Blue Jays home opener: Beer sales restricted in upper deck

[LittleOzzy]

Fans who purchased cheap seats will also be saving money on suds Monday during the Blue Jays home opener at Rogers Centre.

The team is rationing beer buying for 500 level patrons — one drink at a time — in the hopes of cutting back on drunken brawls in the nose bleeds.

Fans in the lower levels will be able to purchase the normal two drinks each time they line up or place orders from their seats.

The game against Boston sold out in record time as buzz over the team hit levels not seen in this city for years.

The team began the season 2-1 in Cleveland over the Easter Weekend. Youngster Henderson Alvarez is slated to start for the Jays against lefty Felix Doubront.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/ ... -deck?bn=1

[satyr9]

While I totally hate those punk little <expletive deleted> doucheholes that get wasted and act (Please Use More Appropriate Word) up there, I cannot stand this rule. It just means your average fan can't go and take turns grabbing the beers in between innings and won't curtail their behaviour in the slightest.

[Kaizen]

It is better than doing nothing. Boohoo you people will actually have to get off your butt every time you want to waste your money on beer.

[vaff87]

Is it just me, or do you have to be a pretty giant jackass to get in a brawl at a baseball game?

[baulderdash77]

Is it just me, or do you have to be a pretty giant jackass to get in a brawl at a baseball game?

During the home opener it has gotten crazy in the past. Last year I saw 3 fights in the sections around me.

[Kaizen]

There was also the year people were throwing things on the field and Leyland pulled his players off the field. Young people are crazy and stupid. It is a matter of how far these morons will push things tonight and not a matter of if anything will happen.

[dillio]

I don't see how this solves anything. It is an annoyance on people that wish to buy drinks for buddies without really stopping the people that want to get hammered and get rowdy. Those people can still:
a) line up multiple times
b) sneak in liquor
c) arrive drunk

[Steve Urkel]

I always wondered why they sold the single shot bottles at the LCBO, then I went to baseball game, So easy to sneak in.

[Attonitus]

It is better than doing nothing. Boohoo you people will actually have to get off your butt every time you want to waste your money on beer.

There was also the year people were throwing things on the field and Leyland pulled his players off the field. Young people are crazy and stupid. It is a matter of how far these morons will push things tonight and not a matter of if anything will happen.

Somebody's got a case of the Mondays. Seriously though, you are a sad bitter old man.

[SharoneWright]

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[Relentless88]

There was also the year people were throwing things on the field and Leyland pulled his players off the field. Young people are crazy and stupid. It is a matter of how far these morons will push things tonight and not a matter of if anything will happen.

[Al_Oliver]

There was also the year people were throwing things on the field and Leyland pulled his players off the field. Young people are crazy and stupid. It is a matter of how far these morons will push things tonight and not a matter of if anything will happen.

how about young people are more inclined to do stupid or crazy stuff?

[dillio]

I always wondered why they sold the single shot bottles at the LCBO, then I went to baseball game, So easy to sneak in.

When I was younger it was all about the mickeys or the 200 ml bottles.

$8-13 for booze
$5-6 for a massive soda
= cost effective inebriation

The last time I was in the 200 section, the bathroom stalls there were full of 200-375 mL bottles. I don't recall it being that bad in the 100s, but I would imagine the 500 section is even worse.

[Parataxis]

It is better than doing nothing. Boohoo you people will actually have to get off your butt every time you want to waste your money on beer.

If they made it a blanket policy, I'd be more inclined to agree (although extra security would probably be a better step instead. It's a false dichotomy to suggest that they either do this or nothing.)

But that they're dividing it by class, is where they lose me.

[s e n s i]

fights between two sloshed jackasses who likely aren't even true jays fans tend to occur exclusively in the 500 level though, where there also is less security personnel. i've sat in the 100s dozens of times in the last 2-3 years and have never seen a fight break out...so i don't think they're dividing it by class.

[Mattd97]

theyll still get their alcohol and be stupid if thats who they are. a little bit of secuirty goes a long long way

[Strav]

that policy failed everyone in the 500 section tonight. For one, more people showed up to the game drunk, and the long lineups agitated a number of people to the point where fight after fight broke out. Added to that, actual security relaxed as a result thinking the policy was enough to help deter any drunkenness.