Take a look at the pictures in this Deadspin article called Hell Is Trying To Get Into A Ballpark On Opening Day.
Baseball keeps talking about security – heaven forbid you bring a bag to a game – but they don’t seem at all concerned about perimeter security. Take a look at some of the things that have gone on in Europe, then use the darkest parts of your imagination, and then ask yourself how having that many people in a line can possibly be a good thing.
Part of this is the move to paperless tickets. I have made the move to Cashless Donuts Chain. Stay with me, I’m going somewhere. Instead of using, you know, money – or even swiping my card – I use the Donuts Chain App so that I occasionally get a free coffee.
Every morning I hold up the line because the app isn’t responsive and takes a minute. Why don’t I open the app sooner? Because I am a dopey human.
At a baseball game there might be 40,000 other dopey humans. And when the apps don’t work you get a line. When you start patting everyone down you get a line. And when you get a line you create something outside the security perimeter that worries me.
We want you safe because we want you back – but we can’t have old fashioned tickets for some reason.
You’re insane if you try to go to a stadium in 2019. Did you see parking prices at Fake Not So New Yankee Stadium? $45. GFY.
