Watch the vid closely and you will see that the man FULLY had the ball in his hand. He had shoved his hand with the ball between his legs, the kid never once had the ball or any part of the ball.
The guy who owns this video should get a lawyer and keep the rights. IMO it's worth more than the ball.
Like turn it into an NFT and make everyone pay you 100 Ethereum to reference it. Make both legal teams representing the black shirt guy and Miami jersey boy, respectively, pay you for access.
What was the call on the field? I see no compelling evidence to reverse it.
That said, the kid looks lazy, he’s likely never created a job in his life nor paid income taxes, and he’s probably a Kamala voter with some student loans for his psychology degree, so they should mandate he be given the ball for inclusion and equity’s sake.
Any society that places massive value on such an item, a ball used in a sports game, let alone a society that sees adults physically fighting it... is a joke.
So how do you feel about art? People pay a lot more for that in a lot of cases. Is a Monet (whose paintings I do like) really offer anything more in terms of enjoyment than a ball in a case that has special meaning for the owner? Why can't a baseball be "art"? I have seen stuff passed off as art that looks ridiculous to me, but hey people pay millions for Jackson Pollack's stuff that looks like the finger paintings my kids did in pre-school.
You are proving my point.
When we buy art, we are paying for an actual one-of-a-kind creation, the achievement itself.
Reasonable people can argue over the quality of a piece of art: a painting, the first-draft typewritten manuscript of a great novel, etc, but collectors are paying for an actual creation, not the staple gun than attached the artist's canvas to the frame, or the paperclips the author used.
Likewise, a baseball is not the achievement, nor is it uniquely integral to it as a paintbrush would be. Paying hundreds or even thousands for great seats to see Shohei Ohtani play makes plenty of sense. Paying a great deal more than that for the bat he used makes sense, and would be liking paying for one of Jackson Pollock's brushes (to use your example). Pollock chose he brushes (and other tools) to create his art. Ohtani doesn't select the balls he swings at.
Paying for one of dozens of identical balls used in the game, the one that was arbitrarily in the line-up for this particular hit, is truly the stuff of true idiots in a society increasingly made up of them.