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I agree. I have done it and your eyes forget they're there pretty quickly. I actually ended up loving it because you're not always anxious about watching every split second of the game. We've reached kind of a silly point where in order to keep the game convenient for some fans, it's been suggested that we exclude other fans (like families, kids...). I'd think inconvenience is a much better outcome than exclusion.

Dang, what a thing to be outraged by. How do you feel about PPE?

And then, bam. The next time you're in a forest on Endor, you walk right into one of these.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20130404044813

Exactly. They didn't even see the nets.

Aww shit, the Dodgers hate freedom too.

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/06/2...ball-hits-fan/

She was probably looking down at her phone texting emojis and a selfie with those goofy add-ons when she got hit in the noggin. :shake:

Hey, I just had a brainstorm: everyone who sits in the high risk seat gets to wear a goalie mask with their teams logo!

Problem solved......


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When do the Royals extend the nets??

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Like a real piece of shit, she was not a third baseman and yet had the audacity to sit beyond the nets. That's a screaming line drive from one of the best hitters in the game.

Let me know when Jersey gets a baseball team.

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At this point, since we're already kicking out kids and the elderly, no beer in these sections. No eating or drinking during pitches. No bathroom breaks. No food breaks. Everyone must wear a glove. It probably still won't be enough to stop a 100+ mph line drive from drilling you. 2 of those 3 were not on their phones.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As promised, the <a href="https://twitter.com/whitesox?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whitesox</a> are extending the protective netting at Guaranteed Rate Field all the way to each foul pole. They are the first <a href="https://twitter.com/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MLB</a> team to do so. <a href="https://twitter.com/cbschicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cbschicago</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Whitesox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Whitesox</a>/SoxTV <a href="https://t.co/1n2nazrYvr">pic.twitter.com/1n2nazrYvr</a></p>&mdash; Ryan Baker (@RyanBakerMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanBakerMedia/status/1149059116524089345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Royals plan on extending protective netting, perhaps before the end of the season. A club official said this was in motion before a fan was hit by a ball this weekend.<br><br>“We’ll go as far as we can.” <a href="https://t.co/WUHP4c5xbK">https://t.co/WUHP4c5xbK</a></p>&mdash; Sam Mellinger (@mellinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/mellinger/status/1150850168834658304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Like I said. Probably by next year every team will have this, it one impede the game one bit, and most of the posters complaining itt will forget they were ever against it.

They'll be on to the next "SJWs are destroying the world with their nanny state argle bargle" issue. And the cycle of life continues.

This just in:

Tampon dispensers to be installed on the back of every seat.

We'll see how this goes, if people have a negative reaction that'll be interesting.

Should help with your loose butthole problems.

WE NEED A GOD DAMN NET AROUND THE DOUGHNUT SHOP NOW! :rolleyes:

Toddler dies after falling into grease trap at Tim Horton's restaurant

https://www.foxnews.com/us/toddler-3...ant-police-say

A 3-year-old boy was killed in a tragic accident when he fell into unsecured grease trap behind a New York Tim Horton’s on Monday.

Efforts to revive the boy were unsuccessful, said Rochester Police Department investigator Francis Camp who choked back tears as he told reporters that the incident was a “horrible, horrible unimaginable, unspeakable tragedy.”

The toddler had come to work with his mother, an employee at the donut shop on Union Ave. in Rochester, officials said. She called cops shortly before 11 a.m. moments after her son wandered away from her side.

REASON FOR MASSIVE NYC BLACKOUT REMAINS A MYSTERY

Camp said “a witness” found the boy, who was not identified, within minutes and removed him from the grease pit.

That person administered CPR, as did police officers and paramedics, the investigator said. The boy was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Camp described the grease pit as similar to a manhole, just steps from the rear of the donut shop. The lid covering it was plastic.

“The lid gave way and he fell into the grease trap,” he said. “It looks like it was an unsecured lid.”

Reporters watched as officers tried to comfort distraught Tim Horton employees at the scene.

Investigators were working to determine the size of the grease trap, which is typically a steel tank used to keep fats, oils, and grease out of the sanitary sewer system, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported.

