What's the strangest/funniest/wildest non-baseball thing at USCF

[knightni]

My most recent experience was at my last game there in September.

 

It wasn't funny necessarily, mostly just a "wow" moment.

 

 

Pregame Sox vs A's, I'm up in my seats in the UD front row watching A's batting practice.

 

Some lady down in the prime box seats with her all-access pass stuff around her neck like a rock concert is chattin away with her friend.

 

Foul ball off of an Oakland guy's bat comes screaming towards her. Guys yell "look out!" She looks up, "Whaaaa...?"

 

right in the face with the ball.

 

She's down like Joe Frazier.

 

Security comes down, helps her find her chin and escorts her away. She never came back.

 

Now, hopefully she's okay today, but wow, my friends and I see this happening in slow motion and couldn't believe that she wasn't paying attention AT ALL to the field of play.

 

What stories can you share?

[bschmaranz]

Saw some asswipe hit a 70 year old lady in the face with a flying (full) 20 oz. Pepsi bottle. I would file that one under "wildest".

[2nd_city_saint787]

I feel bad for saying this buttttt there was a fight that broke out up in the cheap seats in my section well as one of the guys was being escorted out i decided that since everyone was standing and looking at this guy if something were to be thrown at him nothing would have been traced back to me. so i threw a cup in the direction of the guy and no lie hit a pregnant lady with it.... another strange story, after a game my buddy challenged a cubs fan to race 2 steps after he asked i stepped off a curb wrong and hurt his ankle.

[Princess Dye]

When the cars drive out onto the outfield in between innings at USCF, i start thinking i'm on a different planet

 

and start wishing i was as well

 

 

 

I was at Wrigley once when a mom in the row behind me dropped her baby into my row. I assume this was a mother.

Edited November 19, 2009 by Princess Dye

[Jimbo's Drinker]

I laugh cause that was one of my jobs while I was working at the Sox, one time my car stalled and we had to push it back in.

 

When the cars drive out onto the outfield in between innings at USCF, i start thinking i'm on a different planet

 

and start wishing i was as well

 

 

 

I was at Wrigley once when a mom in the row behind me dropped her baby into my row. I assume this was a mother.

 

[Princess Dye]

When I was an usher there I had to dance on the dugout in the 7th

 

Fortunately they have pros now

[knightni]

I have another one.

 

 

I buy tickets online to see a game a few years ago. Sox vs Twins.

 

Turns into Buehrle vs. Santana. Which is nice.

 

But, the tickets turn out to be in the left field corner, near the foul pole, under the edge of the suites.

 

So, we're sitting there, watching Buehrle speed through the game, when a guy down at the end of my row starts screaming and cursing.

 

I look over and see him yelling up at these 3 women in the suites. They're hanging over the railing with their beer cups.

 

Every time they cheered, they'd slosh their beer cup down on the guys in the row.

 

The guy can't stand it anymore, he grabs his almost full beer cup and heaves it up towards the suites above.

 

Of course, being drunk himself, he totally misses and hits it off of the facing of the suite deck.

 

The beer just sprays all down and coats everyone within 4 rows of this guy, including me and my sister, who I had brought to her first Sox game.

 

Needless to say, I walked back to my hotel smelling like Miller Lite and that moron got a swift exit from the park.

[RibbieRubarb]

My buddy and I asked two Nuns, who were sitting in our season ticket seats, to please leave and find their own seats on an opening day.

 

We then said to each other: "I wonder if God is going to punish us for that?"

We said: "Nahhh"

 

The year was 1994.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry guys...

[ChiliIrishHammock24]

Well, the Sox/Cubs fight in 2006 was pretty cool.

 

As for off the field stuff, I saw a lady get nailed with a foul ball, and then taken away on a stretcher.

[ChiliIrishHammock24]

I got another 2......

