Let's ban Zack Hample from GABP

[NebraskaRed]

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...abp/572828002/

He is history's greatest monster

[WrongVerb]

He seems to have fun with it and wasn't a jerk about giving Blandino the ball. I say good for him. Everyone needs a hobby.

[Boston Red]

Hopefully Blandino is more Trout and Didi than Mike Nickeas (who?).

[Umkubas]

" Mike Nickeas"

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[The Operator]

" Mike Nickeas"

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The Stanford Cardinals will not be happy that you are writing that about any other college team.

[Tom Servo]

He seems to have fun with it and wasn't a jerk about giving Blandino the ball. I say good for him. Everyone needs a hobby.

Counterpoint: he sucks

[redsrule2500]

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...abp/572828002/

He is history's greatest monster

Yeah, let's ban an actual fan of baseball from baseball games.

[M2]

The GAB has to be the best place in the majors for a ballhawk. Lots of HR, not that many fans.

[Chip R]

We can do that? I wasn't aware we had that much power.

[reds44]

Right after we ban Pete Rose.

[Patrick Bateman]

The main problem I have with it, is that for every ball he gets, he's taking one from another fan.
Most collectors or hobbies that people have are self beneficial and have no effect on others.
Catching a baseball at a game is a unique experience and something that may or may not happen in a fan's lifetime.
That's 9,000 fans that his hobby has taken away from, and potentially young fans that would be worth more to a child or someone who is just getting into the game.

I know when I have been to ballparks that ushers don't always let me switch seats, and certainly frown upon jumping over seats for safety and respect reasons. I don't think he's doing anything that deserves a ban, but would suggest there are rules in place that prevent him from being able to manipulate the ability to move around the park and strategically take away the experience from people that have legitimately paid to be in a certain section of the park.

[dougdirt]

I know when I have been to ballparks that ushers don't always let me switch seats, and certainly frown upon jumping over seats for safety and respect reasons. I don't think he's doing anything that deserves a ban, but would suggest there are rules in place that prevent him from being able to manipulate the ability to move around the park and strategically take away the experience from people that have legitimately paid to be in a certain section of the park.

When there are 30 people in an entire section, the ushers shouldn't be getting on people about moving around seats. That stuff drives me crazy.

I was at a minor league game in the last few years (I'm going to be very vague here because I don't want to throw any particular organization under the bus) and saw an usher go down and check on tickets of these two young men (they looked like they were somewhere in that 18-25 range). They didn't have tickets for those seats. He asked them to move. They were literally the only people sitting in the first 13 rows of that section. There were about 8 total people in the section. Stuff like that is incredibly petty.

Here's another fun one. My best friend a few years ago bought seats in Baltimore behind the plate. Second row. Seats that cost like $200. He was literally the only person in his row. He scooted over one seat after like 3 innings so he would be seen on TV (his seat was right out of frame). The usher came down and threatened to have him removed from the ballpark if he didn't move back to his original seat. You know, the one right next to it. NO ONE ELSE WAS IN THE ROW.

Just drives me crazy when people do stuff like that.

Side rant, of course. Hample is a different story. I just wanted to rant about ushers being turds.

[Patrick Bateman]

When there are 30 people in an entire section, the ushers shouldn't be getting on people about moving around seats. That stuff drives me crazy.

I was at a minor league game in the last few years (I'm going to be very vague here because I don't want to throw any particular organization under the bus) and saw an usher go down and check on tickets of these two young men (they looked like they were somewhere in that 18-25 range). They didn't have tickets for those seats. He asked them to move. They were literally the only people sitting in the first 13 rows of that section. There were about 8 total people in the section. Stuff like that is incredibly petty.

Here's another fun one. My best friend a few years ago bought seats in Baltimore behind the plate. Second row. Seats that cost like $200. He was literally the only person in his row. He scooted over one seat after like 3 innings so he would be seen on TV (his seat was right out of frame). The usher came down and threatened to have him removed from the ballpark if he didn't move back to his original seat. You know, the one right next to it. NO ONE ELSE WAS IN THE ROW.

Just drives me crazy when people do stuff like that.

Side rant, of course. Hample is a different story. I just wanted to rant about ushers being turds.

Part of it is about price protection for the team. If everyone knows you can just move down to better seats, then nobody would ever by the premium seats. The other side when your crowds are that crappy is to do anything it takes to get customers in the park and give them a good experience.

I guess I'm saying its not a completely black and white thing.

Anyways, you are right, Hample is a different story. He's moving around and taking advantage of the situation. You'd almost have to create a completely different set of rules to prevent him from doing what he's doing. Ultimately, he's only attending a few Reds games, and going from stadium to stadium, so its not like its an issue that is going to both GABP citizens at each game.

[bucksfan2]

Part of it is about price protection for the team. If everyone knows you can just move down to better seats, then nobody would ever by the premium seats. The other side when your crowds are that crappy is to do anything it takes to get customers in the park and give them a good experience.

I guess I'm saying its not a completely black and white thing.

Anyways, you are right, Hample is a different story. He's moving around and taking advantage of the situation. You'd almost have to create a completely different set of rules to prevent him from doing what he's doing. Ultimately, he's only attending a few Reds games, and going from stadium to stadium, so its not like its an issue that is going to both GABP citizens at each game.

Eh, the Reds do a decent job of enticing their season ticket holders now. Another thing you have to consider, how many of the people actually pay for seats as opposed to being given seats? It just doesn't bother me, if there are open seats, and someone takes the seat and is respectful, especially if they have kids, more power to them. I remember the days at Riverfront where the stadium would be empty but there were ushers who wouldn't let you go down from the green to blue level if you didn't have a ticket.

As for his guy catching HR's, whatever floats your boat. As long as he isn't pushing people over, it doesn't bother me. If I caught Blandino's HR and the Reds asked me what I wanted, I probably would have said an auto Joey Votto bat. But at the end of the day that ball means a ton to Blandino and is pretty meaningless to me. I have caught one foul ball, gave it to my nephew who subsequently lost it in the woods playing baseball.

[RadfordVA]

When there are 30 people in an entire section, the ushers shouldn't be getting on people about moving around seats. That stuff drives me crazy.

I was at a minor league game in the last few years (I'm going to be very vague here because I don't want to throw any particular organization under the bus) and saw an usher go down and check on tickets of these two young men (they looked like they were somewhere in that 18-25 range). They didn't have tickets for those seats. He asked them to move. They were literally the only people sitting in the first 13 rows of that section. There were about 8 total people in the section. Stuff like that is incredibly petty.

Here's another fun one. My best friend a few years ago bought seats in Baltimore behind the plate. Second row. Seats that cost like $200. He was literally the only person in his row. He scooted over one seat after like 3 innings so he would be seen on TV (his seat was right out of frame). The usher came down and threatened to have him removed from the ballpark if he didn't move back to his original seat. You know, the one right next to it. NO ONE ELSE WAS IN THE ROW.

Just drives me crazy when people do stuff like that.

Side rant, of course. Hample is a different story. I just wanted to rant about ushers being turds.

Or people could just pay for the seats they want to sit in. It is pretty frustrating to take the family and buy tickets in front row of right field so kids have a shot at a ball, only to have grown men tower over them taking every ball they can knowing they only bought standing room only tickets.