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1. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: June 29, 2009 at 07:37 AM (#3236397)Why go at all then? They were on the DL before the game, and the Mets kept it close in the game.
'Beating traffic' is NEVER a good reason.
It is an extreme view, sure, but it is what it is.
Well, no. Depending on where you live, etc. it's reasonable. I've left games early for this reason when I lived in Salinas and was at a mid-week Giants game at the Stick or when I've been to a game with my brother and his young son and he needed to get his son home at a decent time.
In fact, outside of NYC I don't know of another locale where 9 a.m. is deemed acceptable as a starting time for work. And with wage cuts/layoffs/downsizing in full force most folksa are showing up even earlier and staying later.
To expect someone to hang into a game running after 11 p.m. and have to be up at 5 the next morning to meet life obligations is a bit much.
7:30 am for Shooty! (Please ####### kill me.)
Why? It's meaner if we let you live.
You clever swine!
I've left a game early once in my life - but imo if somebody so loves baseball that they are willing to buy a ticket even though they know that they might have to leave early, that makes them a real baseball fan too. Life can sometimes intrude, but a real baseball fan takes however much of a game that is possible. But things like having to work the next day (to earn money to buy more baseball tickets) or bringing a child with you (so that they learn to love baseball too) can factor in, and make leaving early necessary.
And for a fair amount of people in Milwaukee, a start time of 7 or 730 is a preferred time, especially for couples where one can start early and get home early for the kids.
In my travels 8 a.m. is commonplace. And more often than not folks are streaming in by 7:30 or so.
Yep. 7:30. I make up for it by leaving around 4:15 lately.
This is excellent news!
Because it would make Robert Moses very, very mad that you weren't using his bridges and parkways.
Oh. You mean like the Yankees' fans did during game 7 of the 2004 ALCS, Wally?
If I don't get home until midnight some night, I still get up at 6 and go to work the next day.
I stand by my assertion. Real fans watch until the final out (again, barring extraordinary circumstances).
I'll leave whenever I want and I'm still a real baseball fan. I go to 25+ games a year, and sometimes the team just sucks and I don't want to sit baking in 105 degree weather for the predictable 8th/9th inning.
Is this really even a discussion. Pretty sure anyone that spends significant time on this forum is a "real fan". Or does Rusty get some special prize for being the best Internet tough guy fan?
Sure. Why not? We all owe Rusty a coke. When I was in my late teens, early 20's, I felt the same way as Rusty about leaving a game, but I find now that "forcing" myself to do things past the point of enjoyment--like reading a William Gaddis novel--isn't worth the trouble.
'Beating traffic' is NEVER a good reason.
It is an extreme view, sure, but it is what it is.
agreed, my sarcastic rule used to be you are allowed to leave a game early if your wife(or you are the wife) is having a baby. and it's not yet August(in August or later, wife having a baby is not acceptable) I've since modified it to if you are taking kids, sometimes they will dictate you leave early. And a couple of years ago I had heat issues and had to leave early(I mean real early like in the 4th-5th inning and the Cardinals just started to kick the other teams ass as I'm leaving)
there is no good reason for leaving a game because the score is out of hand or something like that.
Like back on August 19, 1989 when I watched the Brewers lose 3-1 in 14 innings to the Sox and likely saw the beginning of the end of Danny Plesac as a closer. Plesac pitched 4 1/3 innings that night in relief. His numbers look ok to finish the season but he complained about arm soreness. And he never really got his grade A fastball back.
I also find that funny as many people are leaving at the same time (if the home team is losing) so you are just joining the crowd, I sit back, watch the rest of the game, watch the highlights on the board, take a walk to the car and have a relatively stress free ride home as the traffic has now thinned (it helps that I park about a mile or more away from the park anyway so I don't have to pay hideously stupid rates or deal with massive crowds that ignore crosswalks)
I think I saw one of the extreme versions of this. I was at the Blue Moon Odom/Francisco Barrios no hitter and the people in front of me were scoring the game. In the 7th inning one of the group goes "I am tired" and they all got up and left. I talked them out of their score card.
LOL! I left out the word "train."
I don't fancy having to hang around Penn Station after midnight on a Saturday -- as I almost had to this past weekend.
But I am not moving until the game is over. What you do is up to you (as long as you stay out of my way while you do it... where I DO get pissed is when a row of people get up in front of me and file out while there is still activity on the field).
Of course, the wild card in all this has to be rain delays, of which we've had a lot in D.C. this year. It's not similar to West Coast ballparks, where rain delays during a game are rare and rainouts even rarer.
Did anybody catch the Confederations Cup consolation game between Spain and South Africa yesterday? After Spain scored goals in the 88th and 89th minutes to seemingly snatch a massive upset away from the South Africans, the South African crowd was shown streaming out the exits. Suckers missed Mphela nailing the equalizer on a blast from 35 yards with literally nothing left on the clock in stoppage time. (Of course, Spain prevailed in overtime, but my point is that it's not just Los Angelenos or American sports fans in general who are pessimistic, defeatist sulkers.)
You aren't the first person to note this...
If you're taking public transit it makes a huge difference. No matter how many people leave early there's still a massive crush of people into train stations as the game ends. If you get up with one out in the 9th and walk along the concourse to the part of the stadium closest to the train station, you can see the end of the game AND ensure that you're on the first train back after the game ends, saving yourself 10 minutes or so. It may not sound like much, but when its b/w 6hrs of sleep or 5:50 its worth watching the last out from the railing.
Best part of the new Stadium. My seats are in the 400 level of course, so before the start of the 9th I now go down to the bottom level and stand on the concourse by one of the exits and watch the end of the game. I get to see the whole game and get to the train before the big rush.
- My first one (age 6), when I felt ill after eating a hot dog.
- One when I was a kid and the Red Sox were losing after 6 vs. the Twins, my father decided it was time to go. We heard Boston score 5 in the 7th on the car radio. After this I swore I'd never leave early again.
- Sox/O's in Baltimore, August 2001. I had a plane to catch, and Rod Beck wasn't helping.
- My daughter's first game (age 4). Late season game against the Devil Rays. I'd promised her ice cream but the concession stands were done early. In the 7th we took the T over to Fanueil Hall, and she had a strawberry cone at Steve's, two hours after her normal bedtime. The picture of her, huge smile, cone in hand, is on my desk.
That's it. Remember 2004 ALCS Game 3? I stayed for the whole thing. All kinds of late and/or painful games, I've stayed. I don't blame anyone for leaving.
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