 

I was in the skybox for a game, walked out at the end of the game, and saw Scott Merkin standing outside my box on his cell phone, I waved and said "What's up Scott", and smiled and waved back and continued his phone call.

 

And then last year I was sitting right next to the bullpen. The whole game I was trying to get Linebrink, Jenks, and Thornton to notice me or give me a ball saying "tomorrow is my birthday!!" (and it really was). They never paid me any attention. Then as Jenks was starting to go back down to the bench after throwing in the pen, my buddy and I yell out a joke to him. I figured he was ignoring us, but as soon as we said the punchline he looked up at us and starting laughing. My whole section enjoyed the joke and were shocked that Jenks acknowledged us and laughed at the joke.

 

Poreda was also in the pen and I said "Aaron! You are my favorite pitcher!" I was not expecting him to turn around and say "Thanks buddy". I then had no idea what to say once he gave me attention, so I just blurted out "We are friends on Facebook!" and he gave me a thumbs up. lol.

[iamshack]

Then as Jenks was starting to go back down to the bench after throwing in the pen, my buddy and I yell out a joke to him. I figured he was ignoring us, but as soon as we said the punchline he looked up at us and starting laughing. My whole section enjoyed the joke and were shocked that Jenks acknowledged us and laughed at the joke.

 

So what was the joke?

[ChiliIrishHammock24]

So what was the joke?

 

It was a laffy taffy joke that I had read on the way to the game...

 

What do you call a bear in the rain?

 

A DRIZZLY bear!

[Stocking]

I was at a game when the "Kiss Cam" was on the Jumbotron. There was this younger guy with his girl, just waiting for the camera to turn on him. When it does, she goes in for the the kiss and he pushes her head into his crotch. she fights it so her head winds up bopping up and down. The camera guy quickly turns the camera and they cut to another camera, but not in time. It was f***ing priceless. I was with my girl at the time, pure shock on her face. The crowd cheered, please tell me someone else was at this game. maybe '05 or 'maybe '04?

[Swingandalongonetoleft]

I used to hold tix in 522 row 1. It was 2007 when nothing was going right on the field, and someone at least a dozen rows up showed his displeasure by chucking a bottle of beer which ended up hitting a little girl a few rows behind me. The guy actually tried to resist security when they came for him. Assclown.

[Rooftop Shots]

I was at a game when the "Kiss Cam" was on the Jumbotron. There was this younger guy with his girl, just waiting for the camera to turn on him. When it does, she goes in for the the kiss and he pushes her head into his crotch. she fights it so her head winds up bopping up and down. The camera guy quickly turns the camera and they cut to another camera, but not in time. It was f***ing priceless. I was with my girl at the time, pure shock on her face. The crowd cheered, please tell me someone else was at this game. maybe '05 or 'maybe '04?

I was at that same game with the Pastor of my church that I go to and we both saw it. Can't even begin to explain his reaction.

[Rooftop Shots]

When I was in little league, our team went to a game at Old Comiskey. The coach got hit in the side of the face with a big wad of chewed-up pizza. He wasn't very happy!

[Rooftop Shots]

Can't remeber the year, but one of my buddie's pet peeves was that he couldn't stand it when there was a pitching change, and they would open up the center field gates and bring the truck onto the warning track. The game that we went to, it didn't happen. In the second inning, a home run was hit and it took out the truck's windshiled.

[Quin]

Poreda was also in the pen and I said "Aaron! You are my favorite pitcher!" I was not expecting him to turn around and say "Thanks buddy". I then had no idea what to say once he gave me attention, so I just blurted out "We are friends on Facebook!" and he gave me a thumbs up. lol.

 

Almost the same thing happened to me, but I said he was one of my favorite pitchers, since Buehrle takes that title.

 

Saw some fans yell to Pods from left field they love him and him wave and smile.

 

Dodgers fan telling Matt Kemp to play more shallow, Kemp look back and shrug the fan off. Promptly dived missing a ball in shallow centerfield (theshirt 13 inning craze fest). Also heard Michael Jackson died.

