Kickin' It With Jon Ryan 03-07-25

Sure, Seahawks legend Jon Ryan is known for playing football....but he's also REALLY passionate about baseball. On today's episode of Kickin' It With Jon Ryan, he ranted, raved and was VERY passionate about.....the etiquette involved in catching foul balls at games. Should you give it to one of the many random kids always looking for handouts? Listen to this clip to hear Jon's answer!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One oh, huge point five hazy. Okay, time for kicking
it with John Ryan, Seahawk legend, John Ryan, what's on
your mind this week?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm still at spring training in Phoenix. I've been to
a lot of games over the last two weeks, and
I continue to see something that bothers me a lot.
Every time a foul ball goes into the crowd, what
does everyone yell? Give it to a kid? Give it
to a kid. Well, I want to start a movement
to normalize grown adults keeping foul balls. Here's what happens.
You give the ball to a kid, he or cee

(00:32):
goes home, plays test it for four or five minutes,
all walls out of the deck, forever forgotten. I get
a foul ball, I take it home, I put it
on my mantle, and every single one of my friends
that comes through for the next twenty years has to
hear the story about how I caught that ball. Just
last year, I was at a minor league game in Louisville.
I caught three foul balls. A little kid comes up
and he says, can I have that ball? I said, absolutely, God,

(00:54):
you've been here twelve seconds ago and caught it for yourself.
This might surprise some listeners, but I don't actually have
any kids on my own. So next time you catch
a ball and a kid comes up to you and
asks for that ball, tell them John Ryan told me
to tell you to bugger off your little brat and
put the ball in your pocket where it belongs. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
That was kicking it with John Ryan.