After half a season, you won't even notice it. Don't let that ruin the game for you. If anything, now you can check that urgent email on your phone or talk with your kids without fear of you or others in the crowd getting concussed.
We'll see. It is just a dumb idea. I don't check my email at a baseball game, I don't even bring in my phone. Why would I? Nothing kills the atmosphere more than texting every two minutes during a baseball game. Was at Fenway last year, about the best place you can watch a baseball game and even in between pitches I was just soaking up the atmosphere............I mean, you are at Fenway Park! Enough said. Who needs to check emails then?
I still think the netting behind the nets at NHL games is unnecessary. It takes away from a souvenir. Or watching the pregame warm up and literally hoping for a puck to go off the crossbar and into the crowd. That was always part of the atmosphere of the game. Now? How many pucks go into the stands at an NHL game? The odd one, but it might happen once a game. Why cheat the fans even more? The leagues have gotten worse ever since they've let the lawyers take over. You think that for $200 tickets you can have a shot at a souvenir right? Not anymore.
There are times when I'm at a game and I'm taking in the atmosphere, buying a beer, doing whatever and I could not be able to react to a 100MPH foul ball off the bat. There have been many line-drive foul balls that I have lost in the sun/lights etc. I'm not locked in on every goddamn pitch like I'm in the batters box when I'm at the game, why should I be? I'm trying to enjoy everything that being at a baseball game has to offer and blaming people for being on their phones is a weak attempt.
Do you think everyone that attends a game is able to react to foul balls? Now add to that, are they able to react to the extremely crazy bounces those foul balls take off seats/hand rails/stairs etc? Not everyone can be a superhuman and react to these things.
Blaming people on their phones is such a lazy attempt, but that is to be expected I think. Besides, those nets still allow plenty of foul balls to reach fans...not even sure what you're talking about. They even lift these nets up when BP is happening so fans can interact with the players still, at least at Mariners games they do - so, what is the issue?
I'll say it again, don't sit there. It has been written on the back of your ticket since the days of............well, I can't remember when they started this, I have always seen it. It probably started when some stuffy person got hit with a foul ball and it disturbed them so then MLB printed it on the back of tickets for the dumb people. Now, we are all paying the price for even dumber people. You just don't sit there, it is that simple. You can find a ton of places a foul ball will never reach at a baseball game. Or a home run. If you like this idea of netting then just wait for the days when someone suggests it is too dangerous to catch foul balls. Don't laugh, you are helping breed that as we speak with this blessing of extra netting.
There are tons of foul balls that enter the stands every game. From either the ground or the air. 30, 40, 50, maybe more depending on the game. All of the sudden that's cut down to what, how many? You pay the money you pay for a ticket but this is the thanks the fans get? Taking us even further out of the ballgame experience?
I will have to see how the netting looks, but by the sounds of it, at least in Toronto, it doesn't look like you will even be able to reach down on the foul lines and grab a foul ball coming your way. How does this give back to the fan? It doesn't. But you'll still pay $12 for a beer and $20 for a hotdog/pop combo. Sorry, the idea is just utter garbage and will only continue to get worse. Stay away from a baseball game if you are too lazy to pay attention to it.
He probably complained when the NHL did the same after the young lady died in Colombus. Some people just cannot stomach change.
You just simply don't sit there then. You can have compassion for Brittany Cecil in 2002 and still think that there should have been more logic to it. She was a kid, 12-13 I think, and not able to absorb a puck like an adult could. Not like an adult can do it well either, but still. It was in a spot above the top portion of the glass where a deflected puck can enter. You have the entire arena to pick from, if you aren't comfortable then you shouldn't sit there, especially if you have young kids that might not pay attention the same.
