BREAKING NEWS: Chicago White Sox to put up netting all the way to foul poll
 

Well this is shit and completely a pussy move supported by Kevin Keitzman, a douche! :shake:

MLB is going to require it next year anyway, this gets them good PR.

Nobody wants to go see that shit


It’s like screwing with a condom. Safer yes but Only losers do that

How many people have been killed by a foul ball?

How many people have become incapacitated from a foul ball?

How many SERIOUS injuries since 1950 have occurred in MLB from foul balls?

This is a ****ing joke and if you support it, YOU AIN'T AN ALPHA, OR A BETA, YOU ARE A DOUCHE!

I bet there has been 25,000,000 foul balls in the last 50 years and probably 10 serious injuries.

What a great rate of success and safety!

And they wonder why they cant get people to the stadiums

LOL, have you seen where that stadium is at? Let's bolt down these deck chairs on the Titanic so no dies from them sliding into their heads.

Why the hell are you spelling cuck like that.

They just wanted to beat the Cubs to it first. All maneuvering.

People still follow baseball? :shrug:

The NHL added nets above the glass on each end of the rink and you can barely notice them when you watch the play live.

I'm willing to bet this is the same here.

You chodes simply hate change.

Are you upset because you want to go to White Sox games and are frustrated that your view might be impeded or just pissed off at the concept?

If people don't like the view, they won't go, and the team will pay for it financially. Or maybe families will feel more comfortable sitting down low now who might have otherwise sat elsewhere (or not gone at all).

Regardless, I have trouble getting worked up about a decision a team I don't care about made that will either work out for them financially or won't.

Never had your dad or grandpa or great grandpa take you to a game and catch foul balls?

I didn't live anywhere near a ballpark when I was a kid, so no. I've been recently and been pretty freaked out by a ball that broke a seat two rows in front of me, though.

I'm not saying I care one way or another about this rule, but I just have trouble caring about the decisions made by a for-profit business. If they piss off their "customers," so be it. That's what capitalism is all about.

I'm a Pirates fan and my first baseball game as a kid was in 1971 watching the Pirates and Phillies at the Vet.

Robert Clemente, Bill Mazeroski, Will Stargell and Dock Ellis all in one game.

I was at a SF Giants and St Louis Cards game at Candlestick and took great photos on top of the dugout of Barry Bonds.

I sat two rows back of the dugout for a Wash Nationals and Pirates game.

Also was behind home plate for a Baltimore Orioles vs Texas Rangers game at Camden Yards and I moved because the netting was annoying to my vision.

Anyone who says the netting is a non-factor with viewing the game NEVER sat behind netting. :shake:

It sucks! :#

Yeah that's true, their business.... but some of us have been to hundreds myself almost 1000 baseball games, always sat behind dugouts or 1st and 3rd. Never had an accident and I cant imagine not being able to snag a ball for a young fan or nephew or niece....
But yeah they can make that decision. It wont help attendance.

Do you have a penis or a vagina? :rolleyes:

Just googled rates in the worst ballpark for foul balls:

" And it happens regularly — at Fenway, a spectator is hurt by a stray ball or bat once every three or four games, according to figures from a 2000 lawsuit against the Red Sox."

I have no problem with more nets. I wouldn't take my kid to a game in foul ball territory. Of course she's only 6 months old.

A poll for a pole of course of course

Wow. That is way more than I was assuming it would be.

I was born January of 80... first game was the home opener in April that year. 3 months and 2 days old.

Yeah, same here. From that same article I think:

So during the regular season, there around 10 fan injuries per day around the MLB. That's kind of astounding. Obviously many of those injuries are probably minor like jammed fingers or whatever, but still.

That is BULLSHIT and a made up statistic from a lawyer.

Don't be so naive. :facepalm:

YOU STUPID ****S DON'T REALIZE THAT PEOPLE WHO CHASE FOUL BALLS AND FALL OR FIGHT EACH OTHER FOR A FOUL BALL OR FALL OVER THE RAILING ARE ADDED INTO THE STATS!!!

WAKE THE **** UP! GETTING "HIT" WITH A FOUL BALL IS INSIGNIFICANT!!!

GOD WE HAVE IDIOTS ON HERE!

And what move might a team make that would reduce the number of people getting injured while chasing after a foul ball?

Maybe it will keep their drunk fans from running out on the field and attacking Royals coaches.

Let's just ban EVERYTHING that ANYONE has EVERY gotten HURT by including SWIMMING in the OCEAN, where two people just got bit by a shark in North Carolina.

It's a stupid argument.

People do STUPID things. Can't fix that and I don't think 100,000,000 visitors to baseball should suffer because a few people aren't paying attention or acting like assholes.

And to be honest, why are parents bringing 2-4 years old kids to a professional baseball game? That's irresponsible parents.

Maybe those parents should be suspended from their jobs pending an investigation. :hmmm:

And why is it irresponsible?

LMAO Scho got triggered real quick.

