The ticketholder comes back and runs into resistance from the squatters.
"The group was upset we returned and one of them asked, 'Where did you go?'... Where did we go? Are you kidding me?!"
July 24, 2011
"Seat bullying" at the Brewers' Miller Park.
Can you believe that there are people who move from the seats they paid for to seats they didn't pay for and fight to keep those seats when the real ticket-holders show up?
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Ushers. That is why ballparks pay ushers. You hand your valid ticket to the usher and they deal with it.
Not enough staff!
Unless you've provided a seat for your own bodyguard. Or two. The "art" of reclaiming what's yours is gonna be difficult.
On the other hand? You can avoid it all. Go to a diner with a big screen TV ... or plasma screen. Sit and eat. And, watch. To your heart's content.
Then, you don't have to fight your way out of the parking lot, either.
What Michael said. What's nice about the ballpark is that they've hired people specifically to deal with the assholes.
Well, apparently in Milwaukee you have to fight the squatters yourself.
People today are sick. There's just no other word for it:
They're sick.
Is this what they mean by Wisconsin Nice?
I never heard of this in Gotham or Philadelphia.
WV "noode" How you say unclothed in some parts of the country.
Yes, the stadiums have ushers. There are not enough of them. I am tired of people with attitude. What part of YOU didnt buy that seat don't YOU understand? It is the entitled mentality of many in this country that permeates everyday life.
Just a passing thought, but I would guess the ballpark is a 'no carry' zone otherwise folks would be more polite...
wv: proyak
Why, yes, I am. Especially fond of the butter...
You mean they weren't immediately drenched with beer, beaten and left for dead?
You people outside L.A. are living in a utopia.
You can tell if the seat-squatter is a member of SEIU if, in addition to telling you that he's got a right to your seat, he also demands that you buy him a beer and a 'brat.
At the Cell there are ushers everywhere and they look at your tickets each time you enter your section, now if they could just teach Adam Dunn to hit.
If Fonzie taught us anything, it's that Milwaukee has plenty of uncool people.
I have been to Miller Park lots of times, and have never had this happen, nor do I know of anyone that has had this happen. The story has one guy making the claim. Who goes to a game leaves to "eat lunch, shop and explore" for three innings. Who does that? GO to the fucking mall. Sheesh.
Go to the game. It's a great place to watch baseball, and the Brewer's are actually are worth watching. If you must vacate your seat do so without worry.
Misplaced anger. You people should be more concerned about Prince Fielder's slump. There won't be any seat issues to fight over pretty soon.
This happened to me occasionally at rock concerts with assigned seating. I never had any trouble, though, with getting people to leave my seat once I showed them my ticket. Some left with a rueful look on their face, because clearly they knew they'd taken seats that didn't belong to them, and others just didn't know how to read the seat numbers on their ticket and were simply lost. It also probably helped that at most of the venues they had rock concerts at in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale that I went to in the 80s and 90s the ushers were no-nonsense old ladies. You didn't want to mess with the old ladies of South Florida.
This doesn't happen at Yankee Stadium since most people know better and don't want to get a kick in the face.
And it is not a problem at Citifield as there are plenty of empty seats so you can always trade up.
Let's call it "Seat stealing". "Bullying" is fast becoming an overused phrase.
Lots of games at Fenway, and I've never heard of a squatter not giving up a seat.
(Repercussions at Fenway may include random pizza, however: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapNcP_7PPo.)
At Coors Field in Denver they use retirees as ushers. It's a great deal for everyone. They're almost too strict, though. They won't let you enter a section to get a seat until there's a break in the action.
"Let's call it "Seat stealing". "Bullying" is fast becoming an overused phrase."
The bullying refers to their fighting to stay where they are and posing as entitled, trying to make the real ticketholders feel like they are the ones upsetting the social order.
The more common practice of trying to get away with taking an empty seat that's not yours is pretty mundane.
I'm trying to highlight the escalation that has apparently occurred in Wisconsin.
In the Capitol rotunda, during the protests, the chant was: "Whose house? OUR house!"
I'm thinking there is a strange new attitude here in Wisconsin.
"Whose seats? OUR seats!"
Been to Fenway, Foxboro and the Garden multiple times and never seen that either. I think it falls into the universally understood "this will get my ass kicked immediately and nobody will be on my side" category that we all learn about in grade school.
The seat poachers I have seen near my seats at Turner Field in Atlanta are brazen. They don't contest the seats when the owners arrive, they simply push down a few. I always go take a piss and rat them out to the ushers who make them move.
I have a very rich friend who enjoys hockey and likes very much the seats he and his wife have seasonally. But he has been annoyed by some of the people who have seats around him so over the years he has acquired season tickets to those seats a well. He now has four seats in front, one on each side and four behind him, 12 season tickets in all to ensure his enjoyment. He is tight with the ushers who are constantly having to move people out of his seats.
"Where did you go?"
None of your business.
Now get out of my seat, asshole.
Never had this problem at Comerica Park in Detroit. People just say, "sorry, thought you left", and they clear out.
People would move to better seats all the time at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. It would annoy the devil out of me but as long as they were well behaved I wouldn't rat them out. Thing about season tickets is that you do get to know who belongs to the seats around you.
The bullying refers to their fighting to stay where they are and posing as entitled, trying to make the real ticketholders feel like they are the ones upsetting the social order.
Point made, but the "bullying" in "seat bullying" brings to my mind someone being bullied because of the kind of seats they have.
"Your seats are so gay"
"I'd kill myself if I had seats as bad as yours"
Bully bully bully.
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