May 25, 2005
The New "Black Hole"?
For more years than I can count, my impression of LA Dodgers fans were that they were a fairly sedate lot. But it looks like it isn't that way anymore. Here's Matt Welch on the atmosphere in Dodger Stadium during last weekend's Angels-Dodgers series:
Speaking of the Ravine, its transformation into the Raiders-era Coliseum is now nearly complete. Even with the extra cops, there is no control of the stands, violence always seems about one sneeze away (as we were walking out of the place, two guys were squaring off in the parking lot over the deeply relevant issue of whether one of them had tattoos or not); and everyone just chucks whatever they can find -- hot dog wrappers, cokes, flaming javelins with little screaming Darth Vader heads -- from the upper decks onto the saps below.
T.J. Simers reported much the same thing in the Los Angeles Times a little more than two weeks ago, and draws many of the same parallels that Welch does in the above passage.
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