The ballparks are doing everything in their power to ensure the safety of the crowd, which should be the goal for any establishment over all else. I'm not sure how intensely you're watching the game, but there are a whole lot of people who go to these games who couldn't care less about what's actually going on in the game. It's more like just a night out for them. Those are the people who are being catered to in this event, as well as small children and elderly people. And if your solution is "don't go if you don't watch the game", then good luck selling that one, because these ballparks couldn't care less about how interested/disinterested people are in the game, they just want money.

Yes I am.....all this over reaction and crazy shit to try and make a PERFECT world will never happen.

Why don't they just put plexiglass up around the ENTIRE stadium and no ball will EVER leave the field of play. :harumph:

I guess I've become that grumpy old guy that everybody throws popcorn at and laughs while pointing as I keep score old school. :D

It's more annoying than anything else. Like a kid that young is going to understand what's going on anyway. There should be a minimum age limit for kids. If you can afford to go to a game, you can afford a babysitter.

I don't like it when assholes bring little kids to the theater and **** up my movie experience. I absolutely wouldn't like it if I dropped a few hundred on seats and ended up stuck next to somebody's unruly screaming brat all day.

No shit...

Maybe Coors Field is just weird. I see tons of people around with young kids, and they seem to be having a good time with their family.

But I'll admit that Coors is a pretty laid back park, and that's the only stadium I've been in for 20 years. It's always in the top 10 league wide for attendance, and the Rockies are almost never a true contender. I'd guess fewer than 25% of people at a game on any given night are there to pay close attention.

I'm sure your fat ass would be able to snag a screamer off the bat without injury.

What a terrible example.

So if you screw w/o a condom you’re not a loser but yet if you contract a disease then you’re at fault b/c if you wore the condom the disease would’ve been preventable loser!!!

This is why the NBA and soccer are the new National Pastime

Do any Royals hit hard enough to cause injury?

And I bet your perfect model body with 2% body fat and 10" penis would be able to bend over and take it in the ass like a true Social Justice Warrior and defender of fans rights.

have you sat behind the new netting? You can hardly tell it’s there. Your eyes adjust to the foreground and background. They experimented with many versions. I’ve sat behind it in two minor league parks. It was fine. Not a distraction.

1,750

Its a small % but way too big of a number.

Baseball needs to take this assumed risk bullshit out of the language. Stadiums call if they want to install netting. But if someone gets hurt on something preventable with netting, the stadium should assume liability. Totally ridiculous that a fan should assume full risk for a flying bat hitting them in the head.

I went once and fans didn't mind it. They actually had fun not having to keep their head on a swivel constantly. And more kids there having a good time. Plenty of positives to go with the negatives.

If they games weren't so ****ing boring people would be watching

might as well put up plexiglass like hockey arenas

It would break his face right open.

He’d pay a hooker to catch it for him.

I bet the netting is intended to deflect bullets from the crowd.

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.

been a huge change on how they watch the game too. Phones, social Media and the internet distract fans in a way that didn’t happen 10-15 years ago.

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Basically the outrage is over an obstructed view most people will eventually forget about, and an inability to catch a line drive many of even the most attentive people couldn't stop.

???
You do realize baseball fans rarely get $$ out of a lawsuit because of the "baseball rule."

Because they get hit in the face with the ball?

Hockey should remove their glass barriers as well.

Funny how simple safety improvements become bumper sticker trigger material.

In my day we didn't have fancy netting or cell phones .
We caught line drives with our face and became disfigured freaks. And we liked it, we loved it!

The last couple of times I was in town during the season I went to a Royals game, sat behind home plate which must have had netting but I have no recollection of it, so it clearly didn't impede my view although I wasn't super close to it.

A reasonable number of foul balls still came over too, but generally much further left or right from where I was sitting.

Players want it. So shut your pie holes.

This is how you do funny guys. Pay attention...

Now THAT'S how it's done. And keep your ****ing 5-2 year-olds at HOME. Are you people ****ing reeruned or just cheap?

Getting this upset over something happening at a ballpark you'll never attend is the real cvck move.

In reality it is just a microcosm of society, people are lazy and distracted by their phones. So instead of paying attention or not putting a 3 year old in a spot where a screamer is going to come in, they just want it done for them.

Maybe they'll address the texting and driving epidemic that pisses me off way more than this.

Most people will get hit by a screamer even if they're not texting. The liability system in baseball is broken. I get the fan assumes some risk. But the guy losing the lawsuit against slugrrr for getting his eye knocked out is pretty ridiculous.

But the thing is, you should know you are assuming risk when you sit in certain spots. It's like lots of people don't even realize this, just the same as driving a car is assuming a risk yet people treat that like they aren't either.

And stadiums should also know they're assuming risk by not installing netting. The problem is, they have no incentive to make the game safer because they're protected almost absolutely from liability. Fans should assume most liability but not all of it.

I bet this dude hates seat belts and airbags.

If someone smashes into you I understand all safety measures, however people who literally fiddle with their phones all through driving are ridiculous.

I can't believe it took us this long to finally do this. baseball is so boring nobody's ever paying attention when the foul ball comes.

Indeed. However, they'd only have to pay attention for about 3 seconds every two minutes thanks to the snail pace of the game.