Babies at playoff games

[TheHurl]

You can't be serious man. That baffles me. The best thing about a baseball game is seeing a 5-14 year old enjoying a baseball game. Hoping to catch a fly ball or get an autograph, asking their father questions about the game and developing a bond that will last a lifetime. It doesn't get better than that.

 

I am joking. It was mainly meant as a shot at GD and King. Some of my greatest memories are of going to sporting events as a kid. That being said I never wanted or to this day want kids of my own.

[TheHurl]

It seems like everyone these days wants to go to Thailand or has been there. I really don't have a desire to go. I'd go eventually maybe, though its not on the top of my TDL as it is for some other people. There are so many other places I'd rather visit first before going to Thailand. I heard its really touristy.

 

I'd love to see all of Asia, I don't really have a bucket list order though. Only thing I know right now is that I want to work the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018

[GD]

I am joking. It was mainly meant as a shot at GD and King. Some of my greatest memories are of going to sporting events as a kid. That being said I never wanted or to this day want kids of my own.

 

I'm good with it because between the two of us I'm more likely to remember this conversation tomorrow

 

<3

[Orgfiller]

It seems like everyone these days wants to go to Thailand or has been there. I really don't have a desire to go. I'd go eventually maybe, though its not on the top of my TDL as it is for some other people. There are so many other places I'd rather visit first before going to Thailand. I heard its really touristy.

I think you missed the joke entirely.

[Pulk_Pull]

No issue with babies attending a game, but I seriously cringe when I see they don't have ear protection.

 

While bringing a baby may hinder your experience, not covering their ears in a loud stadium is potentially damaging the babies underdeveloped ear drums. Just not cool.

[jaysblue]

I think you missed the joke entirely.

 

No I got the joke. I was just speaking of Thailand in general as a travel destination.

[Abomination]

I'd love to see all of Asia, I don't really have a bucket list order though. Only thing I know right now is that I want to work the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018

 

I've been to Thailand, Hong Kong (before the changeover), and Japan. It was when I was fairly young through, so my memory is a little foggy of a lot of it.

 

Thailand was really different. The traffic (and especially taxi drivers) are insane. Ours was going up to 140 kph in fairly dense traffic (actually caught a little air once or twice). Scared the crap out of us. I remember seeing one of the "touristy" things with crocodile shows, and performers sticking their heads in their mouths. Apparently every once in a while, it doesn't end so well, but no one lost any body parts when we were there. The other thing I remember was the pollution. If you spit, it was literally black.

 

Hong Kong was pretty cool. Very modern (cutting edge even) and clean. Even cheap accommodations were almost luxury compared to here. Got to ride one of the trains and see a bunch of the countryside. Really enjoyed it there. Dunno if it's as nice now.

 

I don't remember much about Japan, other than how crowded and expensive it was.

[jaysblue]

I'd love to see all of Asia, I don't really have a bucket list order though. Only thing I know right now is that I want to work the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018

 

I'm going to Japan in November. No baseball though unfortunately, which would have been cool!

[Brownie19]

I am joking. It was mainly meant as a shot at GD and King. Some of my greatest memories are of going to sporting events as a kid. That being said I never wanted or to this day want kids of my own.

 

Apologize for my dumness

[closetjaysfan]

The noise, the foulballs, the distractions to other fans... I wont be bringing my boy to even a regular season game until he is at least in grade school. And a playoff game? That is pretty nuts. How are they supposed to nap?

[Pulk_Pull]

The noise, the foulballs, the distractions to other fans... I wont be bringing my boy to even a regular season game until he is at least in grade school. And a playoff game? That is pretty nuts. How are they supposed to nap?

 

Haven't you ever heard the saying "That baby can nap through 50,000 road-raged Torontonians and a cold beer shower!"?

[Krylian]

I wouldn't take a baby to a ball game... But it shouldn't be because you're afraid it'll get hit with a beer can. As an adult I should expect that I won't get hit with a flying projectile (balls and bat notwithstanding)

[Brownie19]

I wouldn't take a baby to a ball game... But it shouldn't be because you're afraid it'll get hit with a beer can. As an adult I should expect that I won't get hit with a flying projectile (balls and bat notwithstanding)

 

Exactly. If some ******* showers me with beer and hits me with a beer can - I'm furious and telling security whether I'm holding a baby or a beer myself. If you're too stupid or drunk to control yourself at an amazing baseball game - go play in traffic.

