Excessive Drinking at Baseball Game Concerns Fans

The home opener for any baseball team and their fans is an exciting game to kick off the new season. However, for the Toronto Blue Jays, excitement has given way to excessive drinking and an aggressive atmosphere that has many Jays fans thinking twice before purchasing tickets.

Laura Tilley was one fan who used to look forward to the first home game of the season, making it an annual tradition to attend. But about a decade ago, she remembers a shift in the way some fans were conducting themselves, many were drunk and out of control. She was willing to put up with this change for a few years, but after witnessing a 10-man fight in her section in 2006 or 2007 that security was slow to stop, Tilley decided it was no longer worth it to be in the stands on opening day at Rogers Centre.

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