Friday Todd and I went to the Cubs Dodgers game.
I splurged a bit and bought these $100 tickets in the Executive Level. The waiters come to your seat. The seats are cushioned. We were in the front row of the section. The bathrooms are nice.
We sat there for a few innings and some guy in a USC Keck Medical jacket says youre in my seats. Turns out we were one section over. He and his clan watch the game for maybe 3 innings and then in the top of the 6th leave.
Todd and I don’t notice it for about an inning, but they never come back.
The cliche about Dodger fans coming late and leaving early held true, even on a Friday night, even against the best team in baseball, even in a 1-run game. Even though the Dodgers are fighting to stay on top of the West.
It’s like, why are you buying these seats if you’re not going to actually sit in them?
Lets hope he had buddies in a better section or in a luxury suite, but i dont think so. There were many empty seats in the Executive Level and all over the stadium.
Maybe Ben Welch of the Times can investigate this weird, decades long, phenomena.
My wife and I see this all time in Cincinnati and we used to see it when we lived up north at Indians games. I have to imagine people have these expensive seats to be seen rather than watch the game. I don’t understand it at all.