I agree, there are risks around us everywhere. There are only so many "reasonable measures" a person/company/place can do.

I hope the baby is ok and will be back for another Bulls game!

Worst Case Scenario

The picnic area near left field is sheltered and based on the distance the ball likely wasn't coming as fast as it could have been. Lets be thankful of that! Keeping a baby at home and sheltered is not the answer. A pitcher recently got plugged in the head from a line drive...does it happen often, NO! But when it does happen everyone questions why there weren't more precautions put into place. Put it like this, if we protected everyone from everything that could POTENTIALLY happen. We'd all be in plastic bubbles.

Once, when I was about 8, my family moved up north for one winter. We bought a house that was on a pretty huge pond in the neighborhood, and as it does up there, it froze hard over in the winter.

Some of my friends were ice skating on that pond one day and I begged my father to let me go out and join them.

"No sir," he said in a serious voice that meant business, "the ice is too thin. You could get killed out there."

"Dad," I pleaded, "the other kids are out there!"

"Doesn't matter," Dad said. "You're my son and just because your Dad's fathers aren't smart enough to keep their sons off of thin ice doesn't mean you're going."

That was the end of that. About an hour later, the ice collaped about ten feet from shore and a kid win in to the chest. I imagine it isn't easy to swim in ice skates, so he stood there until my Dad and some of the other fathers got a rope to him and drug him in. The kid spent the night in the hospital from exposure.

Needless to say, I learned a lesson.

Blame, blame, blame, blame. Why is blaming someone so important??