Additionally a lot of people in Florida don’t have much discretionary income- low wage earners or retirees on fixed income. Then there are the fans who have money but would rather spend it more for football than baseball.
They need a shrewd GM to make it happen but, yes, that is their pattern. Build for a one-year run at a title then tear it all down in a fire sale and start another five-year plan.
But I bet we hear about throwing snowballs at Santa at some point if the Phils go deep in the playoffs
I mean, they almost killed a guy. And when I was there in 2008 someone took my hat off my head and threw it from the upper deck as the Phillies clinched the series. Then he said it was for my own protection and I think he was half-sincere (I had already not worn it as I was walking there from Echo Park).
But of course there are bad drunk fans everywhere. I've seen some things at Madison Square Garden and I've also seen bad Flyers fans on the road.
My Dad said the scariest fan situation he was ever in was in Kansas City at some random midseason game.
Peter Cetera of the band Chicago was beaten up after a game in the late 1960s at Dodger Stadium (he was a Cubs fan). He had his jaw wired shut, and it caused him to change his singing style, which ended up serving him well in the long run.
I've heard stories about Giants and Padres fans too. The times I have seen the Phillies play in San Francisco, some fans have been nasty. I recall reading that a Padres fan shoved Ryne Sandberg's father down an escalator in the 1984 NLCS. A Dodgers fan got stabbed to death after a a Giants-Dodgers game in San Francisco in 2013. So much for laid-back California.
Yet, Philadelphia fans are America's barbarians. The other three teams take the blame for what Eagles fans do.
I’m old enough to remember when Dodge Stadim was called Chavez Rqvine a(where it was built) I always heard stories about parking to fights. There are@d fans everywhere, as there are drunken idiots everywhere.
