Comments on: The Unwritten Rules When Attending Ball Games

By: Petey Pete

Petey Pete — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:20:09 +0000

Bingo. You got it. It’s the friggin wave. It drives me absolutely nuts. Nothing is as annoying or distracting, or disconnected from the game of baseball as the wave. There is no place for the wave in baseball, not even the minor leagues.

By: Anakin Corleone

Anakin Corleone — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:12:29 +0000

Don’t wear a jersey with your name on it unless you are willing to take the heckling. My friends and I went to a game a few years ago (where, admittedly, we had a little too much to drink) and a teenager with his name on the jersey was sitting a few rows in front of us. It didn’t help that the teenager was acting a bit cocky and even his friends were telling him to tone it down. However, the Mets were losing badly and when Jerry Manuel came out to make a pitching change, we started yelling, “Put {name withheld} into the game!” This led to other people in our section doing the same. The cocky kid was a good sport about it but most people aren’t.

By: Hoegy

Hoegy — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:27:50 +0000

Don’t loudly pretend to be an expert of the game and blab untruths and idiocy. ANNOYING!
Don’t pick arbitrary times to stand up and look around or at the game…WTF?
If you arrive late wait for a break in the action to take your seats. Can I get you something for the holidays…like a watch?
Give up the foul ball to a kid for heaven’s sake you do not collect them.
Enjoy fellow fans and the game together.
Don’tgive fans of the opposing team heck. Looks real dumb if the Mets lose and if they win acknowledge the other team fans in a smug way good enough. Nice try.
Embrace youth at the game, make them fans forever, theysimply cannot be annoying, running around, hot dog eating, laughing, having a blast is what you want fans of the future.
Don’t forget that you were once a kid at a ball game. HAVE A GREAT TIME!

By: Dan Valis

Dan Valis — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:33:46 +0000

people only do the wave when the game is no longer interesting, too bad that happens fairly often at Citi Field

By: Mitch Petanick

Mitch Petanick — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:11:38 +0000

Agree…big fan of the 80s throwback jerseys

By: USMF

USMF — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:08:51 +0000

No I don’t like that either…I’m not a big jersey guy anyways…I only have a Santana one that was a birthday present. It’s getting hard the way turnover is now a days…who has a Reyes Jersey? What are the odds that your Wright Jersey is going to suck to have after next year?

I say, if you buy a jersey, it has to be of an old school player like Mex, Cone, Carter, Seaver, Straw and such…

By: Mikey

Mikey — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:06:46 +0000

That’s my biggest one. NEVER do the wave. Awful.

By: Mitch Petanick

Mitch Petanick — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:04:14 +0000

How about a jersey with your own name on the back? I was never a fan of that…what about you guys?

By: USMF

USMF — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:00:27 +0000

That’s getting hard to do for me…maybe if I were a Yankme fan, I’d be OK…but other that RAD, there is no one I’d want on my jersey that is older than me.

By: USMF

USMF — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:58:12 +0000

Yeah, if you’re gonna get drunk and act like an ass, make sure kids aren’t around you. They really need to separate the sections…have family sections and drunken fool sections. that way everyone is happy. Keep family’s on the home side of the field and drunken fools on the visitors side.

I did bring my glove to a game once when I was in my late 20′s, but to my defense, we had my one year old baby girl with us and I needed to keep her safe…i didn’t care that I looked like a tool.

#1 rule, if you’re an adult, if you catch a foul ball, don’t keep it…give it to the nearest kid to you. and if you catch one…don’t act like you made a WS winning catch…it’s a foul ball, not a big deal.

Also, if you are going to sit near the dug out area, watch the game…I’ve heard of plenty of horror stories of people getting hit badly with foul balls because they weren’t paying attention.

I never understood the noise makers or the fighting…if you need to maker noise…yell, scream, clap your hands, stomp your feet or bang on the seats (assuming that no one is sitting in them) But to be ringing a cowbell or what ever else you got when nothing is going on, you just look stupid.

The fighting is worse…why risk getting kicked out of a game, get thrown in jail and never be allowed back in the park? It’s super funny when guys try to fight the security that’s there…dude you’re gonna lose, give it up. I understand loving your team and doing a little trash talking, but throwing fists never prove anything but how big of an idiot you are.

By: Little Nicky

Little Nicky — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:57:31 +0000

Rule #6 – DON’T DO THE WAVE!!!

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:57:24 +0000

Never wear a team jersey with the name of a player on the back who is younger than you are.

By: Met Fan Lou

Met Fan Lou — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:21:12 +0000

1. When a fan purchases a seat, IT is the whole seat so don’t use the back of the seat as your footrest.

2. On occasion I have purchased seats where a friend could not go. I use the empty seat to use for “junk” I brought to the game. Please ask for use of this seat. I normally say yes but at least ask.

3. You are not in a bar and profanity is not appreciated. Lots of kids go to games.

4. Don’t stand in the stairwell or stairs and block the view of the game for people in their seats.

5. If an adult and lucky enough to get a foul ball, don’t keept it. Smile and find a little kid near you to give the ball too. The smile is priceless!

6. Baseball is the greatest game in the world. Don’t DISS your hometeam at the ballpark. Yell at the tv all you want at home.

7. Never be impolite to your fellow fans or the ballpark staff and vendors.

8. Enjoy yourself but don’t get drunk. You may have to drive and most drunks turn ugly and stupid.

that’s it. thanks for letting me vent.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:08:43 +0000

Rule #1: LMAO!!!!!
Rule #2: LOL…. Come on Mitch, we’ve ALL done that!!
Rule #3: LOL, it’s more like insticts take over. Somehow You wanna go after the ball..
Rule #4: LMAO!! Agreed… Jeez, Shut the hell up right!!?
Rule #5: ROTFLMAO!!!! i had that happen to me a few times, i’ve acted like a dickey and said no, i’m busy, unless there were girls

Mitch, this was entertaining, the CORE once again salute you.. It’s good to see entertaining articles like this to make us forget the awful season we’ve had. Good job on this. I feel like a groupie of yours!!!