 

Talked to an usher who I've seen around the stadium at multiple other games, who then had a Cubs fan removed who was harassing my mom.

 

Had stadium staff speed create custom t-shirts for my dads anniversary and my brothers birthday.

 

Brother and I got free 300 level seats on his birthday and saw Thome's possibly final career HR.

 

Game 1 of 2006 and souvenir WS rings.

 

That's all I got for now.

 

Edit: When I was little, my current high school's marching band (with brother in it) played on the field. The current librarian chaperoned and had them tape pieces of paper in LF to seats so it spelled out GO SOX in big letters.

 

Currently begging band directors to make this happen again.

Edited November 20, 2009 by Quinarvy

[knightni]

May 22, 2006.

 

Frank Thomas' first game back at USCF as a member of the A's.

 

Soxtalk/WSI had a patio party, Jon Garland welcomed Thomas back by allowing him to cream 2 HRs, Ozuna wins it for the Sox with a walk-off bunt single.

 

But, what does everyone remember that was there?

 

That damn squirrel.

 

 

 

[ChiliIrishHammock24]

I was there for Beckham first ML hit vs. the A's.

 

Do I win?

[ChiliIrishHammock24]

Dodgers fan telling Matt Kemp to play more shallow, Kemp look back and shrug the fan off. Promptly dived missing a ball in shallow centerfield (theshirt 13 inning craze fest). Also heard Michael Jackson died.

 

I was at the game. I remember getting a text saying MJ died, and we listened to the news on the drive back. Was a day game I believe.

[southsider2k5]

May 22, 2006.

 

Frank Thomas' first game back at USCF as a member of the A's.

 

Soxtalk/WSI had a patio party, Jon Garland welcomed Thomas back by allowing him to cream 2 HRs, Ozuna wins it for the Sox with a walk-off bunt single.

 

But, what does everyone remember that was there?

 

That damn squirrel.

 

I remember the people sitting in teh front row singing the Sesame Street song with Huston Street warming up, and then serving up the game.

[chetkincaid]

It was a laffy taffy joke that I had read on the way to the game...

 

What do you call a bear in the rain?

 

A DRIZZLY bear!

 

 

Jenks laughed at THAT?

 

TRADE HIM!!!!

[NorthSideSox72]

I've got a great one, but it shows my age a bit. It was also a non-baseball thing, that ended up effecting the game on the field.

 

I was at a game at the old park, probably in the mid-80's or so. It was seat cushion day, which they don't do anymore, and this game is the reason why. Something happened on the field where an ump made a call against the Sox. Crowd booed, and the manager (was either LaRussa or Fregosi at the time, I don't recall which) rushes the field to argue. As they are arguing, we see one guy in the UD hurl his seat cushion like a frisbee, which lands right on the infield. Almost instantly, hundreds more of these seat cushion frisbees go flying onto the field - it looked like it was snowing seat cushions (they were white with the old batter man logo).

 

Game is then stopped by the umpires, and the PA announcer comes on and says if we continue to do this, the Sox will have to forfeit the game. So it stopped after a few minutes, they picked up all the seat cushions, and continued play. A few straggler ones flew onto the field at other points in the game, for instance after a Jerry Hairston home run, as I recall, but nothing too bad.

 

[shipps]

 

Well I remember one time when this guy s*** his pants and had to get his family and leave during like the 3rd inning. The kids were crying Daddy why are we leaving we just got here? And you could smell the stench in the whole section. The guy seemed really mad more than anything.

 

And then last year there was a pop up on the first base line into the 5th row and I was sitting behind the dugout with my little cousin who is 5 and a ball hit off a kids mitt directly into the eyeball of this old man. He hunched over and blood started pulsating out of his eye onto his wife. It scarred me and many others for life. It wasnt his skin bleeding it was his actual eye shooting out blood all over this poor old lady.