Los Angeles Baseball- The Weather's Always Fair!

I hate Los Angeles baseball fans.

I hate Los Angeles baseball fans from Los Angeles. I hate Los Angeles baseball fans from Anaheim.

Claire and I were at the Dodger game over the weekend. For years, I had heard the rumors about Dodger fans. You know...they show up in the 3rd inning and leave by the 7th so they can beat traffic. I thought it was just a myth, like Santa Claus and global warming.

I was wrong.

The stadium was practically empty when the game started (on Mother's Day!) and people were still streaming in during the second and third innings. But you know what? LA has traffic, and lots of it. I was willing to give the Dodger fans the benefit of the doubt.

Coming into the 8th inning, the game was tied 5-5. It was a pretty boring game, but with the game tied it finally seemed like there was some suspense. And what did 70% of the fans do? They left! The Dodgers were coming up to bat in the bottom of the 8th in a tie game on a beautiful Sunday against a very suspect Cincinati bullpen, and most of the fans left the game!

Of course the Dodgers busted it open with 5 runs in the bottom of the 8th, but most everyone was gone by then. AND since the Dodgers scored 10 runs and won, each ticket stub was worth 10 free wings at Hooters. At first I thought this was a pretty stupid promotion for Hooters to have, seeing how 41,000 people could potentially claim their 10 wings. But then I realized that there were only about 50 fans on hand to actually see the Dodgers win, so most people probably didn't even realize that they could get free food.

And it's not just Dodger fans...Angel fans are the same way. They go to the game just to say that they went, they never cheer unless the giant electronic scoreboard tells them to "Make...Some...NOISE!!!" and they don't even care about the game.

And by the way...the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? Are you serious? First of all, Anaheim is in Orange County, not Los Angeles county. Second of all, Anaheim is an HOUR south of LA. What's next? The New York Red Sox of New York? The Las Vegas Pirates of Pittsburgh? The New York Giants of New Jersey? Ok...that last one is a bad example.

It just seems like this entire state is filled with fair-weather fans. Anyone who watched Sunday night's Golden State game could have seen it. All the hard-core fans were replaced with fair-weather fans because tickets were suddenly the hot item, and the crowd was a complete non-factor!

Ugh...

I'm going to cut this short because there's 5 minutes left in the 3rd quarter. Go Cubs and Bulls.