Non-journalists cheering in press box. Should I say something?

[Kevin Morales]

Definitely say something to the media relations person. You're trying to do your job. And who bring a "friend?"

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Politely mention that you are working and that they can take their celebrations, taunts, silly string and confetti somewhere else.

If it happens again after that, have a little heart-to-heart ...

When it comes to minor-league hockey, just make sure the league's scorekeepers keep their carbonated beverages far away from your laptop.

 

[slappy4428]

Busch Stadium press box in St. Louis, 1988 or 1989.

I'm a visiting writer. Guy sitting in the row right behind our section starts cheering the Cardinals at every turn. Giants PR director turns around and says, "No cheering in the press box."

Guy continues to cheer. Giants PR guy turns around and says, "Get the heck out of here." Man responds, "I have a right to cheer if I want." PR guy gets Cardinals PR guy, who gingerly tells the man he really has to leave if he wants to cheer.

As he walks away, we can read the back of the guy's T-shirt. It read, "Gov. Ashcroft."

It was John Ashcroft, then the governor of Missouri, destined to be the civil-rights-hating attorney general of the U.S.

And the same candidate who lost to a dead guy ...

One of the truly great moments in U.S. Republican Politics

 

[pressmurphy]

Definitely say something to the media relations person. You're trying to do your job. And who bring a "friend?"

You're trying to do your job -- and the media relations guy needs to do his. Make sure he knows there's a problem. It will cut way down on future problems.

 

[Overrated]

As he walks away, we can read the back of the guy's T-shirt. It read, "Gov. Ashcroft."

Really? He was a governor and walked around with a t-shirt with his name on the back?

What a goober. Did it have a number, too? Like 69, or something?

 

[Overrated]

As he walks away, we can read the back of the guy's T-shirt. It read, "Gov. Ashcroft."

Really? He was a governor and walked around with a t-shirt with his name on the back?

What a goober. Did it have a number, too? Like 69, or something?

I think that's Mel Brooks, but I don't get it. Is that supposed to be like a pancake-headed rabbit or something? What am I missing?

 

[93Devil]

I was in a press box for an Arizona Cardinals preseason football game in the 1990s and there was a few claps coming from the back row after the Cards picked up a first down or some shirt like that. Mind you, claps, not even cheers.

Tim Tyers, the old warhorse of Phoenix media at the time spins around from the dizzying front row of the Sun Devil Press Box and yells, "Who the fork is cheering in the pressbox?"

Bill Bidwill stopped clapping, lowered his head and walked out.

 

[93Devil]

As he walks away, we can read the back of the guy's T-shirt. It read, "Gov. Ashcroft."

Really? He was a governor and walked around with a t-shirt with his name on the back?

What a goober. Did it have a number, too? Like 69, or something?

I think that's Mel Brooks, but I don't get it. Is that supposed to be like a pancake-headed rabbit or something? What am I missing?

I didn't get a harumph from that guy.

 

[Overrated]

As he walks away, we can read the back of the guy's T-shirt. It read, "Gov. Ashcroft."

Really? He was a governor and walked around with a t-shirt with his name on the back?

What a goober. Did it have a number, too? Like 69, or something?

I think that's Mel Brooks, but I don't get it. Is that supposed to be like a pancake-headed rabbit or something? What am I missing?

I didn't get a harumph from that guy.

Right now, I'm as lost as JVD at a "Brevity and Clarity in Writing" seminar.

 

[93Devil]

I'm still working on my number six plan. I already have some whomping and some whoopin. I think I will have a dance at the end as well.

 

[Starman]

I'm still working on my number six plan. I already have some whomping and some whoopin. I think I will have a dance at the end as well.

You spare the women-folk??

 

[Mayfly]

Right now, I'm as lost as JVD at a "Brevity and Clarity in Writing" seminar.

Go watch "Blazing Saddles." Look at the back of Mel Brooks' coat. And when you report back, fetch me a Fat Tire.

Where the white women at?