[TilsonBritoFan]

This x10000.... The only reason not to bring a baby to a game is because of noise..... I don't know why anyone should have to worry about objects being thrown because under no circumstances this should not be happening.

 

Yes but its a fact that people get drunk at games and 1% can ruin it for everyone else by throwing things.

 

You wouldn't take your 1 year old kid on a vacation to Baghdad or to the Gaza strip. But why not? You shouldn't have to worry about people blowing themselves up, right? Under no circumstances should that be happening....but yet it does. Obviously you wouldn't take your children to a dangerous place. I know thats an extreme example but it helps me make my point. Unfortunately a Jays game can be dangerous to an infant.

 

Avoid the risk, don't take your baby to a game. When my daughters were infants we just didn't go to games. Or else I went with a friend while my wife stayed home. It sucked but its a sacrifice you make for a couple years.

 

Get a sitter if you want to go with the wife, or if you are too freaked out about leaving a baby with a sitter, then tough it out and watch from home. There are sacrifices you make as a parent when having kids. I'd much rather sacrifice not watching the game, rather than sacrifice my child's safety.

Edited October 16, 2015 by TilsonBritoFan

[TilsonBritoFan]

Who gives a s*** about the baby's experience? Just because you had a little ******** doesn't mean you have to be a slave to it. If it's more convenient for you to take the baby then take the f***in' baby and f*** the haters.

 

Its not about the haters, its about the safety of an infant. Get with it bud. Obviously you are not a parent.

[TilsonBritoFan]

Man it completely changes your life - vast majority of the time for the better. Think about how much you loved the Jays before last night. Now think about how you felt about the Jays when Bats hit the bomb last night.....that's the type of difference a kid can make.

 

Yup, agreed. It was so amazing to take my 5 year old daughter to the game with me last night. I hope she never forgets it.

 

She's really into the Jays - she knows every single player, their position, and spot in the batting order, I thought I was a baseball nut but shes beyond where I was at that age!

[TilsonBritoFan]

News flash, I don't always travel with my girl. I have friends that I go snowboarding with, Vegas with ect. I have a big pool of friends to travel with. If it makes you sleep easier I can post a photo of me in all these places if you really want.

 

Didn't you also say you worked at Sportsnet?

 

If thats the case there's no way you can actually afford these things, the pay is s***. Unless you are Greg Zaun.

 

Are you Greg Zaun? Are you drunk right now?

[TilsonBritoFan]

You jelly that I don't change diapers and have gone to Hawaii this year, SF, LA, SD, Chicago, NYC, Denver (snowboarding) Prague, Rome and Budapest, the year isn't even over yet and I am going to Japan to snowboard in December..... yeah you jelly.

 

Wow I can only imagine the pickup line you used on your girlfriend. Must have been real memorable. Keep bragging to strangers. We care.

[Brownie19]

Wow I can only imagine the pickup line you used on your girlfriend. Must have been real memorable. Keep bragging to strangers. We care.

 

Dude hasn't even hit puberty yet man...take it easy on him.

[Mozzer]

Taking a baby to a baseball game is absolutely mind numbingly moronic. There is so much randomn idiocy that can occur at a ball game that as a parent you are putting your child at risk and sometimes yourself at risk. It's called negligence and parents need to be called out on it more often. Simply because you have an environment where lot of potential accidents /incidents can occur quickly and without warning. It's like when I see joggers running their baby's on strollers on the street. What are you thinking? Like seriously. The only exception I think would be if you had a private box but even still...

[avatar22]

We have taken our daughter to a couple games at around 1 year old. I have never been advised that the noise level was some major health hazard. If it were, her grandfather (a pediatrician) would have said something.

 

The only reason we haven't lately is because the price of an extra ticket is just too much now that the Jays are so hot.

 

But here's a reality check - Babies aren't made of matchsticks and tissue paper.

 

You can jump with a baby in your arms. Try it sometime. Babies like it when you do that. See that smile on her face? Hear that laughing? It's called fun.

 

You can take a baby to most public venues, and as long as they don't scream or annoy others, you'll all be just fine. A ballgame is one of the few places where a baby can cry and nobody is going to care. Not that our daughter cried. She smiled, laughed, and had her picture taken with Ace. They supply booster seats for infants at the ballpark.

 

How depressing it must be for you neurotics who lock your babies up in padded rooms, who can't so much as leave the house for more than an hour at a time with your baby for fear of missing a precious naptime. How tiring it must be to Lysol every doorknob in your house lest a nasty germ land on your delicate bundle of tissue paper.

 

Next year we'll be taking our daughter to more ballgames. Other parents can watch her disapprovingly on TV from their dark basements.

[TilsonBritoFan]

^the kind of guy who sits first row at 3rd with baby then flinches out of the way when foul ball comes his way. No big deal, babies aren't made of glass, right?

 

 

Theres a difference between playfully bouncing/jumping your baby around, and idiotic parents freaking out jumping in the moment like I saw at game 1, where the babies head was flopping around. I don't need a doctor to tell me thats f***ed up. I'm a parent with 2 young girls myself and I would NEVER have done that to them at that age. Its just f***ed up bud.

 

My kids haven't spent their lives locked in a padded room *******. They've had amazing experiences, first baseball game at age 2. and traveled all over with us. But not as newborn babies. If your child was 1 year old it was probably fine. But under a year is just stupid. If you want to continue to argue this despite the fact that 95% disagree with you that's your problem.

Edited October 16, 2015 by TilsonBritoFan

[avatar22]

^the kind of guy who sits first row at 3rd with baby then flinches out of the way when foul ball comes his way. No big deal, babies aren't made of glass, right?

 

 

Theres a difference between playfully bouncing/jumping your baby around, and idiotic parents freaking out jumping in the moment like I saw at game 1, where the babies head was flopping around. I don't need a doctor to tell me thats f***ed up. I'm a parent with 2 young girls myself and I would NEVER have done that to them at that age. Its just f***ed up bud.

 

My kids haven't spent their lives locked in a padded room *******. They've had amazing experiences, first baseball game at age 2. and traveled all over with us. But not as newborn babies. If your child was 1 year old it was probably fine. But under a year is just stupid. If you want to continue to argue this despite the fact that 95% disagree with you that's your problem.

 

Tilson, the comments of most of the users above are about babies and children in general, not just newborns. So while you may be limiting yourself to newborns, I don't think you speak for everyone.

 

And I am not surprised in the slightest that 95% disagree with me. Of course they do. That's the world we live in. Every few months somebody gets the cops called on them because their 9 year old walked to the park down the street alone and some parent snitched on them. Then everybody gets outraged on social media and talks about how when they were kids they could wander the neighborhood for hours as kids and how it sucks that kids can't go anywhere anymore outside an armored SUV. But we know whose fault this is - it's ours.

 

These kind of neurotic attitudes aren't going to end when the babies grow into children and teens. Helicopter parenting starts early. The same parents who are aghast that a 1 year old can go to a ballgame for fear of a stray foul ball hitting them or suffering catastrophic hearing loss because Donaldson hit a home run - they're the same people who are going to ferry their teenagers by car to their friend's house 10 minutes down the street out of fear of pedophiles hiding behind bushes.

 

I am not saying you should bring a newborn to a ballpark. I am saying that on the scale of dangers to your child's safety, this is pretty low on the list, several pegs below driving your kid to grandma's house on the Gardiner after a fresh snowfall.

 

As for the people saying that the kid won't remember anything? Entirely correct. A baby also isn't likely to remember Christmas dinners at Grandma's, playing in the park, or much of anything else. So what?

 

Judgy judgy judgy.

[Mozzer]

Comparing taking a baby to a ball game to leaving a nine year old to walk the streets alone is not a good point of comparison - its utter nonsense.

[King]

We have taken our daughter to a couple games at around 1 year old. I have never been advised that the noise level was some major health hazard. If it were, her grandfather (a pediatrician) would have said something.

 

The only reason we haven't lately is because the price of an extra ticket is just too much now that the Jays are so hot.

 

But here's a reality check - Babies aren't made of matchsticks and tissue paper.

 

You can jump with a baby in your arms. Try it sometime. Babies like it when you do that. See that smile on her face? Hear that laughing? It's called fun.

