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I was at the game tonight(last night?) and noticed at the end of the game that people were taking anything and everything they could from the stadium. I was sitting in my usual seat in sec 154 row 22 behind home plate and there was one of the playoff banners right above my head. At the end of the game, someone came and ripped that off, and in looking around the stadium I was seeing others disappear too. Signs indicating the section number overhead were being torn off by people grabbing ahold and franticly twisting it back and forth.
As I ventured over to the Cardinal dugout where some of the players were giving interviews, waving to the fans(So Taguchi came out and starting whipping batting gloves out to people), more people were ripping the metal diamond box section plates off the bars. Numerous people were talking about storming the field, some even trying to get me to join them, and one section number plate vandal was scolded down by a fan who screamed at him to "LEAVE IT THERE!". The guy walked off to another section to attempt to yank another one off and again the fan screamed at him to leave and said "I'M WATCHING YOU AND WILL HUNT YOU DOWN IF YOU TAKE ANYTHING!!". I actually thought the whole exchange was pretty hilarious. One person I saw was arrested in the concourse, and just about every beer vendor sign was taken.
I saw Howard, the usher who works the aisle I sit in, at Denny's later that night when I ran into him while getting something to eat and we talked about the whole scene there post-game. He said someone actually took one of the bathroom doors off the stalls and tried to make away with that too.
As I ventured over to the Cardinal dugout where some of the players were giving interviews, waving to the fans(So Taguchi came out and starting whipping batting gloves out to people), more people were ripping the metal diamond box section plates off the bars. Numerous people were talking about storming the field, some even trying to get me to join them, and one section number plate vandal was scolded down by a fan who screamed at him to "LEAVE IT THERE!". The guy walked off to another section to attempt to yank another one off and again the fan screamed at him to leave and said "I'M WATCHING YOU AND WILL HUNT YOU DOWN IF YOU TAKE ANYTHING!!". I actually thought the whole exchange was pretty hilarious. One person I saw was arrested in the concourse, and just about every beer vendor sign was taken.
I saw Howard, the usher who works the aisle I sit in, at Denny's later that night when I ran into him while getting something to eat and we talked about the whole scene there post-game. He said someone actually took one of the bathroom doors off the stalls and tried to make away with that too.
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