Zack Hample, arrogant douchebag to an arrogant douchebag.

Who the fuck is Zack Hample?

He's a low class dumbass dirtbag douchebag who haunts baseball stadiums and bothers players for memorabilia. He races all over the stadium during batting practice to retrieve and keep foul balls. He then tries to figure out where in the stands he should sit in case of a home run.

He's in his 30's and has the mind of a 6 year-old. A very bratty 6 year-old.

So, to the dismay of Alex Rodriguez, and even Alex haters, Hample caught Alex's home run, which also happened to be hit #3,000.

Less than 30 players have gotten 3,000 hits. The ball would be worth good money to anyone. And that's made Hample the Pimple one smug "celebrity."

Gosh, he TWEETED about it, and bragged that he was going to hold up Alex, the Yankees, or any collector for a LOT of money.

I mention this trivia because it's just another example of how shitty the Generation X and Milennials are. They've been taught to be thoughtless, greedy and obnoxious.

Parents do not inhibit children anymore. They go the other way, even. How often do you see brats getting rewarded for tantrums? "Nobody's gonna take advantage of MY spawn," the parents seem to be saying. So these brats are surly to old people, manner-less to strangers, and arrogant to each other. "What's in it for ME?" is their mantra.

That's a bit different from how kids were raised in the hippie late 60's and earlier, when there were actual newspaper columns such as "Miss Manners" and "Dear Abby."

Today, it's the exception who catches a home run and gives it back to the player. If the player (who makes millions) wants to give the fan a check, or a bunch of signed memorabilia, fine. It's not a fucking business. This guy is already, to use an expression, talking hardball.

In the end, I'd tell Alex Rodriguez to tell Hample, "shove it up your ass." After all, it's JUST a ball. One ball looks like another. There's nothing MAGICAL about it. This superstitious attachment to bats and balls and gloves and autographs is ridiculous.

Rodriguez, for out-of-towners, is not the likable player Derek Jeter was. More like Roger Maris to Mickey Mantle, Alex doesn't have the look of a hero. For a long time he also didn't have the skills to even talk to reporters without coming off like a jerk. He'd bring his groupies to the games and had no class. He also took steroids, got caught, and was suspended from baseball for a year. Hample the Pimple keeping the baseball hit by Magic Alex is not upsetting fans too much, except on principle.

Baseball has traditions. One of 'em is that if the opposite team's player hits a home run, you don't keep the ball as a souvenir, you contemptuously throw it back on the field, to the cheers of everyone around you. AND, if it's your team, and it's an important home run, you offer the ball back to the player.

But..."whatever happened to class?"