Originally posted by Kirby
It's a matter of he said, she said. I hold to my belief that he did not intentionally knock the boy out of the way. This is a much different camera angle and, yes, it looks like he fell all over the boy. But from other angles, you can clearly see that he didn't.
Granted, jumping over the seats and throwing himself down to the ground to get the ball was not the right thing to do. In doing so, he ran into a little boy twice. If there were no little boy involved, no one would be saying a thing. I do not think that he would have intentionally hurt the boy and probably wasn't even thinking about anything but the foul ball. He made a bad judgment call and would probably do things different now if he could.
As far as making excuses and justifying the man's actions, I wasn't. But if you want to think that, go ahead. No skin off my nose.