“What occurred today was a tragedy and on behalf of the Tim Hortons family, we offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the young boy who passed away,” Tim Hortons said.

After eating ballpark nachos it's certainly needed

-One person killed in the last 50 years from a foul ball

-214,000 people die each year from accidents and violence

:hmmm:

Good thing we're getting nets everywhere-let's put them up across the outfield as well because people get hit with home runs

https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/wi...c850w3200h.jpg

TIME TO BAN SWIMMING AND PUT NETS AROUND EVERY POOL!

From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. An additional 332 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents. About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger.

They could have used some sort of extended net over McCovey Cove back when Barry Bonds was playing. Many innocent fish were spooked by errant homers crashing into the water.

GOTTA BAN DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS OR THEY ALL HAVE A BE BEHIND NETS!!!!

Philadelphia, February 28, 2018
A new study released in the latest issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine shows that animal encounters remain a considerable cause of human harm and death. Researchers analyzed fatalities in the United States from venomous and nonvenomous animals from 2008-2015. They found that while many deaths from animal encounters are potentially avoidable, mortality rates did not decrease from 2008-2015. The animals most commonly responsible for human fatalities are farm animals, insects (hornets, wasps, and bees), and dogs.

In a follow-up to their previous study looking at data from 1999-2007, researchers from Stanford University used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database to collect data by type of animal and individuals’ age, race, sex, and region where the fatalities occurred. They found that from 2008-2015, there were 1,610 animal-related fatalities in the US, with the majority of deaths the result of encounters with nonvenomous animals (57 percent).

Scho just won all the gold medals in the False Equivalency Olympics.

Gotta ban assault weapons because they kill people? What about that one?

Scho, what it boils down to is cost to effectiveness ratio.

This is a very low hanging fruit and is a very cheap solution.

I will be nice and delete the pic. You are a ****.

Hint - the filtered words rhyme with bunt.

Looks pretty harmless to me........:hmmm:


https://www.gamelife.com/wp-content/...stmas-2017.jpg

You are a pussy-this was NY Times and CNN headlines and front page phots. YOU ARE A CENSORSHIP NAZI. Worse than Google or Twitter or Facebook.

You are a ****- plain and simple

If we all had to wear our own nets, we'd be safe everywhere.

Give it a few months - parents in the lower levels will be like - hey I don't have to watch to make sure my kid is paying attention every pitch - or worry about throwing my body in front of him.

Kinda like smoking bans in bars - which everyone hated at first and then were like - hey, this is kind of nice.

LMAO All this outrage over nets. Still see the game perfectly fine.

The most expensive seats in the stadium have to look through a net. Somehow it doesn't bother them.

Scho is picking a weird hill to die on...

The part that isn't mentioned in that tweet was a little girl was hit in the head by a foul ball yesterday and had to stay in the hospital overnight.

Forced compliance...eventually, the frog dies...yeah, great.

Real smart for Dad to be real cool and bring his 4-5 yr old daughter down in the line of fire and then everyone cries that young child hit by foul ball.

Not quite as dumb as adults bringing young kids to a protest March that turns violent and then is shocked.

It has to be deaths and not injuries that teams are trying to prevent?


That's a pretty reeruned stance.

You get used to it.

What a pussy!

Eventually the frog doesn't get lung cancer and the smokers all have more social interaction and potential hook-up introductions with their fellow exiles. Win-win.

Or, and here me out here this is going to sound crazy, but maybe the Dad shouldn't have to worry about his daughter being in a line of fire as a spectator of a sporting event. Maybe it's silly that 10,000 of the best seats in the stadium apparently should be free of children due to dangerous flying projectiles.

Maybe in some bizarro world that's a better experience for everyone, and a lot easier on the players who are clearly traumatized every time they injure someone with a foul ball or a bat.

Or maybe we all just need to grow a pair and always keep doing things the way we've always done them because change is frightening.

