my heart breaks for that poor kid and the family

Me and some friends are collecting donations around our town. He lived about an hour from me.

Rest in peace.

We at Lone Star Ball are attempting to set up something with the Rangers to help the family. We’ll have links and such on our page when everything is settled if any of you are interested in donating.

a son gets his father taken away.. forever.. at a baseball game.

This is such a tragedy. A man trying to enjoy a game with his boy, trying to get him a ball…and this. Ugh.

My prayers are with his family, and with Josh Hamilton, who probably feels devastated as well.

Devastating for that poor little kid and his family. Going to the game with your dad is supposed to be a wonderful memory.

Obviously someone falling there is rare, but once is already too many times. Add some netting, some fencing, something to catch a falling fan to prevent another tragedy like this.

And the A’s announcers obviously need to publicly apologize if they haven’t already.

feel bad for Hamilton after all he’s been through and Conor Jackson is a great kid who I watched in AZ.

Well, I’m not going to sleep tonight….

How can something like this happen? Its just so wrong.

Baseball stadiums are places are life, energy and excitement. What a terrible thing for the fans and the organization to deal with. But you got to just feel beyond terrible for the boy. I am sure the Rangers organization will do something for him and his family.

:’(

I should hate the Rangers. Hate their fans. Hate their players. But this is a tragic moment that hits so close to home, and we all have to remember at the end of the day, we all are just baseball fans rooting for our team. So God bless you Shannon Stone. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Stone family, Ranger fans, and also Josh Hamilton. Good night.

whats even more pathetic is some peoples comments on youtube they have no heart whats so ever….and then the As commentators shouldnt laugh at that either

Several of the A’s relievers were waiting to get through the tunnel to get to the bullpen, and they were stopped there while the man was wheeled through.

“They had him on a stretcher and they were carrying him out, and he was saying stuff,” said A’s reliever Brad Ziegler, who was in tears after the team was informed of the man’s death. "He was saying, ‘Please check on my son. I was here with my son,’ and people were saying, ’We’ll check on your son, we’ll make sure he’s OK.’

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/07/SPUU1K7LAV.DTL#ixzz1RUOm2rAJ

My condolences to the man’s family, especially his poor son who had to watch. Also condolences to Rangers fans and the team, nothing this bad should ever happen at the ballpark.

Didn’t a fan fall from the upper deck in Arlington last year as well?

As a father, this breaks my heart. I pray that, as difficult as it is to fathom, somehow some good can come from this evil.

and when tragedies like this happen we can put aside our pride in our teams and feelings of animosity towards one another (no matter how unfounded) and come together to help heal wounds. My condolences to the family and friends, and all those affected by this tragedy.

     This boy lost his father tonight. Those of you who have lost your father’s in adulthood know your loss and pain were probably tempered by the many memories you had with him. This boy is probably far too young to understand or appreciate the times he has had with him. I pray he and his family have the support system in place to get them through this unspeakable tragedy.
     Those of you who never knew your fathers (myself included) might feel especially sensitive to what this young boy has witnessed, I know I do. I sometimes go to games and see fathers with their young children and wonder if my father and I would have done the same. It makes me smile to think we might have, yet it saddens me to know that we never had the chance to.
     All we can do is pray that someday, this young boy will grow up to appreciate the memories he had with his father, short though they were. Things like this aren’t supposed to happen. Things like this shouldn’t happen. Not at a baseball game, not anywhere.

So very sad.

The first thing I think about is that I hope the guy had some amazing friends who will step up and take care of this kid, give him strong role models, and take the place of his dad the best they can (I realize it will never be the same…). I’m willing to bet that, being a firefighter, he had those kinds of friends in his life. Sad day in baseball. Sucks.

I don’t know much about him but it sounds like he was a cool dad. Took his kid to ballgames, helped people when they were in trouble, etc. I wish I could have met him. I hope his family and friends remember him that way.

Enjoy yourself, love your family, love your friends, love people you don’t know, be happy.

Do it now.

…is how perfect that moment must have been. Father and son at a baseball game in July. Home team star tosses that ball up there, and for a moment, how could the world be any more right to that child, that father? For that one second, how is this not one of the greatest days of that child’s young life? And how proud is that dad, to see that ball coming, just out of reach? And then the whole world turns upside down.

Like other fathers here, I find this is just a haunting story to read about. Difficult to think about, impossible NOT to think about.

But especially his son. I too, lost my father at a very young age. And I know how difficult it can be, to lose a dad. The only thing I hope and pray for, is that at some point, this young boy, grows into a man, and can remember and cherish the good times with his father, however little the time spent together. I feel for you kiddo. Just typing this has got me thinking about my dad.