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Phil Rosenthal: Taking a ball from a little kid is a bad look, but it looks like social media got it wrong

Might the social media world, incensed that an adult fan snagged a baseball obviously thrown to a little kid in the Wrigley Field crowd at Sunday's Cubs-Cardinals game, have gotten it wrong?

Chuck Mycoff says it absolutely did.

"The whole world is calling this guy the most evil guy in the world for being a ball thief," said Mycoff, who says he's the bystander (or by-sitter) with the folded arms and blue shirt next to the fan in question who grabbed the ball and handed it

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