When the Padres played the Dodgers in this seasons playoffs they wouldn’t sell tickets to people who came from many post codes in the Los Angeles area.
This season the mrs and I enjoyed a game in Dc at Nats park when they played the Mets. Mets killed them 9/0. We cheered for the Mets but weren’t obnoxious, wore our Mets gear and nobody said boo to us….
A LOT of people at Nationals Park could not care less about the game. They are there to drink $10+ beers, do tik toks or generally have something "cool" to do.
Went there a few seasons ago when they played L.A. Had my Dodgers cap on, never felt threatened. Had some comments but they were mostly good natured.
As an aside, we had a group of three families, all with kids. The seats behind me had three early twenties females in them with a seat between them. Then their boyfriends showed up. Three "bro" looking types.
As soon as they sat down, it was obvious they were HIGHLY intoxicated. The one directly behind me was telling the women how he had "drank a whole bottle of whiskey" before they came. Literally every sentence he said contained some version of the word "fuck" and he was loud.
I turned to him after an inning and said in a quiet voice, "We all paid for these seats like you did. There are a lot of women and kids here. Calm down or you and I will have a problem. Are we clear?"
The other two dad's, both Squaddies, looked at him and nodded after I finished. I was actually surprised, instead of him kicking off about it he just said, "Yes sir. I'm sorry, sir."
"Thank you. Enjoy the game."