 

You can take a baby to most public venues, and as long as they don't scream or annoy others, you'll all be just fine. A ballgame is one of the few places where a baby can cry and nobody is going to care. Not that our daughter cried. She smiled, laughed, and had her picture taken with Ace. They supply booster seats for infants at the ballpark.

 

How depressing it must be for you neurotics who lock your babies up in padded rooms, who can't so much as leave the house for more than an hour at a time with your baby for fear of missing a precious naptime. How tiring it must be to Lysol every doorknob in your house lest a nasty germ land on your delicate bundle of tissue paper.

 

Next year we'll be taking our daughter to more ballgames. Other parents can watch her disapprovingly on TV from their dark basements.

 

lol

[vdubmvp]

lol

 

Yeah, that's a very strange and incorrect way of thinking.

[hatecanada]

hate those idiots who bring babies to games

[Dick_Pole]

Tilson, the comments of most of the users above are about babies and children in general, not just newborns. So while you may be limiting yourself to newborns, I don't think you speak for everyone.

 

And I am not surprised in the slightest that 95% disagree with me. Of course they do. That's the world we live in. Every few months somebody gets the cops called on them because their 9 year old walked to the park down the street alone and some parent snitched on them. Then everybody gets outraged on social media and talks about how when they were kids they could wander the neighborhood for hours as kids and how it sucks that kids can't go anywhere anymore outside an armored SUV. But we know whose fault this is - it's ours.

 

These kind of neurotic attitudes aren't going to end when the babies grow into children and teens. Helicopter parenting starts early. The same parents who are aghast that a 1 year old can go to a ballgame for fear of a stray foul ball hitting them or suffering catastrophic hearing loss because Donaldson hit a home run - they're the same people who are going to ferry their teenagers by car to their friend's house 10 minutes down the street out of fear of pedophiles hiding behind bushes.

 

I am not saying you should bring a newborn to a ballpark. I am saying that on the scale of dangers to your child's safety, this is pretty low on the list, several pegs below driving your kid to grandma's house on the Gardiner after a fresh snowfall.

 

As for the people saying that the kid won't remember anything? Entirely correct. A baby also isn't likely to remember Christmas dinners at Grandma's, playing in the park, or much of anything else. So what?

 

Judgy judgy judgy.

 

I agree the whole pedophilia thing is taken way too far. In every other social issue - abortion, gun laws etc - there's going to be a pro and anti group and they both sort of keep each other in check so one side of the issue doesn't swing too far into the extreme. No one is going to be "pro-pedophile" so the media has a field day trying to scare you into thinking there's a drooling pervert on every street corner and no one's gonna call them out on their ********. With the rise of the internet they have even more reason to stay at home in the shadows. It's the poor kids in third world countries we have to worry about who are being abused for the online community of pervs, not the kids here.

 

Let your kids out unattended. There's a greater chance you'll damage them by not letting them grow up and figure stuff out on their own than them becoming victims of some random kidnapper.

[bronson44]

We have taken our daughter to a couple games at around 1 year old. I have never been advised that the noise level was some major health hazard. If it were, her grandfather (a pediatrician) would have said something.

 

The only reason we haven't lately is because the price of an extra ticket is just too much now that the Jays are so hot.

 

But here's a reality check - Babies aren't made of matchsticks and tissue paper.

 

You can jump with a baby in your arms. Try it sometime. Babies like it when you do that. See that smile on her face? Hear that laughing? It's called fun.

 

You can take a baby to most public venues, and as long as they don't scream or annoy others, you'll all be just fine. A ballgame is one of the few places where a baby can cry and nobody is going to care. Not that our daughter cried. She smiled, laughed, and had her picture taken with Ace. They supply booster seats for infants at the ballpark.

 

How depressing it must be for you neurotics who lock your babies up in padded rooms, who can't so much as leave the house for more than an hour at a time with your baby for fear of missing a precious naptime. How tiring it must be to Lysol every doorknob in your house lest a nasty germ land on your delicate bundle of tissue paper.

 

Next year we'll be taking our daughter to more ballgames. Other parents can watch her disapprovingly on TV from their dark basements.

 

I always assumed the babies got in for free. Surprised to learn they require a ticket

[Krylian]

I always assumed the babies got in for free. Surprised to learn they require a ticket

 

If they sit on your lap they don't need a ticket. If you want them to have their own seat, you need to buy one obviously.