MLB should ban alcohol at the Rogers Center for the rest of the postseason

[ChuckS]

If this is the bar you set for banning alcohol from a sports venue, there would be no alcohol sold at any sports venue.

A guy might DIE because he went to a Ravens game last weekend.

Exactly. Also, if you ban alcohol inside you are just going to increase drinking outside. It's a not a problem solver.

Prohibition should have taught us something.

[Ruzious]

They apparently banned the cans from the upper deck after last year's incident. It should be stadium-wide now.

Although there were plenty of jerks in the stands, as there are anywhere, this case was one person who threw the can on the field, who should and will be dealt with in the criminal justice system. That's enough here.

What's missing, though, is punishment for a team when significant numbers of their fans disrupt a game because they don't like an umpire's ruling. As happened last year in Toronto, and IIRC with a similar incident in Atlanta during the 2012 Wild Card game. The fans threw stuff on the field, delaying the game, freezing the visiting team's pitcher, etc., and the home team completely got away with it. The league should step in and take away a draft pick or something when that happens. Right now there is no deterrent. For instance, if the can throwing had happened in the 11th inning against Reimold and the umpires called interference, AND THEN the fans flipped out and delayed the game, causing Ubaldo to get cold and lose his electric stuff, the fans would have gotten away with it under current precedent.

Exactly - no cans seems like the obvious thing to do. Thing is - they should have already done this years ago. Wasn't it just a few years ago that the same thing happened - that a Toronto fan threw something at an O's LFer? Since they haven't done anything about, MLB should step in and tell them - NO CANS - and fine the hell out of their owner for this incident and any more incidents as long as they still let them use cans.

[tntoriole]

This is the ONLY ballpark in MLB still allowed to sell beer in these huge cans. Why? If a player is injured in an episode now after MLB has clearly not allowed this at other stadiums, then Toronto ownership and MLB will be sued for millions by the injured player. Manfred has no guts if he does not require this at Toronto.

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[tntoriole]

Exactly. Also, if you ban alcohol inside you are just going to increase drinking outside. It's a not a problem solver.

Prohibition should have taught us something.

Alcohol is not the issue. The large metal containers sold by the team's stadium is the issue. Alcohol can be consumed just as it is now in 29/30 parks that do not sell it in metal containers.

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[O's are Legends]

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[kelsey59]

In the Jay's statement about the incident they are going to ban cans and bottles for the playoffs.

[Why Not?]

Alcohol is not the issue. The large metal containers sold by the team's stadium is the issue. Alcohol can be consumed just as it is now in 29/30 parks that do not sell it in metal containers.

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You could probably sell javelins and slingshots at the ballpark with no problems. People throw stuff because they get drunk.

[weams]

Exactly. Also, if you ban alcohol inside you are just going to increase drinking outside. It's a not a problem solver.

Prohibition should have taught us something.

Just ban drinking in Canada. I don't care what they do in the good old USA.

[Tbone83]

Just ban drinking in Canada. I don't care what they do in the good old USA.

Then they would have nothing else to do besides eat doughnuts.

[tntoriole]

You could probably sell javelins and slingshots at the ballpark with no problems. People throw stuff because they get drunk.

True. But if they are drunk and throw a plastic cup..then it is just littering.

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[Why Not?]

True. But if they are drunk and throw a plastic cup..then it is just littering.

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Eventually, they throw other drunk people.

[tntoriole]

Eventually, they throw other drunk people.

That would have been funnier than the full beer can.

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