I don't want to turn this blog into a giant complaint board, and I'll do my best to keep these kinds of blogs to a minumum...HOWEVER...i have some beef with Toronto Blue Jays fans from yesterday's (Saturday, May 3, 2009) game.
I am anative Torontonian and am completely discouraged by what i saw at yesterdays game. My group of 4 showed up late to the game because of the closure on the QEW eastbound. We got to the box office and asked for four tickets in a row in the upper deck. $11 per ticket later and we're on our way up the ramp. Up and around we climbed to our gate. Gate 522, Row 21, Seats 1,2,3 and 4. For those of you who are not farmilliar with the Skydome (Rogers Centre...blegh), there are 22 rows in the upper deck level. We were in the bloodiest of nose bleed seats, but behind the plate so the view was still decent. We arrived at our seats to see 6 guys, probably a couple years younger than me, occupying 2 of our seats. My friend Jeff had gone to the washroom so i was with my girlfriend and her female friend, standing in the steep aisle checking my tickets and looking at the seats and checking my tickets again. I politely told the gentlemen sitting in our seats that he was, in fact, sitting in our seats. One of the younger gentlmen replied "this is the 500's buddy, you just find your own seats." Keeping my cool and composure in front of my lady friends I quickly replied, "I have found my own seats, you are in them, now can you move please." Clearly my wits were too much as they grudgingly got up and left the row.
Now, normally, i would have agreed and found better seats. But at this point, after a 2 and a half hour drive to the stadium (when it usually takes 35 minutes) i just wanted to park my keester, relax, and watch some Blue Jays baseball.
What angers me about this whole situtation is what the seat stealers said..."This is the 500's buddy, you just find your own seat." WHAT IS THIS THE BRONX? Are we in the big bad big apple? These kids were not even alive when the Jays last won anything significant. Toronto is well known for having the worst and most misunderstanding fans in most of pro sports (suits at the leafs games, cut throat Raptors fans etc.) Were in Toronto here, a city (for the most part) with about as much "bad-assness" as my grandmother. I had the oppertunity to attend a game in the upper deck at the old Yankees stadium last year and as long as you were a Yankee fan, you were reespected. Yes. In New York. Now i have some punkk kids telling me to find my own seats? What happened to the old school commaradary? The two parties in this confrontation were Blue Jays fans. Absolutely dispicable.
The second thing that happened which really grinds my gears about Jays fans came from another group of even younger kids. For the most part of the middle innings this group of 15 year olds sitting in the same row as I were leading cheers and doing the classic chirping of the other team; something I have absolutely no problem with. However, as the game went into extra innings, the fans didnt really increase their excitedness to the level that was suitable for a home-field advantage. So when the count was 0-0 with none out and Toronto pitching, a man a couple rows in front of us started a "Go Jays Go" cheer which excited our section a bit and i gladly joined him as one of the two loudest cheerers.
Now, here is the crappy part. One of the 15 year olds started yelling AT me and the guy leading the cheers saying "the count is 0-0 why are you cheering?" Are you fucking kidding me, kid? As far as I'm concerned, as long as you pay for the tickets, you can cheer whenever you bloody well want to cheer...not just when the pitcher is about to get a strike out or about to end the inning. And this didn't happen just once. No this went on for the better part of the 10th and 11th innings. Good thing Aaron Hill heard our cheers as he hit the game tying Home-run and the game winning single...clearly because of our "untimely" cheering.
No wonder Toronto fans get laughed at by the rest of the world. We're the only group of fans that yell at each other during cheers.
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