The Mets are a team of sublime contradictions: they currently have the best home record in the league (22-9), but they also have the largest decline in home field attendance. And worst of all, it turns out the people who are coming to the games are all greedy hooligans hell bent on stealing foul balls from children!
During yesterday's victory against the Marlins, 10-year-old Ethan Edelman, who was seated behind the photographers' well on the third base line, had his glove up to catch a foul ball that was tossed to the crowd by David Wright. As you can see in the video below the jump, it was instead snatched by adult Mike Terry, to Edelman's utter bewilderment. Terry handed the ball to his own child, 3-year-old Mackey, but the assembled masses demanded blood: "I didn't realize there was a little boy behind me. I gave it to my little guy, and all [of a] sudden the whole crowd was booing me. I don't think they realized that I gave it to [my] kid," Terry said.
Even after umpire Mike Winters tossed another ball to Edelman, the crowd booed and catcalled until Terry took the ball he intercepted and gave it back to the youngster. Later on, David Wright intervened and got new balls for everybody involved. Despite the dark overtones of the story, the News goes out of its way to try to mask the pain and suffering that man's lust for greed incurred:
"So I think everybody ... went home happy," Wright said.
Ethan's family agreed.
"It was a happy ending," said Edelman's aunt Karen Ferreira.
"Everyone's happy now."
