Is it Okay to Wear a Glove to a Baseball Game?

[Elster88]

What do you think?

[Guest cooby]

For crying out loud! Don't try to catch it barehanded (I read that wrong at first, btw!)

Add that to your lists of dont's. Don't jump into the net behind home plate, etc...

[MFS62]

Of course its ok to wear a glove. You don't want to look like a schmuck if you muff an easy one in full view of a national viewing audience.

Later

[Elster88]

I'll agree with that.

[Willets Point]

When you sit in the type of seats I usually end up in, a glove looks pretty ridiculous, but I don't see why not.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Bring the glove. Play catch before the game with some kids. And if you're sitting in an area where foul balls may be hit, wear it and keep an eye out for potential web gem moments (in other words, hold a beer in your other hand and don't spill anything while making the catch <g>).

[Guest sharpie]

The last thing I want to do during a game is wear a glove. Interferes with the beer drinking, the score keeping, the fingered repositioning of outfielders. Kids can wear gloves, however. Provided they are in good seats.

[patchyfogg]

Hell no. If you're an adult, you can afford the $5 (or so) that a ball costs. As much as we hate it, childhood does end.

[Theoldmole]

I voted three. Leave the gloves to the kids. Foul balls are more important to them, or should be.

[Guest sharpie]

If you do happen to catch a ball, give it to a kid f'chrissake.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I actually think of having the glove as protecting the people around you.

I wouldn't know what to do if a foul ball came my way - I'd love it if someone would grab the thing and prevent it from coming at me.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Replace "High School" with "8th grade", and there you go.

They grow up so fast...

[Benjamin Grimm]

I voted High School, but I was thinking "Fifth Grade."

[Zvon]

I have to admit I usually still cart my glove along.

When I was a kid at Shea this foul liner off Buddy Harrelsons bat went thru my hands and smacked this other kid right upside the head.

We were all jumpin and reachin for the drive and the other kid was just sittin there, not even lookin and.........SMACK.

Carried my glove to games ever since, even if I sat nosebleed.

[nymr83]

My feeling is once you can have a beer in your hand you shouldn't have a glove on your hand.
It is a bit more acceptable if you are behind the dugout than if you are in the upper deck.
Either way you should give it to a kid if you get a foul ball.

[Vic Sage]

the only reason i don't bring my glove is my own self-consciousness.

Because I still dream of catching a foul ball. Please let Patchy know that you CANNOT, in fact, buy the experience of catching your own foul ball from a major league game by purchasing a $5 baseball.

If you had an opportunity to fuck _______[name of starlet of the week], do you think staying home and masturbating to a picture of her would be an equivalent experience? [Although masturbation is sex with someone i love, so its not to be dismissed out of hand... as it were.]

Still, if i was going for a foul and some kid got in my way, i'd crush him like a bug.

[Frayed Knot]

I think that in certain seats bringing a glove should be almost mandatory.

[soupcan]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I voted High School, but I was thinking "Fifth Grade."

Yup.

[patchyfogg]

]If you had an opportunity to fuck _______[name of starlet of the week], do you think staying home and masturbating to a picture of her would be an equivalent experience? [Although masturbation is sex with someone i love, so its not to be dismissed out of hand... as it were.]

Will there be a poll on whether it's appropriate to use 1 glove to masturbate?

Catching a foul ball could never be like bedding a starlet, as bedding a starlet means that you're actively part of the game. In fact, you're the star. In catching a foul ball, you're merely getting something the actual players are throwing away, anyway. Sloppy seconds, if you will. In catching a foul ball, you are a free rider. In bedding the starlet, you are the rider.

[Gwreck]

OlerudOwned wrote: Replace "High School" with "8th grade", and there you go.

Bingo. Although this one doesn't bother me quite as much as the morons who insist on doing the wave when the team is leading by fewer than 10 runs.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Here's one thing for which I'm grateful:

I've never yet seen anyone masturbate immediately after catching a foul ball.

I guess it's only a matter of time, though.

[patchyfogg]

]Here's one thing for which I'm grateful: I've never yet seen anyone masturbate immediately after catching a foul ball. I guess it's only a matter of time, though.

That's just because the Mets bullpen at Shea is in fair territory. Otherwise, David Cone would fit. But, alas, the glove don't fit, so we must acquit.

[seawolf17]

Vic Sage wrote: the only reason i don't bring my glove is my own self-consciousness. Because I still dream of catching a foul ball. Please let Patchy know that you CANNOT, in fact, buy the experience of catching your own foul ball from a major league game by purchasing a $5 baseball. Still, if i was going for a foul and some kid got in my way, i'd crush him like a bug.

Thank you, Vic. I was beginning to think I was the only person who felt that way; I was afraid to post. But I got your back now.

[Vic Sage]

word.
peace out, brudda.

[Theoldmole]

] Still, if i was going for a foul and some kid got in my way, i'd crush him like a bug.

I saw this happen once, at Fenway, when I was a kid. Not the kid that it happened to. But it was scary nonetheless.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]Bingo. Although this one doesn't bother me quite as much as the morons who insist on doing the wave when the team is leading by fewer than 10 runs.

I feel about the wave the way that cooby feels about people who call her up to remind her about her doctor appointments.

[Willets Point]

People would stop starting the wave if the rest of us stopped participating. I call for an anti-wave sit-in!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I haven't stood for the wave in years, and I actively mock those who do.

The wave hasn't been cool since the Queen halfheartedly participated in it in The Naked Gun.

[Guest cooby]

ScarletKnight41 wrote: ]Bingo. Although this one doesn't bother me quite as much as the morons who insist on doing the wave when the team is leading by fewer than 10 runs. I feel about the wave the way that cooby feels about people who call her up to remind her about her doctor appointments.

I still can't believe that happened 15 freaking minutes after I typed that

[seawolf17]

I hate the Wave. Hate it with the passion of a thousand fires. But try as you might, unless you buy out a whole section, you can't stop it, because there are kids (and, incredibly, adults) in every section who think standing up and whoooing like morons is a great idea. Then, when someone who was too busy whoooing with their arms in the air gets smacked in the head by a foul line drive, I'm supposed to think it's some kind of tragedy. Sorry, but no.