Scrooge McCourt Strikes Again
This is outrageous, absurd, and indefensible.
Basically, if you don’t have box seats at a Dodger game, good luck getting an autograph. Under the guise of answering complaints regarding “the crowded conditions pregame at [box] seats and on the concourse from fans trying to get close to the players,” Dodger stadium no longer allows fans who don’t hold those seats into that area.
What?! If I have a seat near the dugout and I don’t feel like hounding players for autographs, I’m not at the game yet. If you are, there are plenty of seats available three hours before game time. Oh? You don’t want some of the rabble’s discarded hot dog wrapper on the ground in front of you? Throw it away or don’t bother coming, asshole.
This is just another example of the elitism of baseball. It’s long been a game for the rich, and that’s becoming more extreme. As a proper capitalist, I have no problem with higher prices for premium seats, as long as there are some that are reasonably affordable and no fan is treated differently based on “class.” We’ve all come together to enjoy this game, we’ll go to trendy nightclubs for the velvet rope. I’ve sat “behind the ropes” in the best seats in Yankee Stadium, and frankly, been embarrassed at the waiter service and Stadium Club bullshit. Its in baseball’s best interest to keep as many kids as possible as fans, and Frank McCourt, Charles Steinberg and the Dodgers clearly don’t care about poor kids.
I’ll forever celebrate the day John W. Henry bought the Sox, mostly because he wasn’t Frank McCourt.
(After writing this, I’ve realized the article is three weeks old. Whatever, more people need to know.)
Outrageous, absurd, indefensible, and since dropped.
I’m a Dodgers fan and I hate McCourt, but the organization listened to the fans on this one.
Up until about 5 years ago, I thought this Frank McCourt was the same guy who wrote Angela’s Ashes. (Yes, the timeline doesn’t make sense, but I tend to make dumb mistakes).
I figured it was a great story of “Poor Irish immigrant moves to Boston and becomes millionaire”, which I guess is only half right.