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The joy Florida Marlins rookie Chris Coghlan felt after hitting his first major league home run was tempered slightly by the hardball negotiations he went through to reclaim the souvenir.
Coghlan's home run was caught Wednesday night by a Milwaukee Brewers fan who refers to himself as "The Happy Youngster" and claims on his blog to have caught nearly 50 homers.
And while Coghlan said the fan was willing to give the ball back, the man's original asking price was a lot higher than the Marlins rookie outfielder anticipated.
"He wasn't the most polite or respectful guy about the whole process," Coghlan said Thursday. "He told me he goes around a lot and catches these balls and holds them for ransom — even though he doesn't say that he does, it seems that way."
But the fan, Nick Yohanek, insisted Coghlan could have been more respectful to him.
"I explained that ballhawking is my hobby and that what I was asking in return was fair," Yohanek said Thursday, in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "I told him I make $50,000 a year working in law enforcement and that I didn't feel like I was asking for too much. He responded, 'Good for you.' Real classy. Way to respect law enforcement. Way to respect a fan."
Players who achieve personal milestones often want to keep the ball as a souvenir, and in all but the most high-profile cases — such as a record-setting home run ball that might fetch big money at an auction — it has become standard practice for the player to give the fan who caught it a souvenir such as a signed bat in return.
Coghlan said he gave the fan a signed bat and took a photo with him after Wednesday's game. As Coghlan discovered, that only seemed like a starting point for further negotiations.
"Then he wanted other things that I didn't think (were) fair," Coghlan said.
Coghlan said the fan also asked for tickets to one of the Marlins' upcoming games against the New York Yankees, along with a ball and signed bat from Coghlan's more famous Marlins teammate, Hanley Ramirez.
"I was trying to be as nice and respectful as I could," Coghlan said. "But I told him he could only get one."
Yohanek, who says he has caught a total of 49 home runs, offered a significantly different version of the episode.
Yohanek said his negotiations for the ball began with several members of the Marlins' staff — and after his request for a Ramirez bat was turned down, he requested tickets not for the Yankees series, but for a Brewers-Marlins series at Florida in June.
"I had wanted to attend this series anyway," Yohanek said. "Considering (Marlins) attendance is barely over 15,000 nightly, I didn't feel like this was too much to ask."
Yohanek said he eventually handed over the ball for the promise of tickets to the Brewers-Marlins series, a bat with the inscription "To Nick, thanks for catching my 1st home run," and a photo with Coghlan.
"While posing for the photo, he said, 'You gonna give me the ball, man, or what?'" Yohanek said. "After he was given the home run ball, he stormed off without a word. Only to return and say, 'Why y'all gotta hold my ball for ransom?' I hold balls for ransom? Those are Chris Coghlan's words, not mine."
 

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Some people really take themselves Way Too Seriously. This "ballhawk" seems to be one such dork
 

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A 30-minute conversation with a pro baseball player is worth far more than what he was asking for

Why would the player even want a ball that now could only bring ugly memories of this dickhead?
 

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A 30-minute conversation with a pro baseball player is worth far more than what he was asking for

That's one man's opinion. I have had countless conversations with countless pro athletes from every sport. I have never walked away feeling as though the conversations were "priceless." I'm not totally backing what this guy did, depending on how he approached the ball player, etc (two sides to every story), but I also do not hold these ball players on some high pedestal....they're human, just like you and me....and in many cases, they are full of egos.
 

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I agree. But atleast this guy know his 1st homerun ball wasn't worth much and he also knows he has no pull with Hanley to get a bat to get his ball.LOL


That's one man's opinion. I have had countless conversations with countless pro athletes from every sport. I have never walked away feeling as though the conversations were "priceless." I'm not totally backing what this guy did, depending on how he approached the ball player, etc (two sides to every story), but I also do not hold these ball players on some high pedestal....they're human, just like you and me....and in many cases, they are full of egos.
 

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I have had countless conversations with countless pro athletes from every sport. I have never walked away feeling as though the conversations were "priceless."

How much are a few scribbles from some pro athlete worth?

Wanting to walk away from an interaction feeling good rather than being angry putting is not putting someone on a pedestal

The guy should have said what he wanted, the player should have either accepted it or declined and both should have moved on. For that to fail makes them both seem like dicks
 

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How much are a few scribbles from some pro athlete worth?

Wanting to walk away from an interaction feeling good rather than being angry putting is not putting someone on a pedestal

The guy should have said what he wanted, the player should have either accepted it or declined and both should have moved on. For that to fail makes them both seem like dicks

Nobody wants to come out and admit what this really is,,,

and that is ALL PROFESSIONAL SPORTS have made this what it is! all about money! RediculousTicket prices to outrageous parking fees, (I remember when it used to be free to park. lol.)

when you make yourself all about TAKING from the fans, well, I dont begrudge a fan from TAKING from them,

a signed ball and a photo? lolol fukYOU, I want a GAME used GLOVE and a signed bat!

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Capitalism at it's finest... How hard would it have been for Coghlan to get a bat and ball from Hanley... The dude's request didn't seem to be all that unreasonable to me... It's not like these players are paying for their own gear anyway... Jeez...
 

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Just take another ball, put it on your mantel, and tell everyone it's the one you hit out.
 

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Capitalism at it's finest... How hard would it have been for Coghlan to get a bat and ball from Hanley... The dude's request didn't seem to be all that unreasonable to me... It's not like these players are paying for their own gear anyway... Jeez...

Yeah, but this fan is the type of fan that if he got a ball and bat signed by HanRam, he'd sell it to the highest bidder on EBAY.
 

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The guy that caught the ball is in law enforcement and has a chip on his shoulder and a sense of "entitlement". What a surprise.
 

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WTF, the guy didn't ask for too much

another signed bat and tickets to three games?

give it to him and move on
 

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Everyone has a different agenda..Capitalism cant be argued with in this country..You want something thats in the public domain, you need to put up or shut up..isnt that the American way??
 

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Just take another ball, put it on your mantel, and tell everyone it's the one you hit out.

Sometimes the seemingly Tough Questions have really Simple Answers, eh?
 

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Back in my 20s and early 30s whenever I went to Fenway I would buy an official MLB baseball from the souvenir stands underneath the seats and scuff it up a little and rub a little dirt on it once I got it home and give it to a kid in the neighborhood and tell him it was a foul off the bat of one of the star Red Sox players.

I know it was a little sneaky but the look on the kids face was priceleess and was well worth the 4 or 5 bucks the balls cost at the suvenir stands at the ballpark. The truth is of all the ballgames I have been to in my life I have never caught a ball in the stands fair or foul.


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The only douchebag here is the baseball player himself.

You want your 1st home run ball so badly? Well fuck you, give me $10,000 or go fuck yourself. Like hell would I have settled for a signed bat from a douche.
 

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Think about this by the numbers.

How much is that ball worth in dollars? Probably close to zero dollars.

The bat from Ramirez and the tickets could probably be worth hundreds of dollars.

They could have easily exchanged the ball, which had a lot of sentimental value for the rookie, for a signed bat and a conversation. The signed bat is way cooler and would end up being worth a lot more money than the ball should the kid get good.

That way everyone can at least have something they want of sentimental value and every is happy. Fair trade.
 

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