May 08, 2007

Hospitalized for two weeks? That seems quite a bit more serious than the "you know when you go to the ballpark" type thing.

posted by bperk at 03:10 PM on May 08, 2007

I'm no lawyer, of course, but I think she probably has a case. A safe environment to enjoy a ballgame doesn't seem to be too much to ask, particularly when you add in the possibility that the man may have been overserved on the premises. I say award her a relief pitchers contract. Seems fair.

posted by THX-1138 at 04:14 PM on May 08, 2007

Many years ago I was sitting in lousy seats with my brother in the upper deck at Shea. Sparse crowd. Nobody else anywhere around us. Along come these two guys, one a grizzly, burly dude, wearing cutoff jean shorts that were not cutoff where they should have been (what mens cutoff jeans are?), staggering up the aisle. They enter in the row in front of us, and the burly guy sits right in front of me. Both of these guys are loaded, and they start trying to formulate sentences in the direction of my brother and I. We look at each other, and without saying a word, we pretty much know we both want to find somewhere else in the wide open upper deck to sit. I lean over to grab the stuff I put under my chair, and the burly dude (pretty freakin' strong) grabs my neck in a headlock and pulls me over his shoulder so my head is in his lap. An uncomfortable position, and I cannot see the game (or anything else that I would ever care to see again). I am not the fighting sort, and I am in no mood for getting my ass publicly kicked by somebody wearing those shorts, so I wrench myself loose and I run -- not walk, run -- to find other seats. We finally decide we are well enough out of vision and we sit down in seats that are much worse than the seats we left (we had been directly behind home plate). We aren't there five minutes before an usher comes up and asks to see our tickets. When he sees that we aren't in our ticketed seats, he tells us gruffly that we have to return from whence we came. Naturally, we tell him the ugly tale of our original seating arrangement. His response is that if we have a problem with a visitor we have to go to security and file a formal complaint but we cannot take any but our ticketed seats. I have no interest in revisiting my earlier nightmare with security, let alone missing a good chunk of the baseball game while playing he said/he said with Captain Cutoffs and some jaded security goon. So my brother and I spend the remainder of the game roaming the upper deck, sitting for up to 15 minutes at a time before catching an usher approaching and moving on. Finally, at the start of the ninth inning of a Fat Sid shutout against the Padres, an usher catches up to us and kicks us out of the park. Only time that has ever happened to me. Summary: this woman deserves every penny from the Mets she gets, and I am rooting for a landmark decision. I think it is certainly due her -- the Mets are either responsible for allowing a drunk into the park or for getting him in that condition -- and I can also identify with how awful it is to have to sit in the upper deck at Shea. Their stadium security is a joke.

posted by The Crafty Sousepaw at 05:43 PM on May 08, 2007

How did my post about the Papi/Bonds issue offend you? Because, you used a term for women's genitalia as an insult. L_B_B, as a woman, presumably one with genitals, took offense. Using gender-specific terms as insults is sometimes considered offensive by the gender whose specific term is being used.

posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:55 AM on May 09, 2007

When will people finally learn, if you want to go to a baseball game in New York City where the fans are personable, sober, and well-behaved (and all trim and in fantastic shape), go to Yankee Stadium!

posted by dyams at 07:55 AM on May 09, 2007

Please tell me you were a proffessional wrestler Weedy!?!?!?

posted by firecop at 08:32 AM on May 09, 2007

I've had a 300lb man on top of me, too - I can tell you. It's no picnic. Chikka Chikka Bow Wow.

posted by BornIcon at 09:25 AM on May 09, 2007

Glad to see the PC police is patroling this thread. Yuh, them's wicked bitches round here brutha. Like them See Ewe Next Tuesdays from Simmons. Call Murph and Sully an' tell 'em it ain't safe fuh assholes round heah.

posted by yerfatma at 11:55 AM on May 09, 2007

Glad to see the PC police is patroling this thread. I hope you mean Providence College.

posted by YukonGold at 01:59 PM on May 09, 2007

Glad to see the PC police is patroling this thread. If that's the best you can do, keep it to yourself, m'kay? yay-yo asked a question. I answered it. If you came here to start half-assed political arguments, kindly relocate elsewhere.

posted by The_Black_Hand at 04:00 PM on May 09, 2007

Okay, yay-yo, let's hear it from the horse's mouth. Why do you use the term "pussy" to mean "coward", and why do you say that someone should "sack up and be a man" when you mean "behave with courage and integrity"? Sometimes, you just can't win. It is pretty damn hard when the common no-neck idiom equates your gender with cowardice and lack of integrity.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:06 PM on May 09, 2007

If that's the case, is she speaking for 1/2 of the mammal species? speach. Unfortunately, even when you're not trying to, people get offended. Sometimes, you just can't win. I think you mean the Homo Sapien species, mammals being a class of animals, like reptiles, or fish, or birds, or amphibians. It's speech, not speach. I know I've used this line before, but wasn't that Don Imus' exuse too?

posted by tommybiden at 07:21 PM on May 09, 2007

And yes, the PC police are always in full force. And apparently, the grammar police ARE to. LBB, I honestly did not mean to offend you. Where I am from, the words "pussy", "faggot", and "bitch" are all interchangeable for "coward". I do see your point and I will try hard in the future to refrain from using slang so that I do not offend anyone. Sometimes I forget how sensitive people are, as I am not. It's very hard to offend me, unless you start talking shit about Kobe. (hahaha) I think you mean the Homo Sapien species, mammals being a class of animals, like reptiles, or fish, or birds, or amphibians. No, I was actually referring to mammals because of the fact that they have vagines (as Borat would say). But nice try! Why don't you go re-read the guidelines and stick to the topic instead of trying to be an asshole?

posted by yay-yo at 09:16 PM on May 09, 2007

Where I am from, the words "pussy", "faggot", and "bitch" are all interchangeable for "coward". Why don't you go re-read the guidelines and stick to the topic instead of trying to be an asshole? Sounds like a plan, I'll go read them now. I'll summarize the guidelines for you here. "We trust the members of the community to treat others with the respect you would afford yourself." And "New members who post personal attacks and other abusive behavior will be banned." That's 2 times today you've called me an asshole.

posted by tommybiden at 10:16 PM on May 09, 2007

And honestly Tommy, I never called you an asshole. I have asked you repeatedly to stop acting like one. I have also asked you if you are one. If you can present me with my post that says, "Hey Tommy, you are an asshole." I will gladly leave and never come back.

posted by yay-yo at 10:49 PM on May 09, 2007

yay-yo, I understand the "where I come from" argument, but it only works if you stay in your own little briar patch. Venture outside it, and what flies at home may not fly in the big wide world -- and when it doesn't, it's not because the big wide world is too "sensitive". It's not unreasonable or overly sensitive for people to object when a word that's synonymous with their gender or sexual orientation is equated to cowardice or lack of integrity. That's called standing up for yourself, and when a man does that, it's called courage.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 11:10 AM on May 10, 2007

Gotcha, yay-yo. Thanks for reading and thinking and contributing -- I appreciate it.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 11:44 AM on May 10, 2007