Ambulance chasers !! Always comes down to $$.

It's insane that this hasn't happened already. There is literally no good reason to not have the netting extended and every reason to do it.

If you're so worried about getting baseballs (and I have no idea why anybody would be), just go to batting practice or catch foul pop ups/home runs.

Isn't this only to stop line drives? Foul ball pop ups are still in play as I assume there is no net over the top.

I sit behind netting at NHL games all the time. It has literally no impact on my viewing experience.

Yes.

That's what I thought. Hey bitchers, stop bitching.

Balls are coming on a line at 110+ MPH into the stands multiple times a game these days. This needed to happen a while ago.

Another alternative would be to issue catcher's masks to fans.

Edit: I wonder if that would interfere with concessions sales.

These days?

This has been happening since the beginning of baseball.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KEYE5nAief...xcite+Seat.JPG

https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...-excite-seats/

In Tokyo, you get a choice between a glove or a helmet if you are daring enough to sit in the "Excite Seats." Which would you choose?

There were always hard hit balls except now pitchers are throwing harder than ever before and hitters are swinging harder than ever before. It's actually been a huge change in that regard over the past 20 or so years.

Might help with the obesity epidemic. :)

Oh, Hannibal Lecter mask night. LMAO

Maybe it should be like those indy cars where they put governors on them to limit their top speed. The pitchers must always have both feet on the ground during a pitch, and the batters have to have a stance with the bat extended over the plate.

This was only a matter of time. The reality guys pitch faster and players hit the ball harder and people spend too much time on their phones.

The other unmentioned thing about this is parks have less foul territory than they used to.

An article I read also mentioned that ballparks that have been built in the past few decades have the seats about 20% closer to home plate compared to older stadiums. So the balls are coming harder, and you have less time to react.