We were just about a week removed from the death of a fan at the Ballpark in Arlington, and we almost were revisiting the story again last night. Keith Carmickle and his friends were at the Home Run Derby last night catching balls. They had already caught three when Keith went for a fourth. As he went for the fourth, he fell over the ledge and faced a 20 foot fall into the pool area. If it wasn’t for his brother and friends, who grabbed his legs and pulled him back up, Keith may have been in serious danger of losing his life.

“He tried to catch it, I grabbed his legs and his brother grabbed his arms,” said Nelson, who, along with Kraig Carmickle, is from Chandler. “So when he went over the ledge, we pulled him back. He wasn’t going down, I was holding on.”

The worst part is the guy was pretty nonchalant about the whole deal…

“I thought: I’ve lived a good life,” Carmickle said about dangling.

If I was leaning over the edge I’d be thinking you f%cking idiot you’re going to die trying to go for a pointless baseball at a home run derby. This situation is something that needs attention, fans need to be safer. You’d be surprised at how many falls like this take place during sporting events. Let the lessons be learned from the past.