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A drama that unfolds on Twitter isn't always what it seems. At Sunday's game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, a foul ball down the right field line was picked up by one of the ball boys and tossed to a young child in the front row. SEE ALSO: Someone please stop these copycat emoji Twitter accounts Except the kid, being pretty young, dropped the ball which then rolled under his seat. It was then an older fan picked up the ball and gave the ball back to the kid celebrated that he had gotten a foul ball.  Cue the Twitter outrage machine. Plenty of fans tweeted their anger, hoping there was justice for the young fan who seemed to have had a chance at a foul ball ripped away from him.  Pretty low to take a ball from a KID. It was meant for the kid and he would have told stories to all his friend. The guy and whatever he gave it to. . . . HOW can anyone be happy with themselves for doing that. - Lostways27 (@Lostways27) July 22, 2018 Speechless......he steals candy from babies too? - GLrebirth (@GLrebirth) July 22, 2018 The Cubs heard the roar on Twitter loud and clear and made sure the little guy was rewarded with a ball signed by the Cubs' All-Star infielder Javy Baez.  A @javy23baez signed ball should take care of it. #EverybodyIn pic.twitter.com/4YzUlG8qfN - Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 22, 2018 But, by Sunday night, there was a twist: while Twitter was quick to demonize the dude in the shades, it seems he wasn't that bad of a guy at all.  Sure, the optics in the video looked damning, but David Kaplan, a host on NBC Sports Chicago noted that, before the incident that sparked the outrage, the same man had helped that same kid get a foul ball.  I spoke with people from the Cubs. The man who grabbed the ball on the widely seen video had actually already helped the little boy get a ball earlier. The young man has a game used ball and a Javy Baez ball. All is well. Guy is A-OK so let it go people. - David Kaplan (@thekapman) July 23, 2018 It was a claim backed by others who were sitting nearby, flagged by the Sporting News .  The other ball the kid has was the one the same guy caught and gave him before this. I was sitting next to him. - Chuck Mycoff (@cmycoff2) July 22, 2018 I was sitting the next to the boy and the same fan helped him snag a ball a few innings before this. - Jeff Rose, CFP® (@jjeffrose) July 23, 2018 But no good deed goes unpunished and so the debate still swirls online as to who was right, who was wrong, and what it all means. Does that make it okay he took the second ball intended for the kid? Is this a life lesson for the kid to learn?  At least we have eternity to argue in circles about it on Twitter.

Representative Jason Spencer just made it way too easy for Sacha Baron Cohen. The Georgia politician’s episode of “Who Is America?” premiered on Sunday, and it is pretty easy to see why Spencer threatened to sue Showtime to stop his “training film” from airing. First, Baron Cohen’s character Captain Erran Morad, who is an anti-terror expert that definitely did not spend 13 years in Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, has Spencer try to convince a person wearing a burka that he is a Chinese tourist.

The doomed duck boat that sank in the middle of a storm on Thursday, killing 17, was raised from the depths of a Missouri lake Monday, as authorities hope to learn more about why the vessel foundered. During the retrieval efforts, which began around 9 a.m., divers connected the Ride the Ducks boat to a crane that dragged the vessel from its resting place 80-feet deep in Table Rock Lake. The boat will be taken to a secure location for officials to study it after the deadly incident, the Coast Guard said in an earlier news release. The boat, with 31 people aboard, sank Thursday evening after it left for a ride on the lake, located near the tourist town of Branson that was hit by a thunderstorm generating near-hurricane strength winds.

BOCA DEL RÍO, Mexico (AP) - It's almost as if Letty Stegall is there, back home in the United States, beside her daughter to prod her awake for school. When her husband goes to the grocery store, she fusses over the list with him. At the bar she helped run, she still gives regulars a warm welcome, and around the dinner table at night, she beams when she sees what her family managed to cook.

A woman who watched as a man shot and killed her boyfriend in a Florida parking lot, has claimed the shooter “wanted someone to be angry at”, after police said they would not be charging him with any crime as a result of the state’s controversial self defence laws. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri announced he did not intend to charge 47-year-old Michael Drejka, who is white, over the shooting death of 28-year-old Markeis McGlockton, who is black. Mr Drejka shot and killed Mr McGlockton last week in a parking area outside a convenience store in Clearwater, 25 miles west of Tampa.

Alexis Ohanian Sr. took his love for Serena Williams to new heights.

The Papa John's board of directors has adopted a limited-duration stockholder rights plan to prevent the company's founder, John Schnatter, from taking control of the company. Schnatter resigned as chairman of the board earlier this month after he admitted to using a racial slur on a conference call. The pizza chain Papa John's has adopted a so-called poison pill designed to prevent the company's founder, John Schnatter, from taking over the company.