I've noticed the same thing as a season ticket holder for our minor league team. Unfortunately, we seem to have developed a mentality where kids expect to receive a ball, so I regularly get kids at the end of my aisle looking for a handout from the players and coaches, standing there until the ushers shoo them away. It's lucky that we have the nets up now because otherwise we would have two or three fans a game requiring medical attention because they aren't watching the game and would be hit by foul balls or the occasional bat.
It is the same in Cleveland. It’s not that fans simply are unaware of how they are negatively impacting the experience for others. Most of them simply don’t care.
This is partly - but certainly not entirely - the fault of Major League Baseball, which lately has been on a mission to appeal to an audience of non-fans who consider a ballgame just another social event to mill around at.
They roll in around the second or third inning, leave by the eighth, and bounce up and down in between. To appease them, MLB has instituted ridiculous rules to “speed up the game.”
What a surprise. Another elitist rant from and elitist dope. This is what galls me the most: you and your privileged intelligencia cloak yourselves in the facade of the common folk, while simultaneously chafe anytime the common folk intrude on your safe space.
Thanks for educating me, Joe, that wanting people not to rudely block other people's views is an elitist rant of the privileged intelligentsia cloaked in the facade of the common folk. Always fun to hear from you!!!
I've noticed the same thing as a season ticket holder for our minor league team. Unfortunately, we seem to have developed a mentality where kids expect to receive a ball, so I regularly get kids at the end of my aisle looking for a handout from the players and coaches, standing there until the ushers shoo them away. It's lucky that we have the nets up now because otherwise we would have two or three fans a game requiring medical attention because they aren't watching the game and would be hit by foul balls or the occasional bat.
It is the same in Cleveland. It’s not that fans simply are unaware of how they are negatively impacting the experience for others. Most of them simply don’t care.
This is partly - but certainly not entirely - the fault of Major League Baseball, which lately has been on a mission to appeal to an audience of non-fans who consider a ballgame just another social event to mill around at.
They roll in around the second or third inning, leave by the eighth, and bounce up and down in between. To appease them, MLB has instituted ridiculous rules to “speed up the game.”
What a surprise. Another elitist rant from and elitist dope. This is what galls me the most: you and your privileged intelligencia cloak yourselves in the facade of the common folk, while simultaneously chafe anytime the common folk intrude on your safe space.
Go back to LA.
Thanks for educating me, Joe, that wanting people not to rudely block other people's views is an elitist rant of the privileged intelligentsia cloaked in the facade of the common folk. Always fun to hear from you!!!