Update: Phillies Karen baseball offer from BlowoutCards.com

It was the moment seen around the world.

The Saga Of Phillies Karen & The Home Run Ball was just one week ago tonight down in Miami and if you don't know the tale here's a quick recap. A Harrison Bader home run went into the stands and put a run on the board for the Philadelphia Phillies as part of a rout of the Marlins. It bounced around on the concrete and ended up in the hands of fan Drew Feltwell, who ran down the row of seats below her to retrieve it and then ran back to his seat, proudly popping the ball into the glove of his 10-year-old son, Lincoln ... until there was a showdown.

"She definitely scurried on over," Feltwell told NBC10 Philadelphia. "And as she reached for my arm, she just yelled in my ear, 'That's my ball.' Like super loud. I jumped out of my skin."

"A lot, a lot of eyes on us by that time. And the ball was already in his glove and she just wouldn't stop. And I mean, I'm literally leaning back as she's in my face, yelling and yelling and yelling. And I pretty much just wanted her to go away. And because I had a fork in the road, either do something I was probably going to regret or be a dad and show him how to de-escalate the situation. So that's where I went."

The family ended up with gifts from both teams after the in-game negative attention -- after all, it was all caught on live TV and filmed from in the stands -- and they met Bader after the game where the kid ended up with one of his signed Victus Sports game-model bats and a moment better than just a baseball leading up to his birthday, which is why they were at the game. They ended up on Good Morning America talking about it all while her identity remains a mystery despite all kinds of angsty and, well, uncouth Internet reactions that are as abrasive as that moment. (Feltwell has asked the public to stop all that. We concur.)

Since then, our "firm and official" offer of $5,000 for the ball  -- as long as it's signed and inscribed "I'm sorry" -- that we dropped a day later has been around the world, too.

It's been covered by -- take a breath -- The New York Times, The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, Yahoo, Yahoo Sports, The Sporting News, cllct, The Philadelphia Inquirer, MSN, National Post, Fox News, FOX 29 Philadelphia, Cleveland.com, Hindustan Times, NJ.com, Times of India, The Independent (UK), Daily Mail (UK), New York Post, 104.5 WOKV, The Economic Times, Patch, Toronto Sun, The Tab, The Mirror U.S., Daily Express U.S., FanBuzz, BroBible, Whiskey Riff, TotallyProSports, EssentiallySports, Bounding Into Sports, VT, Breitbart, Bored Panda, Sportsnaut, Hypefresh Magazine, Bounding Into Sports, BVM Sports, inkl, NewsBreak, Finurah, EssentiallySports, Dexerto and we're sure even more than that based on the social media push-around we've seen. Some of it's been good, some of it's been bad, some of it's been confusing, some of them have been proud to see it.

We know he should have the ball.

And, now ... why are we here once again?

After a week of the offer being out there, we are truly disappointed that the ball isn't sitting on a shelf in the kid's room. We are truly disappointed that she didn't respond. We feel it's fair and figured that it would make a big-time baseball bummer a bit more positive. Despite all that waiting and all that extra attention, we have not had contact with the yet-to-be-identified Phillies fanatic. That said, and after some intensive deliberations among the team at BlowoutCards.com, we've decided to double our offer for the baseball -- only if it's signed and inscribed "I'm very sorry" -- to $10,000.

Yep, $10,000. (We added that very part this time around. Extra cash, extra emphasis ... extra special?)

Harrison Bader meets the Feltwell family to give Lincoln a signed bat. (@Phillies photo)

Why? We truly feel that this now infamous but quirky piece of baseball history is one that the Feltwell family -- remember, it wasn't just a father and a son at the game to witness it all or meet the player afterward -- fits with best. They are the team that will remember and treasure it fondly alongside his Bader bat far more anybody else could ever do. (Perhaps even Karen at this point, given all of the attention and angst. We saw some of that while she was still at the ballpark.)

Sure, cllct's Darren Rovell might think this "meaningless September game" home run ball -- No. 86 in Bader's career by the way -- "would have been $125 tops." We disagree. (Besides, the Phillies sell gamers to the public and the team's latest list prices were $125 for Bader singles and $350 for one of his triples.) This ball has been talked about worldwide and it has to be No. 1 atop that list of 86. It might be the most-remembered homer of his career ... and he's having a career year for a first-place team primed for the postseason. (And $10K could buy a bunch of baseballs from the team, too.) Just saying.

Sure, it's also a ball that might have its 15 minutes of fame until something else from MLB bounces its way around the world on the Internet, but for the Feltwells it will be a forever moment ... their moment. We want that ball to be a positive addition to their collection, their personal Cooperstown, for all time. No baggage, no negativity and, seriously, no pitchforks. This baseball needs to be the centerpiece of his collecting universe in the here, in the now ... and forever.

This is our best and final offer and hope we can get it done. The offer stands and expires on Sept. 30. If we can't get it done, WE ARE SORRY. We tried.

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