How hard would it be to sneak into a MLB playoff game

I swear all of lets run is on welfare.

carry a bat with you and claim you play

It is easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle, than for a poor student to enter a MLB playoff game.

Notgonnatrythis” wrote:

Say if you were a broke college student, and the MLB championship series is going to be played in your city. Hypothetically speaking, what would be the best way to get into the game and make it the whole way without being discovered? Posing as a worker? Forging a press pass?

I’ve done some independent research but I figured the geniuses on LRC could help me out

I would approach the employee entrance of Fenway Park wearing a reflective vest, and a hard hat with the name of the electric utility on it and carrying a clipboard and tool box. Also get a photo ID made up and wear on a lanyard, and tell them youre there to fix the lights.

Notgonnatrythis” wrote:

Say if you were a broke college student, and the MLB championship series is going to be played in your city. Hypothetically speaking, what would be the best way to get into the game and make it the whole way without being discovered? Posing as a worker? Forging a press pass?

I’ve done some independent research but I figured the geniuses on LRC could help me out

Read the Prologue of Don DeLillo's Underworld .

was in Chicago in 2016 and the Saturday afternoon before the race I went up to Wrigley Field to look around.

There was a playoff game that evening at 7:00 pm and people were walking around the park as I was doing.

There were security goons everywhere and since there was not many people around many of the goons were watching me closely. It was as if they were hoping I would storm the gate so they could rough me up.

bottom line : there is no way a guy could get in.

I think we ought to help this young man out (I assume you’re a man).

I wonder if you waited until the 3rd-4th inning, if a kind hearted ticket puncher would just let you in. Long shot but worth a try!

Or alternatively you could go to your college newspaper and offer to write stories about the game. Then presumably you could get a legitimate press pass.

Try to pull "The Grand Scam"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfsIs2OIfWU

Chicago town wrote:

was in Chicago in 2016 and the Saturday afternoon before the race I went up to Wrigley Field to look around.

There was a playoff game that evening at 7:00 pm and people were walking around the park as I was doing.

There were security goons everywhere and since there was not many people around many of the goons were watching me closely. It was as if they were hoping I would storm the gate so they could rough me up.

bottom line : there is no way a guy could get in.

Yeah, it's kind of stupid how much security there is at sporting events. In the history of major American sports I don't recall there ever being even one shooting. But even though 9/11 involved hijacked planes flying into buildings it was suddenly decided that sporting events were dangerous. If there were no metal detectors at the game and you smuggled in a handgun you probably couldn't kill anymore people than you could at a Mall.

It would be pretty hard, but...you can do a lot being polite, confident and appearing to need help with a mix of misdirection.

Get through the metal detectors with a folded up piece of paper that looks like a ticket. Get there with a big crowd. Go to one end of the ticket scanners and then move down the line, don't try to offer your 'ticket' for scanning, just keep walking past busy and irritated scanners, cutting through the crowd. Maybe throw out a 'sorry' or 'sorry...my wife' if needed. Look a little confused, like you are following someone who is changing their mind or took a wrong turn. Look for a ticket taker/scanner who appears pleasant, busy, kind, maybe old. When you find the right one, slow down while she looks up and you say with a mix of confidence and apology, smiling and in a hurry, "she scanned me back over there, I'm just catching my wife". Vaguely point back at a mix of scanners you passed, and quickly toward and point to your non-existent wife as you say this. Move past the scanner into the game. Say 'thanks!' and wave your 'ticket'. If she says anything just keep moving and say, "thanks again! help them. (point at people now waiting) I'll get my wife". Big smiles, wave, like she is an old friend you were happy to run into and keep moving toward someone turning a corner who could be your wife. Turn the corner. Take off your hoodie and hat or some other outer layer, just in case.

Maybe you get in. Maybe you get tackled and arrested.

There are some other tech-savvy ideas but I don't want to contribute further to your delinquency. Just donate some plasma for cash, sell some stuff, find a job agency that hires out day labor and buy tickets.

Mikeh33 wrote:

Or alternatively you could go to your college newspaper and offer to write stories about the game. Then presumably you could get a legitimate press pass.

There is always someone with an extra ticket at game time.

Hold up a sign outside stadium: " homeless, amputee veteran seeks ticket to (?) my boyhood heroes. Promise not to sit near you. "

Show up with a box full of syringes and say you're needed in the (home team) locker room.

Edie Balco wrote:

Show up with a box full of syringes and say you're needed in the (home team) locker room.

Ha! I see what you did there, Edie.