The unwritten rule, though, is that they still need to be incredibly upset by this. For a brief moment, it felt like the Dodgers were going to win the World Series, were going to storm back and win four straight, just like the Yankees , and everybody floated out of that ballpark on a zephyr of hopes and optimism. A formative experience for me was my parents leaving this game in the seventh inning.
It was , and the Giants were awful. To give you a taste of the general malaise, just 7, people were at a Saturday game. The Astros took the lead in the seventh inning, and my dad said, screw it, I got stuff to do. When Joel Youngblood hit the walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth, we were listening to it on the radio, and I remember where we were, crossing the train tracks near Broadway Avenue.
I remember this because my mom looked at my dad with a stare of withering hatred and resentment that chills my soul to this day. This is the compact you make as a sports fan. Leave early if you feel like it. Just agree to wonder what-if for the rest of your life when you do it. Anything else is explicitly against the unwritten fan rules. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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However, I regret to inform you that there are always howevers. People trek to St. Louis Cardinals games from as far away as Arkansas, and I never see those stands emptying out before the stretch inning.
As I see it -- and I've been seeing the evidence around me for over 25 years -- many Dodger fans come late and leave early because willfully or not, they are disengaged from the game. Unless it's a final weekend or postseason contest with something at stake, these fans do not treat the game as a dramatic event but as a social one, like going to a big family picnic or a real cool party where you arrive fashionably late or leave early before the beer runs out. The game is merely the thing going on the background you look up to cheer and boo once in a while.
I would never think of showing up late to a play or leaving a movie early, but if I was just in the mood to catch a few scenes, maybe I would.
I attended two Dodger Stadium games last week, a midweek affair against the archrival Giants and the Saturday Adrian Gonzalez unveiling with the Marlins, and this theory was never made more clear. On Monday the 20th, despite sweeping the Giants recently in San Francisco and coming home after a fine road trip one game in front of them with ace Clayton Kershaw scheduled to pitch the opener, only 36, tickets were sold -- about two-thirds capacity.
Bobblehead Night was Tuesday, with fans spilling out of the upper decks. In other words, neither the Giants nor a great pennant race could achieve what a bobbling Fernando figurine did. How about Saturday night, after the megadeal trade news broke that morning, when the subsequent plane flight and stadium arrival of A-Gone was updated hourly like the arrival of the Pope?
Well, exactly more people showed up than on Wednesday night, and many long after his amazing home run cleared the fence. If an all-star Dodgers player made his debut appearance in a Red Sox uniform, you wouldn't find an available ticket from Vermont to Cape Cod. Both evenings, the reserved section around me was filled with people getting up constantly for food and beer, visiting with each other, talking about work, taking cell phone photos, smacking beach balls and balloons that went by, doing the wave, basically doing anything but watching and following the game in front of them.
This isn't to say these folks weren't having a great old time; they were certainly texting their friends enough to tell them so. At the same time, in every direction for at least 80 miles, scores of long-time, diehard Dodger fans were listening to the radio or comfortably at home watching the Vin Scully telecast. Ironically, Hall of Famer Scully is the most focused, informative broadcaster in the business.
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