Over the weekend I went to see the Philadelphia Phillies at the new Citizens Bank Park. It was my second time there, but my first time in the "regular" seats( the first time I went, I was fortunate to get a Suite). It was a double-header as the rain caused the game from the night before to be post-poned. We make it up to our "nose-bleed" seats (although it was quite high, the view of the city's skyline was magnificent) and start to get settled in. Then I realized that I was hungry and had to travel what seemed like a mile for food, but that is an altogether different story.
I was happy to see that there was no one in our row but us. I liked this because I then felt that I could spread out and relax a little. As the game went on more and more fans showed up. The thing I noticed that was quite amusing to me was the fact that most of the people decided to just sit "where ever". It was like they felt that since they had upper deck seats, it did not matter where they sat.
I found this amusing because numerous people were asked to move seats because the "real" owners of the seats had arrived. Now I don't know about anyone else, but when I go to a game I want to sit in my correct seat and not have to worry about being booted out and causing a commotion by having to gather my goods and stepping over people to exit the row. Then I noticed that the people who got booted went to the next set of open seats!! Come on, people, go sit where you are supposed to. Their shenanigans were making me miss the game because of course I had to be nosey to see what was happening and why there were so many people standing up.
Another thing I noticed was that the people who wanted to get up the most were the ones who were sitting near the middle of the row. This meant that they had to keep disturbing the people in their row each and every time they wanted to get up. My question is this: Why don't the people who get up frequently request aisle seats? This would alleviate the painstaking process of making everyone in the row get up every ten minutes. It seemed like the seventh inning stretch lasted the whole game for some people. I think that everyone should keep in mind that they are there to see a game; not to sit where they want or disturb the other people who want to see the game. What do you think? Is there anything at a sporting event that disturbs you or makes you wish you had stayed home to watch the game on your big screen tv?
