Phillies reliever Matt Strahm piped in this week on an issue that is impacting ballparks across baseball: the timing of beer sales.
The longstanding policy across baseball had previously been that beer sales would be halted after the seventh inning. The idea behind that policy was obvious - to give fans time to sober up before traveling home from the game.
However, with new pace-of-play policies leading to quicker games, some teams have elected to alter their stadium beer policies and now serve alcohol through the eighth inning instead. The Brewers, Rangers and Diamondbacks are among teams who have changed their alcohol policy. Eventually all of the teams will.
According to this financial genius, “The reason we stopped serving in the seventh before was to give our fans time to sober up and drive home safe, correct? So now with a faster-paced game, and me just being a man of common sense, if the game is going to finish quicker, would we not move the beer sales back to the sixth inning to give our fans time to sober up? Instead, we’re going to the eighth, and now you’re putting our fans and our family at risk driving home with people who have just drank beers 22 minutes ago.
I’m not surprised. When you mess with billionaires’ dollars, they find a way to make their dollars back. My thing is, when you’re looking at the safety of your fans, that’s probably not the smartest decision to extend it into the eighth. And again, just being a common sense thinker, I think as a fan of the game, and just looking out for people, it would make more sense to stop the sales in the sixth.”
Doesn't this knucklehead know that there's a straight line
between what the team owners make and what he gets paid?
Here's a thought - shut the fuck up and throw the ball...
Here's a thought - shut the fuck up and throw the ball...
Hey, try a haircut too, it might get you to a closer's role rather than being a set-up man. Pussy!
ReplyDeleteHe's absolutely right, if your goal is fan safety. That he's willing to take a hit financially, if indirectly, says he's got some ethics. Here's a thought ... if your goal is just to soak the fans for more money and you don't give a sh*t about them getting home safely, sell the beer all the way to the end of the game and beyond, charge twice what you do now, and start handing out shots of Wild Turkey as they leave the parking lot.
ReplyDeleteConsidering how much beer costs at major league games, I was always a little envious of guys who could afford to get drunk there.
ReplyDeleteThe pitcher makes too much sense....the owners will never put up with a player who can think....no more than the government will put up with an educated populace....
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