"Visible altercations"

[Fatter than Joey]

How can Joe Morgan be greater than anybody? Are you talking about height?

 

I was referring to wisdom, although height would also work. They are about equal when it comes to intelligibility.

[Fatter than Joey]

"... calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."

 

That's why they all got Yosted.

[sargennm]

From the Brewer JS blog

 

 

Have you ever been upset with a boorish fan inside Miller Park? Sure you have.

Now the Milwaukee Brewers have unveiled a new service where you can quietly and instantly fink on the fan with your cellphone.

Fans can report misconduct by texting BREWERS, followed by a space, then their seat/ballpark location and specific concern to 41513. After the message is received, Miller Park personnel will monitor and send a staff person to investigate.

"Media and fan surveys already indicate that the Miller Park fan experience is one of the best in baseball, but this text message service offers our fans another amenity to enhance the atmosphere," said Rick Schlesinger, executive vice president for business operations. "We want to ensure that all of our customers enjoy their visit to Miller Park and are free of concerns related to fan misconduct."

The program is called "Play Nice - Be a Friendly Fan."

 

Hopefully this will help with some of the problems fan on the board have encountered.

 

Does anyone know if the Brewers have considered playing Saturday Cub games earlier in the day. I live in St. Louis, and the Cards play many of their Saturday games at noon. By starting so early, they get around the Fox blackout rules. Wouldn't this cut down on the level of pre-partying boorish fans on both sides could do before the game?

[Invader3K]

This texting program sounds interesting, I just hope it doesn't become something for anonymous fans to tattle on fellow attendees for really minute kind of stuff. Hopefully the Brewers will use some discretion and common sense in regards to which complaints they follow up on.

[Tisko]

The texting program is interesting, but I doubt it will work. I've read that little blurb two times and I could not tell you who to text what. Unless they continually post the number on the jumbo screen I doubt it makes a noticeable dent. Better than just ignoring the problem though.

[sargennm]

MP's not the first stadium to try it. I think it will work. It's too cumbersome to bother with if you are just slightly annoyed, but could be helpful getting rid of the real pains.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=4012452

[hawing]

This texting program sounds interesting, I just hope it doesn't become something for anonymous fans to tattle on fellow attendees for really minute kind of stuff.

My very first thought, upon seeing the announcement on the videoboard, was that fans might prank-text the Brewers to try to get their friends in trouble. But per the ESPN link, it doesn't sound like that's been too much of a problem.

[jjkoestler]

Seems like a great idea to me. Do you they post the number during the game?

[hawing]

Seems like a great idea to me. Do you they post the number during the game?

The videoboard announcement includes the text number.