Sports Radio Guy Kent Sterling Tweets Offensive Comment About Cubs Extending Wrigley Field Netting

The Chicago Cubs have opted for one of the most common-sense moves they could have possibly made this offseason, pledging to extend the protective netting around the playing area at Wrigley Field to reduce the likelihood of fans getting injured as a result of an errant foul ball.

Indianapolis-based sports talk radio host Kent Sterling, however, took the bold (and outrageous) step of disagreeing with the decision, throwing basic logic to the wind to crank out this truly astounding take about what the Cubs' move says about society.

A sampling of quotations from a blog post on Sterling's own website:

"That’s how our society has evolved – responsibility always lies elsewhere.  Nothing is our own fault anymore."

"[I]t seems personal responsibility is taking a holiday at Wrigley and other major league ballparks."

"The point is that people need to accept responsibility for their own stupidity once in a while, or we will assume that nothing bad is our own fault."

Too stupid or too sluggish, you say? So, fans should be expected to dodge 110 MPH rockets when they're in their seats for three-plus hours, including children? What a ridiculous take, and an offensive one at that.

Considering the fact that a two-year-old girl was struck by a foul ball off the bat of Cubs outfielder Albert Almora and suffered permanent brain damage as a result, this opinion comes off not only as misguided, but flat-out sickening. To frame this as some kind of personal responsibility issue -- which suggests that those who get hit by errant balls and/or their legal guardians somehow deserved it -- is patently absurd.

Twitter has already gone to work and started ratioing Sterling, and it's hard to argue against that. Declaring yourself a proponent of a dynamic that leaves toddlers or even younger kids at risk of suffering life-altering brain injuries instead of one that reduces or eliminated that possibility is quite the hill to die on.