Yes, Virginia, despite everything to the contrary that you've heard, there ARE good and honorable men in this world...

On Friday night in Miami, Drew Feltwell took his wife, daughter and son Lincoln to a major league baseball game to celebrate Lincoln's 10th birthday. The whole family are Philadelphia Phillies fans. So, it was appropriate that they were seated in the outfield bleachers among other Phillies fans. Like every other father, Drew's dream was to grab a home run ball hit into the outfield seats and present it to his son on his birthday. And, guess what? That exact magical opportunity presented itself on Friday night.

Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader came to the plate and smashed a pitch into the left field bleachers. Drew saw it coming, realizing quickly that the ball was going to land a mere twelve to fifteen feet to the right of where he and Lincoln were seated. Fortunately for Drew, the seats between where his family was seated and where the ball landed were almost entirely empty, permitting Drew to get to the ball, retrieve it from the ground and proudly present it to a clearly overjoyed Lincoln. Drew embraced his son while his daughter and wife looked on beaming. Pure magic. And then, all hell broke loose...

A woman seated behind the seat where the ball landed ran up to Drew and Lincoln. She was screaming at Drew at the top of her lungs. She reached for Drew's arm, despite the fact that Lincoln now held the ball. She yelled that Drew had "stolen" the ball from her and that the ball "belonged" to her since it had landed close to where she was seated. This is how Drew described the situation...

“I jumped out of my skin and I was like, you know, like ‘Why are you here?’ you know, ‘Go away.’ And she’s like, ‘That’s my ball! You stole out of – those are from our seats.’ And I said, ‘There was nobody in that seat,’ you know. She said, ‘That’s from where we were sitting,’ and she just went on and on.”

“I don’t even remember what she said, it was, you know, a lot of eyes on us by that time and the ball was already in his (Lincoln's) glove and she just wouldn’t stop and I mean, I’m literally leaning back as she’s in my face yelling and yelling and I pretty much just wanted her to go away because I had a fork in the road: either do something I was probably going to regret or be dad and show him how to deescalate the situation so that’s where I went.”

Drew's son Lincoln said "he felt like he had to give the ball to the screaming lady because she was never going to back down." The boy gave up his prize to the screaming woman.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/phillies-fan-reveals-why-gave-082657041.html

Upon returning to her seats, boos promptly rained down on the birthday baseball bamboozler. Her reaction? She proceeded to get up from her seat, turn around and give everyone around her, including several children, the finger. Clearly a classy lady. For their part, the Philadelphia Phillies team, upon learning what had happened, located Drew and his family. Phillies outfielder Harrison Bader presented Lincoln with a signed bat and a swag ball full of balls and Phillies merchandise for him and his sister. For their part, an army of internet sleuths more than capable of tracking down ne'er-do-wells of all stripes are now hard at work identifying a woman who has come to be known as Phillies Karen.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bMFBBznzw6o?si=w8sApQGrTEyDJsqY