How I got dissed by the Kansas City Royals

Okay...Here's how it all started...

On Saturday night my in-laws came to pick up our family (the Wife, the Sons and Me) to take us to a Kansas City Royal's game. We had gone for the double-header the previous night and had planned on going on Saturday to see them beat the A's again and collect some George Brett Bobbleheads.

The In-Laws had picked up some Domino's Pizza and some sodas and we were going to tailgate, but when we got to the stadium a rather sizeable crowd had already arrived some two hours prior to the game. Thinking they might run out of bobbleheads we decided to go on into the stadium, collect our bobbleheads and then take them out to the car and eat.

As we approached the gate we could see dozens upon dozens of people returning to their cars with their bobbleheads, so thinking we were on the right track, we entered through the gates.
We approached an employee to inquire as to which gate to go out of so that we might get our hands or tickets stamped for return. The employee then told us that we would not be allowed to return to the stadium if we left.

Knowing full well that we had done this several times in the past, we decided to ask someone else. This employee told us to go to the entrance with the tent and they would let us out and back in, however, when we got to the tented entrance we were told that if we left we could not come back.

There we were...hungry as well as angry about our situation...so we went to guest services which already had a long angry line of fans there...(Wonder why?) We were told that since Sept. 11th the security rules had changed... Excuse me, but WHAT??? The Royals didn't start giving out bobbleheads until around 2003 and we have ALWAYS taken them back to the car before the game...!!!

Not wanting to pay stadium prices and having already seen two previous Royals vs. A's games the evening before we thought we'd let the kids play for a bit, watch batting practice and part of the game and then head to the parking lot for pizza and a ride home.

Since I'm not made of money but do enjoy and support the Royals (SEVERAL TIMES THIS SUMMER!!!) As soon as I arrived home I fired off a "YOU OWE ME MONEY" e-mail to the Royals.

I do understand the need for security, but c'mon you guys lighten up!!! This Sept. 11th thing is getting really out of hand. Why don't you just admit that you had a big crowd and you didn't want to deal with people coming and going? Did you not realize that you would tick off hundreds of fans?

Our family consists of some of the few die-hard Royals fans that you have...do you really want to make us angry? It isn't that we'll desert the team, but we feel as if you don't care enough about us...so, what is up with that???

So I guess I'll just have to be happy with my George Brett (that doesn't look a bit like him) Bobblehead, won't I?

-Dave