Comments on: Poll: How Many Games Do You Attend? http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/ Major League Baseball News from Spring Training to the World Series Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:49:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve C http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 Steve C Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:34:34 +0000 http://www.knucklecurve.com/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/#comment-1401 or WWE I try to make it out to 10+ games a year usaly on give away nights. or WWE

I try to make it out to 10+ games a year usaly on give away nights.

]]> By: Geoff Young http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Geoff Young Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:17:31 +0000 http://www.knucklecurve.com/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/#comment-1353 Yeah, unfortunately "that element" does seem to be more prevalent at games these days. I wish they'd stick to watching football... Yeah, unfortunately “that element” does seem to be more prevalent at games these days. I wish they’d stick to watching football…

]]> By: Larry http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/comment-page-1/#comment-1445 Larry Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:11:36 +0000 http://www.knucklecurve.com/poll-how-many-games-do-you-attend/#comment-1445 It's funny, but not in a ha-ha way. There was a time when I would go to 30 or 40 games a year. I had far less disposable income, and the Mets of the mid to late 80s were a hot ticket, but I would get on a train and head to Shea, and buy a ticket or three from a scalper, and get anywhere from good to excellent seats. Even buying tix that way, somehow it was doable. These days I live in Seattle. Safeco is a beautiful ballpark. The fans are maybe not so rabid as in NY, but knowledgeable and friendly. And since Sweet Lou left town, there's been no reason to even think about buying from a scalper. But the cost of tickets, and of everything else in the ballpark, and the incredible volume of booze flowing, make the experience tough to endure, and my watching is increasingly done online or on TV. And at least a couple of games a year are back at Shea (even one at Yankee Stadium last year. ugh.), where the beer drinking is even worse than out here, and the drinkers are loud, rowdy and offensive, and the tickets and such are priced just as prohibitively. So I know it isn't a local phenomenon. It’s funny, but not in a ha-ha way. There was a time when I would go to 30 or 40 games a year. I had far less disposable income, and the Mets of the mid to late 80s were a hot ticket, but I would get on a train and head to Shea, and buy a ticket or three from a scalper, and get anywhere from good to excellent seats. Even buying tix that way, somehow it was doable.

These days I live in Seattle. Safeco is a beautiful ballpark. The fans are maybe not so rabid as in NY, but knowledgeable and friendly. And since Sweet Lou left town, there’s been no reason to even think about buying from a scalper. But the cost of tickets, and of everything else in the ballpark, and the incredible volume of booze flowing, make the experience tough to endure, and my watching is increasingly done online or on TV.

And at least a couple of games a year are back at Shea (even one at Yankee Stadium last year. ugh.), where the beer drinking is even worse than out here, and the drinkers are loud, rowdy and offensive, and the tickets and such are priced just as prohibitively. So I know it isn’t a local phenomenon.

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