The people most upset about nets because it "ruins their experience" are perfectly comfortable saying no parent or kid deserves to sit in those seats. Must go for older people too. And the disabled. Uhh.... or how about we just put up the nets and anyone can sit wherever they want without "assumed risk." I just went to a game behind the nets at home/3rd. Not a damn person complained or barely even noticed.

I don't mind either way, I don't go enough to think I've got a realistic chance to have a foul ball come my way, and because getting off your phone at most Royals games is pretty tough.

At this point, who cares? They did it, you can't do anything about it, so don't bother to gripe anymore because it's done.

Yeah, I was in 218, right behind where that happened. The girl was preteen age, watching the game, and couldn't do shit when that ball went careening off her temple.

I've sat here for about 5 Dbacks games before. Some say they are some of the best seats in the house.

Oh the horror of the netting!!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/otqOgsal.jpg

A overweight, middle aged white man wouldn't be able to do shit with a ball like that either.

The OP should be thanking teams for keeping his ass safe!!!

FYP

You mean she couldn't catch a 120 mph line drive with her bare hands? Must be because she's young and she's a girl. I'm sure the drunk guy who was "stupid" enough to eat a hot dog during an inning would have been better prepared. Maybe we should also ban all uncoordinated women from the lower sections since we seem to have identified audiences who have no business being there.

It's great for drunks who want to eat, take bathroom and bar breaks, hold a beer and a pizza in hand. Great for parents who don't have to helicopter parent. Great for kids who can see their idols up close. Great for seniors who aren't quick enough to get out of the way. Great for casual fans who don't want to bring a glove to the stadium or can't catch a soft toss let alone a line drive. Even great for baseball fans who want to talk about the game, write shit in their score books, check the scores from other games. It's great for the players who have all said repeatedly they want nets. Nets don't just benefit the pussies who can't get out of the way. They benefit everybody.

It's bad for the 2 or 3 times a game a foul ball hits the new nets instead of going into the crowd. And the 1 or 2 people I've actually heard complain about it obstructing the view. It's not just a safety benefit. It's great for the game.

IM PISED GONA KIL MY FAMLY AND SELF

Rangers fan got hit in the head by a foul ball, 25 rows back.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">For the first time in 47 seasons, the original foul poles at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheK</a> are being replaced.<br> <br>A piece of one of the originals will be sent to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Royals</a> Hall of Fame.<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AlwaysRoyal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AlwaysRoyal</a> <a href="https://t.co/bnqduNB0Z2">pic.twitter.com/bnqduNB0Z2</a></p>&mdash; Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href="https://twitter.com/Royals/status/1215031369832644608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Royals are replacing the old foul poles to put up ones that can handle netting.

Meanwhile: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/ho...rnd/index.html

https://i.imgur.com/ofoN22h.png

The world moves on, things improve, the "dammit in my day we were tough" crowd like scho quickly forgets and moves on to the next wussification outrage that's going to ruin this country.

Yeah, I'm sure people were saying football was "wussifying" or whatever when Teddy Roosevelt almost banned the sport entirely because players kept dying on the field.

People will get over this.

I'm actually very surprised netting hasn't been mandated long ago in MLB considering our very very litigious society nowadays.:shrug:

Am I wrong to say that if you sit in an area of the stadium where balls are coming at you at 110 MPH, you fail to pay attention, and you get hit with said ball... that shit is on you.

https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/...-476042702.jpg

If you sit a 2 year old in that area, FAIL TO PAY ATTENTION, they get hit by a ball, and they now need to be spoon fed for the rest of their lives... that shit is on the parent.

Parent paying attention:

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Parent not paying attention:

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Nah... why experience personal accountability when we can just sue and babyproof everything for the dumbest common denominator?

I don't think there's any proof that the parent wasn't paying attention.

It's not the smartest thing to bring your kid there. But if your stadium's way of punting liability is to tell fans they have to be ready at a moment's notice to catch a 110 mph hardball screaming at your head or else it's your fault... So who's not allowed down there now? No kids. Nobody with poor coordination, probably a lot of women. No seniors. No handicapped. All phones confiscated. No scorebooks. And while we're at it, nobody should be allowed to hold a beer or nachos during a pitch. Maybe then people will just pay attention like they're supposed to.

