I swear every other time I go to a baseball game, I’m next to loud obnoxious drunks. I can’t seem to get away from these idiots. The last two times it’s happened it’s been Braves fans. Once in Atlanta and now at a Brewers game. I would expect it if I was sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley.

On vacation we took our two young boys to a game at Wrigley. Game over we saw all the drunks getting on the train, I told wife we'll have to wait till they clear out.
Struck up a conversation with a police officer,
he said NO NO. Take a bus about 15 blocks down this street and get off at such and such street,
and get on a non drunk train. A minute later he walked out in the street, put his hand up and stopped a bus. He told the driver make sure we get off at that street.
Very impressed with Chicago PD!!

I don’t go often, but this is why, when I do, I buy high end premium seats. Keeps out the riff-raff.

The ushers will not tolerate that shit in those seats.

I typically go to the Astros once or twice a year. Unfortunately, sitting in high dollar seats doesn't keep the loud, obnoxious drunks away from me.

Like most professional sports, a large portion of seats are purchased by Corporations which means the butts actually sitting in the seats didn't pay a dime. A small portion are actually fans of the sports, but instead are there for the experience. They haven't spent $100+ per seat so they get loaded and make asses of themselves. Also, since they didn't spend money on seats they spend money on a nearby hotel so they get liquored up in the hotel bar ahead of time, and keep it going at the game (there is more than beer at Minute Maid where the Astros play).

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Originally posted by 400m:
I would expect it if I was sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley.

I got a chuckle out of this because it was exactly my thought when I saw the thread title.

It's been quite a while since I've been to Wrigley Field, but in those days, if you went to a game on a summer day, it was a given that a large percentage of "Bleacher Bums" were going to be hammered.

I was at a game where the Cubs played San Diego. Someone decided to give the Padres' left fielder a hard time (can't remember his name so I'll just say it was "Smith"), and started chanting "Smith Is A F**king Bum!".

Soon, the entire left field bleachers crowd took up the chant. Then, the folks in the right field bleachers joined in, with the two sides alternating the chant and trying to outdo the other side. It was deafening.

I used to go to Reds games in Cincy. One of the best parts of the game was watching CPD nightstick the drunks.
Ah, the good old days!

This behavior is not limited to professional sport games .... For 15 years worked college football (southeastern conference) inside the stadium and the alcohol was free flowing because the fans brought it into the event. ...... Now alcohol is available for purchase at these events.... Have seen numerous people fitted with the stainless steel bracelets because they let their alligator mouths overload their bird sized brains.... Even when given the chance to pour out the drink or escorted out of the venue or to the lockup facility...........Current paid capacity is reported to be 102,321 persons at LSU Tiger Stadium ... Not counting all of the other support persons in the stadium. ............................... drill sgt.

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My oldest son is a Deputy and works extra duty at LSU football games . They are always hauling drunks out that can't seem to behave themselves .

Wait, you don’t expect drunks at a Brewers’ game? Does Bernie Brewer no longer slide into a giant mug of beer when the Brewers hit a home run or win the game?

The team that brought us the Two-Fisted Sloppper thinking it would shame people, but instead fans embraced the Slopper as a hero:



“When Paul Molitor left the Brewers for the Blue Jays after the 1992 season, he was asked what he’d miss most about Milwaukee. “It’s between the sausage races and the Two-Fisted Slopper,” he replied.” Link

Attended a few Sox games in Chicago when I was a kid. I quickly learned the drunks would chase the foul balls hit into the stands and take it from you if they had the chance. They were worse than the kids on the upper deck trying to hock loogies on you. The ushers were pretty much useless.

Back in the 90's when my wife and I were dating she was selling tickets for the S.F. Giants at the old Candlestick Park.

They had a section out in Right Field called the Family Pavilion. I think the tickets were $3 and No Drinking allowed.

Clear back in the 1900's, at the ripe old age of 16,
I could have gone to all the Iowa Hawkeye foot ball games,
But after two games in Nile Kinnick stadium I said not for me.

Drunks ruled the bleachers.

When I was going to Chavez Ravine to watch the Dodgers , I never saw a problem.

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Originally posted by bendable:

When I was going to Chavez Ravine to watch the Dodgers , I never saw a problem.

The Dodgers ceased to exist for me in May 1957, when they left Brooklyn. I watched many games at Ebbets Field, but the Dodgers were never the same once they went to California.

^^^ And they sunk to a new low when they welcomed Satanic worshipers.

My alma mater has decided it will sell alcohol to fans in the stands for the first time, ever.

SEC school, 61,000 people with unfettered access to liquor/beer at football games, its going to be interesting to see how that works out...

Imagine the revenue will outpace the desire for a beer free family venue....

Coming trend. Most of the students will still bring their own and could not afford the prices anyway. The number of arrests for boorish behavior will increase substantially. If someone falls from the upper deck the alcohol ban will come back.

Sometimes the calls I see from refs make me wonder if they were pre-gaming a little too…