What do you get when you take some rowdy college students who are interested mainly (solely?) in drinking their faces off, give them discounted tickets to leave more money in their pockets for beer, and put them in the same place with Philadelphia fans known for violence and booing their mother for putting too much salt on the meat loaf? You get college night at Citizens Bank Park.I don't think I need to tell you that all did not go smoothly on Wednesday, which was the first of six college nights:
The Phillies said yesterday they would look at ways to improve college nights at Citizens Bank Park after Wednesday's first college night got out of hand. Rowdy fans threw objects from the upper deck onto the field and fans below. There were 31 ejections Wednesday, which is higher than normal. There also were reports of fights.Fights? At a Philadelphia sporting event? It can't be!
Here's a hint: "Mitch Williams Appreciation Night"? Bad idea."We're very pleased about the increased attendance and interest by the college fans," said Mike Stiles, senior vice president for administration and operations. "But we have to curtail college fans or anybody else who engages in misbehavior that takes away from the rest of our fans' enjoyment of the game. And so we're going to explore ways to do that, and we have to find the right balance."
Great, five more nights of little Sally coming home and asking "Daddy, what does @#$& mean"? (The next college night, by the way, is next Friday against Houston.)There were 41,516 fans at Wednesday's 3-2 loss in 11 innings. The Phillies have five more college nights scheduled this season.
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im sure girls gone wild have the cameras ready in case some boozed up skeezers let em fly