fun stuff you've seen or done at a ball game

[bertha katzenengel]

At Angels Stadium:

Beach balls are forbidden, but people bring them in and toss them around anyway, until the ushers come and take them away. One day I overheard a woman ask an usher, "Where you you buy the beach balls?"

Of course, in the 70s, there were the "TASTES GREAT!" - "LESS FILLING!" chant wars. Those were probably everywhere.

But the best at the stadium was the Tortilla Wars. It didn't last long, but people would bring big bags of corn tortillas and throw them like frisbees. Such fun.

What stuff have you seen or done at a ball game?

[Beer Snob-50]

1. a group of women

went to fenway park bleachers and all wore inflatable penises around their neck and handed out stickers for men that said, 'I had sex with Susie" It was Susie's birthday.

[bertha katzenengel]

2. LOL that's great!

What fun!

[XNASA]

3. Saw a guy behind the dugout at Wrigley catch a foul pop right in the face.

He was sitting 2 rows behind us. When the ball hit him, it split his glasses in two. He immediately turned to his wife and yelled, "I told you to hold my hot dog!!!!"

Everybody within 50 feet started laughing uncontrollably.

The guy stormed off....without a souvenir.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. *blink*

:rofl: i told you to . . . :rofl:

:bounce: That's hilarious! :rofl:

[bertha katzenengel]

5. just remembered another one - how could i forget this?

I took my nephew and a young friend to a game. My nephew was about 14; the girl, about 12.

A souvenir vendor came around and his big item that day was mini-helmets, the kind they put soft-serve ice cream in. He shouted, "mini-helmets, one dollar! Mini-helmets, one dollar!" He stood there forEVER and kept shouting this over and over and over!

Our young girlfriend finally yelled back at him, "Shut up for free!"

[tonkatoy57]

6. Busch Stadium. July 17, 1983

Went to a Cards game on my birthday. It was a typically scorching day in St. Louis, probably about 103 outside and hotter inside the stadium. (As Casey Stengel said in 1966 at the All Star game when asked how he liked the new stadium he said, "sure holds the heat well, doesn't it".)

My girlfriend and I arrived a little early, grabbed a beer, and took our seats. Directly behind us was a group that had been there for a while and were already drunk out of their minds. Somehow they had managed to get a couple of thermos's of Purple Jesus into the stadium and had polished those off during batting practice. The girl siting behind be suddenly leaned over and vomited Purple Jesus, hot dog, and peanuts all over my head and back.

I went to the bathroom and washed my head and shirt out in the sink, oh about 100 times to try to get the hot dog chunks off and the vomit smell off, but to no avail. I had to sit in a July sun in Busch stadium for 3 hours with no shirt on. Nice sunburn. That one afternoon probably increased my chances for skin cancer astronomically.

I still case the joint thoroughly whenever I go to a game and for several years I would take a spare shirt with me.

[bertha katzenengel]

7. OMFG

:wow: You poor thing. :yoiks:

Holy fuck.

:yoiks:

[johnnie]

8. It was after a ballgame at the old Cleveland Stadium

C.S.N played a concert after the game and the field was off limits. Well, I was getting squished against the fence and decide to jump on the field. I looked up and there were a couple of rent-a-cops running toward me so I did what was natural, I ran. I was running around in circle while the cops chased me around. I was having a blast, but then I got tackled. I got cuffed and as I was being led to the dugout there were a large group of people that knew who started clapping and yelling my name. The cop said "Oh, you have a fan club huh?" and he clamped the cuffs tighter. My hands were numbing out on me and when we got to the back room where they held the riff raff he took the cuffs off. I had cuts on my wrists and bleeding but I was still laughing at the image of those cops chasing me.

My g/f at the time came to get me out of the "tank", but I was never actually placed in there. I was bitchin' at the cop the whole time while my g/f pulled me out of there. Ahh.. it was good times. I was about 20-21. I had fun in those days. That's my baseball story.

[no name no slogan]

9. Saw the clip on TV

I don't know which game it was, but it was a man and woman up in the nosebleed seats out in center field. She was wearing a skirt and sitting on his lap.

Apparently the jumbotron camera operator was bored, and zoomed in on the two of them. Yup, you guessed it, they were doing the nasty right there in the center field bleachers.

Next thing you saw was a security guard breaking the two up. I'm not sure if they were detained or not, but you gotta admit it takes brass ones to do something like that.

[Initech]

10. Tortilla wars?

I've been going to Angel Stadium for YEARS and I dont remember this!

The craziest thing was a few weeks ago when they gave out posters and people kept making paper airplanes out of them and throwing them on the field.