Post by Rufus-T on Jun 13, 2021 19:59:24 GMT
Many Yankees fans in NJ.
Just like when I was in Camden Yard. It felt like Yankees Stadium. I felt comfortable wearing my Yankees cap there. Different story when I visited Wrigley Field. I had to hide my cap like hiding my MAGA cap.
In fact, the single worst incident I ever saw in person was at Shea Stadium back in 2008 where two Phillies fans got into a crazy brawl....with each other. It was as perplexing then as it is now, given that the Phillies were in 1st at the time, the Mets were faltering, and the Phillies were winning the game. Very bizarre.
Another time in Philadelphia, I saw two Giants fans who were easily the most obnoxious drunk assholes I've ever seen. Completely unprovoked, they were just berating everyone around them, the players on the field (including Giants players) and the umps. Security booted them by the 3rd inning.
Once at at Yankees-Red Sox playoff game, I saw Yankees fans throw beer (like, 10 people at once) at a Red Sox fan who was just sitting there minding his own business. Those beers ain't cheap, no way am I tossing mine.
But other than that, I've really never seen anything too bad (in any sport). Yeah, people get drunk and act like meatheads, and an occasional beer gets thrown, but that's really it and I've been to at least 500 baseball games in my life if I had to guess (probably more), with 400 of those being in Queens, 100 or so hockey games (mostly in the Coliseum), and a dozen or so football games (Giants Stadium, Superdome, and some college games). In the 2015 NLCS against the Cubs, there were plenty of Cubs fans at Citi. We befriended a group of them sitting next to us, shared beers with them and just enjoyed a great game. There's no need to start berating others, I just never understood that and while I'm not naive to think it doesn't happen, it's not an everyday occurrence.
So I don't think you'd have an issue adorned in a Yankees hat at Wrigley, or anywhere really. And you don't strike me as the kind of guy who would get bombed and start antagonizing those around you so you'd be fine.
THAT SAID, one thing I wouldn't do is attend an elimination game or a Game 7 on the road because if your team wins and you have to walk out of there with 50,000 people who just watched their team get eliminated, all it takes is one drunk asshole to see you and take out his frustrations on you.
I think most people I came across, at least 95% I would say, are nice people. Usually they won't bother you. Maybe I am just lucky. When I was at Camden Yard, seemingly half of the fans wear Yankees apparel. At Wrigley Field, everyone wears Cubs apparel. Cubs just came off the championship season.
That game I attended the Mets was in town against the Cubs. Seth Lugo started. Mets had something like a 5-0 lead and the Cubs scored like 14 unanswered runs. Funny that people around us high fived with us like we are Cubs fan. We left the game early when it gotten brutally bad for the Mets.