This is a real dumbass take.

Why do they need to be told??? Logic states that a 100mph fastball crushed into the stands on a line drive is gonna hurt like a mother ****er if it hits you.

Drink beer and chow nachos while updating your twitter feed all you want. Nothing needs to be confiscated nor do people need to go through some sort of coordination test. But if you get drilled by a baseball... it is on you. If you brought your 2 year old that CAN'T pay attention for themselves... then doubly so.

/completely agreed with the bolded part

Excellent response. I can see why you are a valued member of this community. The conversation that you bring is just...

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Seriously who give a shit about the white sox.

And what about the players who are scarred for life? Maybe just to be nice to them we can look through some netting? Would you like to go to work knowing you could give a little kid brain damage - even if it's 100% her parents' fault?

This isn't exactly "better put warnings on everything to tell people hot coffee might not feel good when spilled into your lap".... why should there even be a possibility of being hit with a ball traveling at 110mph when you're watching a baseball game?

You could say they shouldn't sue and should assume the risk... but, saying the netting is 'babyproofing' is quite the stretch. And it's perfectly illustrated by your "paying attention" pic being of a guy knocking down a bat instead of a 110mph ball.

I'm good with the nets being extended to protect the fans. I remember that September 1, 1982, game when Amos Otis threw his bat on three consecutive swings (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/09...4530399873600/), with the first bat going over the Rangers (third base) dugout and hitting a fan that I believe may have been hard-of-hearing. I don't fully trust my memory, but I think the injured fan had come to the game missing an ear and when he got hit, blood was coming from that area of his head. It was already bad enough that a fan got injured, but that particular fan was someone who seemed to go from one minute paying attention to the game to then being a very unwilling object of everyone's attention, frightened and injured. I was only a couple of rows away, with my back turned making a hot dog for a customer. (I was a food vendor at Truman Sports Complex from 1982-88.) That bat did some damage. The Rangers manager said after the game that he felt that Otis was trying to throw the bat into the dugout, in retaliation for being hit in the back of his head during his previous plate appearance. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2635...2_amos_otis_2/

Anyway, back then, the nets just protected the areas in between the dugouts, but now they also protect the area behind the dugouts. I'm OK with them going further down the line, mostly to protect fans from hard-hit foul balls, but the nets also would prevent fan interference, which very much irks me. Down the left-field foul lines in Chicago, there was that ridiculous Bartman incident that kept Alou from catching a foul at Wrigley, but there was also that glorious catch by Alex Gordon against the White Sox, so I suppose there are some bad aspects to the extended netting. But, all and all, I'd rather not see fans and workers in the stands get hit by projectiles.

I have gone to work knowing I could give a kid brain damage if the parent was negligent. While I am grateful it never happened and I would have felt bad for the kid... I, for one, wouldn't have been "scarred for life" over it as it was something completely out of my control.

Has a ballplayer stated they were scarred for life because someone got brained by a foul ball or is this editorialized?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=albert+alm...=v198-1&ia=web

Doesn't come up with him saying anything of that nature. I did read how some players called for added netting but nothing about "scarred for life". Again though... they are calling for the babyproofing of a stadium to cater to the dumbest common denominator.

I'm not adamantly against the additional netting. I'll never sit behind the dugout again but that aside it won't change whether or not I watch the game. I'm simply wondering why there is zero accountability for those who get hit. They sue, team settles. Never mind that the majority of these injures could be avoided by simply being aware of the game you paid to go watch.

Pay attention and you/your crotchfruit likely doesn't get a baseball to the dome.

Dude you are acting like everything is cut and dry. There are many variables and instances that a person can not be perfectly aware and respond in that split second.

If a fan gets drilled by a baseball even though you're paying attention or your only crime was eating a hot dog or drinking a beer or talking to your neighbor, then that's a problem with stadiums as we know it. Not the fans. I wouldn't bring a 2-year old down there... but let's not let that distract from the idea that a section that is perfectly capable of being safe enough for that 2-year old to be there intentionally chooses not to do it.