We all go to games to have some time where we can relax and have some fun. Enjoying some warm weather and a baseball game is one of the best recipes for a great night of fun. That great night of fun can be enhanced or ruined by the fans around you at a game, and today’s stereotypical fan could swing the tables either way in an instant.
Stereotypical fan of the day: The Drunk Fan
The drunk fan can be the most obnoxious person you have ever seen or they can be the one who sparks excitement and laughter. Depending on which type of drunk fan appears can determine if you go home wishing you had just turned on the TV and been a couch potato that night, or if you go home with a years’ worth of stories to tell everyone about how much fun you had at the game.
The Obnoxious Drunk Fan
There are some people who are annoying at a baseball games to begin with, but when you include some alcohol it makes a bad fan even worse.
They begin to believe that every call the umpire makes is wrong regardless of which team it benefits. Every coaching decision is a joke in their mind. Nothing is off limits to their ranting throughout the game including the choice of who the mascot is for the team. To put it simply, the more alcohol the drink, the smarter they think they are.
I can’t limit this fan to just males or just females because I have seen the worst from both sexes in this particular area. I’ve seen drunk males at games suddenly get the courage to yell some vulgar expressions at young men who are twice their size and work out for a living. When security has to refrain you for your own safety you are probably the obnoxious drunk fan.
I’ve also seen female fans who were drunk suddenly assume that because they are drunk that they must look really cute to the players. Even players in the worst slump of their career has standards for picking a slump buster.
The Life of the Stands
Not all drunk fans are obnoxious. In fact one of my favorite hockey games that I ever went to was made great because of the drunk fan sitting five rows behind me. At the start of the game he was funny, but once the alcohol started kicking in he just flat out became hilarious.
The drunk fan who is fun is just sober enough to know what lines not to cross but also knowing what the other fans want to hear to make them laugh. A drunk fan is even funnier if they are able to get a player on the field to laugh or even interact with them during a game. I’ve seen left fielders laughing so hard because of their interactions with a drunk fan that they are hardly paying attention to the game.
The Fine Line
There is a fine line between the two types of drunk fans that you see, and usually that line is crossed when the fan forgets that baseball games should be enjoyable and safe for everyone regardless of age, and when they don’t make it about themselves. It is a hard line to walk and being drunk doesn’t make it easier to walk in a straight line.
Previous posts in the fan series:
The ‘I never played but I’m good enough to play in the majors’ fan
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