Why do the ushers at Camden Yards suck so bad?

by CStoneNo37 on Sep 7, 2007 10:10 AM EDT Comment 11 comments

I know I've heard similar complaints before so this is probably beating a dead horse, but I need to do a short rant.

Five of my friends and I have a 13 game plan in section 85, and that plan included last night's game. So we're surrounded by BoSox fans (not surprising) and decided pretty early on that we needed to be vocal. So we're booing when the Red Sox fans cheer and all that crap ... nothing offensive. We took some good-natured ribbing from a few Sox fans around us, but by the 9th inning we're running out of steam and not really saying much. So when Tek singles in the go-ahead run the stadium goes wild and my friend yells something pretty stupid like "Go back to Boston" or "Sit down." And a few guys in the section in front of us turn around to give us shit. Not too surprising. But the one dude who really wants to get some shots in is decked out in red and blue, but not for the Red Sox ... this clown is wearing a Phillies jersey and hat and for some reason is there rooting on the Red Sox like he grew up trolling Yawkey Way. He yells something to the effect of "What now bitch!?" or something equally ridiculous, so my friends and I can't resist.

"YOU'RE WEARING FUCKING PHILLIES GEAR! YOU'VE LOST 10,000 GAMES! THAT'S OVER 60 SEASONS WORTH OF LOSSES!" etc. etc.

Profanities were exchanged but honestly I'm not sure too many people heard us over the Sox fans' jubilation.

So it's dying down and the usher for our section comes to us -- not the Sox/Phillies fans -- and says to sit down and keep our mouths shut, and if she hears anything else she's kicking us out. Not a word to the Sox fans.

Of course the Sox fans are having a field day with this.. I'm fine that she told us to shut up, but tell them too. So we tell her to go explain it to them also and she said that they weren't doing anything wrong.

Then she proceeds to go sit next to them for the remainder of the game and share a few laughs.

This isn't the first time I've heard of OUR ushers bending over backwards to please opposing fans in spite of Orioles fans. Why the hell does that happen?

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As Deep Throat said,

"Follow the money."

by Jonnypops on Sep 7, 2007 10:37 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That really sucks

I've heard these usher horror stories a few times, but I have personally never had trouble with an usher. I did have this one idiotic coke vendor leading the Let's Go Yankees chant once in my section, I swear I almost punched that guy right in the face.

"Today, it's like there is rock bottom, fifty feet of crap, and then me."
Rachel Green understands how I feel about the Orioles.

by Stacey on Sep 7, 2007 10:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That Coke vendor should've been fired on the spot

"Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crowbar once a day."

by spike2131 on Sep 7, 2007 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I saw a coke vendor

doing the same thing. Did he seem (and I'm not trying to be an ass here) mildly retarded and look kinda like Forrest Whitaker?

by Jonnypops on Sep 7, 2007 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

AHAHAHAHA YES

That is TOTALLY him. I was going to say that the looked a little retarded but I didn't want to be offensive.

I was at the game with a Yankee fan and even she was appalled. She was like, "WHAT is going on here? This is just wrong on so many levels." The game we were at Rodrigo Lopez was pitching and this same vendor was defending Lopez to every Orioles fan even while he was leading the Yankee fans in cheers, so we figured maybe Roddy got him the job and started calling him "Rodrigo's retarded cousin."

"Today, it's like there is rock bottom, fifty feet of crap, and then me."
Rachel Green understands how I feel about the Orioles.

by Stacey on Sep 7, 2007 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A coke vendor?

I knew the drug problems were bad, but at Camden Yards...come on.

"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job." -Brooks Robinson

by exitfare on Sep 7, 2007 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was there last night section 76 row BB

Yes Millars ball hit just out of reach for my second HR ball in as many years( fat guy blocked a leaping catch)anyway!

The ushers do suck, we had this punk O's fan screaming F this and F that suck my you know what with 3 little girls in front of him, a half dozen little boys(by little I'm talking under 10) when the mom of the girls ask him to stop he said " why don't take your Fucking kids back to boston" I turn and stared and the sissy didn't say anything else, until leaving when he thought he could shoot off at the mouth while walking out with the other hundred or so people. well when I stop and walked up to him he got behind his little girl fried and said " If you touch me I'll sue" WHAT A PUSSY! It was so bad my 9 year old was laughing at him for be a sissy right in front of him.

I HATE DRUNK ASSHOLES! WHETHER THEY'RE O'S FANS,REDSOX FANS OR YANKEE FANS

The other thing - is Jay Patton almost look like he was in tears in the outfield when he threw the ball in from left to first base line. he look as if he wish the season was over. Can't blame him

PS I did get 8 balls in BP!

by merdon1332000 on Sep 7, 2007 1:37 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

excuse the smelling

and grammer think faster then the finger

by merdon1332000 on Sep 7, 2007 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think there are two reasons:

Peter Angelos is consistent in catering to BoSox and Yanks fans, so why not the ushers too?
They probably get paid shit to deal with a bunch of drunk assholes. I'm not surprised they're surly.

by pipkin on Sep 7, 2007 3:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

one time i heard

a stadium employee (not an usher necessarily but on the way out at the eutaw ticket gate area) refer to OPACY as fenway south. and not in a joking or even botter manner. it was more like "i hope you all enjoyed your day at fenway south"

this was obviously at a sox/o's game

by Lou on Sep 8, 2007 2:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs