A Day at the Ballpark

So we went to the baseball game today. D-Backs Vs Dodgers and as usual it was attended heavily by wanna-be gangbangers. We sit on the concourse level in the handicapped area so we don't have to get up and down all the time as people come and go. There is a medical reason we sit where we sit. Our actual seats are just below where we sat today. Each week we trade our tickets for seats in the handicapped area. We have half season tickets for our seats which is roughly 40 games.

There is a big push at the park to renew season tickets so I went to discuss with the guy at the season ticket booth renewing our seats, but this time in the handicapped area. Ticket guy gets on the computer and fiddles around for about five minutes and then tells me he cannot sell me the seats/tickets. I'm naturally puzzled over this as most businesses are more than willing to make a $4K plus sale. 

We talk further and he explains that state and federal laws require them to provide X-percentage of seats for handicapped individuals and they are under that requirment already so I can't have the seats. He will contact the Diversity Coordinator and have her contact me to discuss how they will be allowed to sell me season tickets in the section of my choice. Keep in mind we have been sitting in this handicapped section all year already. Anyway we will await the call from the Diversity Coordinator and maybe, just maybe I can buy some damn seats without the government stepping in and stopping the sale. I go back to our seats and explain this to the wife and she like I just scratchs her head about it.

Because we are on the concourse level people frequently congregate behind us to watch the game. This is fine when they are D-Backs fans but gets annoying when it is obnoxious dodgers fans. We learned a way to cope with this however. When there are non-obnoxious D-Backs fans behind us we stay seated. When dodger fans stand behind us we stand up to block their view. Me being six foot three and the SO being Six feet tall makes a pretty effective barrier and usually the dodgers fans leave pretty quickly.

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