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Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
Fan who fell to death at Rangers game identified
By Karen Brooks | Reuters – 1 hour 18 minutes ago
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A baseball fan who fell to his death trying to catch a ball at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, was identified Friday as 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone of Brownwood.
Stone, a firefighter in the small town three hours southwest of the ballpark, was trying to catch a ball tossed by one of the players during the game between the Rangers and the Oakland Athletics Thursday when he fell 20 feet from his seat in the lower left field Section 5, officials said.
He was reaching for a ball thrown by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton during the second inning when he fell over the railing and landed behind the left wall, out of view from the field, officials said.
His young son, Cooper, was with him at the time, Brownwood officials said.
"We are deeply saddened to learn that the man who fell has passed away as a result of this tragic accident," Texas Rangers President Nolan Ryan said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."
Stone was 17-year veteran of the fire department in Brownwood, said City Manager Bobby Rountree.
In July 2010, an area firefighter, Tyler Morris, suffered minor injuries when he fell from the stands at Rangers Ballpark trying to catch a foul ball.
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thats fucked up dude 
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Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
God that's horrific...very young and with his child watching too. Very sad.
Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
Yeah it's really terrible. I'm glad to hear Hamilton is not going to beat himself up over it. It can really screw with your head if you go to that place of "if I hadn't thrown him the foul ball, he'd be alive today" stuff.
My best wishes to the late Mr. Stone's son and family. I heard Nolan Ryan has set up a memorial fund for the boy, in his father's memory.
Nolan has always been a total class act.
Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
I was thinking that too. It's gotta be a tough situation for Hamilton, having thrown the ball and watched the whole event unfold the way it did. Obviously it's not his fault though. Hopefully he can move on without feeling any guilt.
I remember "sandman" going through something similar last year. He can jump in if he still posts here, but as I remember it he was at a Pearl Jam concert and someone fell on him from the seats above him. The guy was drunk and "sandman" got pretty messed up. Had to go to the hospital, missed the rest of the show. Sounded like an ugly situation. Weird thing is, he probably saved the guys life by breaking his fall, yet suffered more severe injuries himself.
Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
Such a terrible story. You can't help but think why something like that happens. I know some people think everything happens for a reason and I'm one of those people to an extent but why something like this? The manner in which it happend is so tagic, so not cool. Things like this really make ya wonder about stuff. For me I always think of god and things. If God is real and if he's a loving God why take such a great moment with father and son and shit all over it ya know? Sorry to go off topic but things like this bother me.
My buddy Derek Morris plays for the Phoenix Coyotes in the NHL. A few years back(maybe ten or so now) he shot a puck and it deflected off a Columbus Blue Jackets player's stick and it killed a little girl in the crowd who was there with her dad for her birthday. That's why the NHL has netting around the glass now. I believe they are called Kelly Nets as a tribute to the little girl. My buddy had a hard time with it for a bit. He knew full well it wasn't his fault but he still thought. What if I had waited a split second later to shoot or passed it off. The Columbus player probably felt pretty bad as well but again not his fault.
It's hard to think back at how long the NHL went without netting behind the glass.
Anyways I always feel real bad for everyone involved in these things. It just seems so messed up
Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
Yeah I kind of ask those same questions and all I get is the "God works in mysterious ways" stuff... so in other words - DEFLECTION.
I heard a mother the other day who's 4-year old daughter was ran over by a car and killed, and she responded, "some things in life just don't have answers, and even if God were to answer the question, we wouldn't like the answer enough that we got and it still wouldn't make any sense to our logic, so why bother".
Pretty much sums it all up.
Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
Fan almost falls from Chase Field stands at Home Run Derby
By David Brown
After what happened at the Home Run Derby on Monday night, we as a baseball-loving nation need to run a check on our priorities.
Wherever "catching a baseball" ranks — and it's high, apparently — it ought to be made less important.
Keith Carmickle — the man pictured above hanging on by his right arm, with his baseball glove dangling from his left hand — almost fell about 20 feet to a pool deck below at Chase Field after he chased a home run hit to center by Prince Fielder.
Thankfully, he didn't catch the ball. Or fall. But he almost went over completely. As the Associated Press reports, he was saved by his brother and a friend.
"I thought: I've lived a good life," Carmickle said about dangling.
Seated in a small section of seats above the right-field fence, Carmickle, of Kingman [Ariz.], and his group had already grabbed home run balls by Robinson Cano(notes) and Adrian Gonzalez(notes), and were looking to add another to their collection when Milwaukee's Prince Fielder came up in the second round of the derby.
Trying to snare a towering shot by Fielder, Carmickle stepped up onto a metal table about 18 inches wide and reached down to catch the catch. He missed the ball, which hit the wall several feet below him, and the momentum carried him forward, headfirst over a short railing.
Carmickle was headed for a hard landing when his friend, Aaron Nelson, grabbed his legs and his brother, Kraig, grabbed him around the arms. The crowd above and below gasping, Carmickle dangled briefly over a deck where a couple of cameras were positioned behind Chase Field's pool before his brother, Nelson and a few fans pulled him back to his seat.
Carmickle's good fortune came on the same day as a memorial service for Shannon Stone, the man who fell at Rangers Ballpark on Thursday and died that day as a result of his injuries after trying to catch a ball. Stone's story must have slipped Carmickle's mind.
The circle drawn on the lower-right portion of the screen cap approximates the ground (20 Feet Below). Note the one fan, a woman in front of the "MLB Fan Cave" sign, covering her head. She's just afraid of the ball falling, with no idea what's going on behind her.
Fans cannot and should not rely on ballparks to be 100 percent safe or accident-proof. There's no such thing, anyway. But what Carmickle did — stepping onto a table not made for it, in a part of the ballpark where one can fall — was incredibly foolhardy. Life is not like a video game, where you get extra lives, or can hit "reset."
And it's just a stupid ball, not anything worth your life — or giving the rest of us a scare, for that matter.
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there are more pics and the full story here. ya know its hard to feel sorry for people when they act like such idiots
Re: Fan falls to death at Texas Rangers game
Yeah, no disrespect to the man who lost his life in Texas, but come the hell on...
It's just a goddamn ball.
I've been to many of games in my life where men would rop $40 worth of beer & food, trample their own kids or someone else's, or downright breaks their arms, legs & ribs trying to get to a foul ball...
And STILL not get it.
