gifts.
After the match, Bader met the family and gave Lincoln a signed bat.
The altercation above the Home Run ball intervened just a few days after a similar scene took place at the US Open. In this incident, a man was taken on video by taking a hat from a tennis player who was trying to give him to a young fan.
The man apologized later, saying that he believed that the player intended to give him the ceiling for his sons, who had previously asked for autographs.
“This erroneous belief made me reach instinctively,” wrote Piotr Szczerek in an article on Facebook. “Today, I know that I did something that looked like a deliberateness of a child’s memory. It was not my intention, but that does not change the fact that I injured the boy and disappointed the fans.”
The search for “Phillies Karen”
The woman from the Phillies jersey who reprimanded Feltwell was then hooked. (Tailgate of Phillies / X)
Meanwhile, the woman in the Phillies jersey was also seen on video confronted with another man sitting in the left field of the stands who had apparently heckled her for her behavior.
She was hooked when she returned to her headquarters and quickly poured the entire section.
While the video of his initial confrontation with Feltwell spread on social networks during the weekend, online detectives in search of the real “Phillies Karen” identified it badly.
“Ok everyone, I’m not the crazy Philly Mom (but I would really like to be as thin as it is and move as fast),” published Cheryl Richardson-Wagner on Facebook on Saturday. “And I’m a fan of Red Sox!”
Philadelphia Phillies Voltueur, Harrison Bader, reacts after having removed his next At-Bat. (Marta Lavandier / AP)
A school district of New Jersey also published a statement saying that the woman in question does not work for the school system.
“The woman identified on social networks like ‘Phillies Karen’ is not, and has never been an employee of Hammonton public schools located in Hammonton, New Jersey,” said the district in an article on Facebook. “Whoever works for our school district, frequented as a student or who lives in our community would obviously have caught the ball in the first place, avoiding this whole situation!”
Blowout Cards, an online baseball card retailer, offers women $ 5,000 for the ball – but only if she signs with apology.
“We will offer $ 5,000 to that Baseball here, right now … But there is a catch, “said the company in an article on its website.” We want this ball to be signed and inscribed by it – and only it, which it is – “ I am sorry ” so that we can simply return it to the child. Our offer is official and the offer is firm. “”
The incident drew so much attention to social networks that it was even parodied by the Bananas of Savannah, the Georgia baseball team, who compared the woman to Grinch in a sketch during a match during the weekend.
In an interview with USA Today on Monday, Feltwell said he had heard many people who swore to recover the unidentified woman’s ball – but he doesn’t want to.
“Please don’t do anything to this lady,” said Feltwell. “Leave it alone. You know, someone knows her and can talk to her, it’s different. But God, I don’t want people to break in their house and things like that. Internet has already spoiled it. ”
