Re: Security at Russo Park
More ready, fire, aim from athletic dept..the more missteps like this, wonder what the heck is happening with the thought process of those in charge...
Re: Security at Russo Park
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fanof71
More ready, fire, aim from athletic dept..the more missteps like this, wonder what the heck is happening with the thought process of those in charge...
aside from rubbing fans the wrong way - what does this do to the budget? How much money are we paying 30+ people to sit in a chair and guard a section with hardly anyone in it? When have we ever had a real problem with a fan sitting in someone else's seat and that fan refusing to move? To me that's when you get security involved. Not before.
Re: Security at Russo Park
The security attendants are just doing what they have been told to do. (as they should) I have been asked to leave a patio box with literally not a single other person on the entire deck. It may be excessive to a degree, but there is a balance somewhere, yet to be found.
To play devil's advocate: If someone donates to baseball, or pays 25k for a patio box, but just anyone can go up there and sit down, what incentive do they have to pay for the exclusivity? "I am not going to pay 25 grand again, I am just going to do sit up there for the 8 out of 10 games that they patio box owner is not there."
Re: Security at Russo Park
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jumboragncajun
The security attendants are just doing what they have been told to do. (as they should) I have been asked to leave a patio box with literally not a single other person on the entire deck. It may be excessive to a degree, but there is a balance somewhere, yet to be found.
To play devil's advocate: If someone donates to baseball, or pays 25k for a patio box, but just anyone can go up there and sit down, what incentive do they have to pay for the exclusivity? "I am not going to pay 25 grand again, I am just going to do sit up there for the 8 out of 10 games that they patio box owner is not there."
I don't blame the attendant at all - they are doing their job... An I do understand your point about why pay... it just rubs me the wrong way. The weather looked bad, we're there with kids, no one else is, where's the harm?
Re: Security at Russo Park
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Originally Posted by
jumboragncajun
The security attendants are just doing what they have been told to do. (as they should) I have been asked to leave a patio box with literally not a single other person on the entire deck. It may be excessive to a degree, but there is a balance somewhere, yet to be found.
To play devil's advocate: If someone donates to baseball, or pays 25k for a patio box, but just anyone can go up there and sit down, what incentive do they have to pay for the exclusivity? "I am not going to pay 25 grand again, I am just going to do sit up there for the 8 out of 10 games that they patio box owner is not there."
Exactly.
Re: Security at Russo Park
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Originally Posted by
jumboragncajun
The security attendants are just doing what they have been told to do. (as they should) I have been asked to leave a patio box with literally not a single other person on the entire deck. It may be excessive to a degree, but there is a balance somewhere, yet to be found.
To play devil's advocate: If someone donates to baseball, or pays 25k for a patio box, but just anyone can go up there and sit down, what incentive do they have to pay for the exclusivity? "I am not going to pay 25 grand again, I am just going to do sit up there for the 8 out of 10 games that they patio box owner is not there."
If I pay 25 grand for one of those boxes, I may go hang out up there when games aren't even going on....
Re: Security at Russo Park
Maybe call it your home away from home.
Re: Security at Russo Park
Here’s the other side of it. I was at the game Saturday and went inside the stadium club to get a drink and come back to my seats with people sitting in them. Should I ask them to move or find other seats? I heard a few people who had stadium club passes complaining about longer lines waiting to use the restroom.
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Ole Colony
Here’s the other side of it. I was at the game Saturday and went inside the stadium club to get a drink and come back to my seats with people sitting in them. Should I ask them to move or find other seats? I heard a few people who had stadium club passes complaining about longer lines waiting to use the restroom.
either seems to be a perfect solution to me.
Re: Security at Russo Park
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Ole Colony
Here’s the other side of it. I was at the game Saturday and went inside the stadium club to get a drink and come back to my seats with people sitting in them. Should I ask them to move or find other seats? I heard a few people who had stadium club passes complaining about longer lines waiting to use the restroom.
Sorry, but I will never understand why people not only think it would be ok to sit in more expensive seats that they did not pay for, but even get upset when the staff prohibits them from doing so.
That said, I do remember more than a couple of times last year during a wet and cold games, and very people left in the stadium, they not only let people sit anywhere they wanted, they even opened up the club house. So they can be flexible at times.
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bigearl
aside from rubbing fans the wrong way - what does this do to the budget? How much money are we paying 30+ people to sit in a chair and guard a section with hardly anyone in it? When have we ever had a real problem with a fan sitting in someone else's seat and that fan refusing to move? To me that's when you get security involved. Not before.
Wild guess. $10 an hour and 5 hour minimum x 30 = $1500
