I enjoy playing softball, just as a fun game that is somewhat like baseball, which I played for 16 years. I play out at Big League Dreams in Gilbert, AZ. So the coed team I am on was in the championship game Tuesday night. The game didn't start until about 10:30 and it had already been a long day. So this team that we are playing a few of the guys take slow pitch softball a little too seriously and a few guys on my team are the same way(I am a very competitive person but I just want to play for fun.) Anyways so to sum it up a few guys on my team and a few guys on their team almost get into an all out brawl. They were all drunk and getting mad at each other for everything. The game was delayed like 6 times for arguments and shoving matches. I was not involved, only trying to break up the fighting so we could play the game. But after we won the game and we were all leaving as a team it got me thinking, what if these guys couldn't let it go. What if they were waiting in the parking lot to fight us? They didn't care that I wasn't one of the guys on my team trash talking and picking fights, they were mad at the entire team. Now, my gun is locked up in my safe in my truck because It would be kind of hard to carry while playing softball. But what would you guys do if approached after a game like this? Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance!
I would stop and keep enough distance then call 911 and report an unruly buncha drunks threatening people. Then I would have to think if these are the kind of people I really want to hang around with
Alcohol makes the situation worse. But probably best to follow an escalating approach.
1. Try to diffuse the situation verbal.
2. Have one person call 911
3. OC
4. I would run away. Let them win. Not worth going to jail/legal problems.
5. If they came at me with baseball bats, that is as deadly as a firearm. I would probably draw at that point.
The previous answers say it all. Unless the bats come into play, firearms would not even be on my list. I sure as heck would not be playing ball with these guys anymore if fighting is the order of the day--it is just waiting to get real ugly and it is right up there on my list of responsibilities if I have a firearm and are CC.
Sounds like you need different umps!! They should have been thrown out of the game and escorted off the property. I'v never heard of a sanctioned ball league allowing drinking. Move on to another ball league that is sane!
Yeah, because a gang of unarmed drunks can't kill anyone. It's impossible for mob mentality to make normally law abiding citizens act like thugs. I agree that getting the heck out of there is the best course of action but if i'm alone and a group of grown men wants to attack me with baseball bats I'm not getting maimed or killed.
Yeah, because a gang of unarmed drunks can't kill anyone. It's impossible for mob mentality to make normally law abiding citizens act like thugs. I agree that getting the heck out of there is the best course of action but if i'm alone and a group of grown men wants to attack me with baseball bats I'm not getting maimed or killed.
I didn't say a group of unarmed drunks can't kill you. But in the scenario presented the OP is also with a group. two GROUPS of unarmed individuals, no disparity of force...alcohol involved...if your response is to enter guns blazing then have a nice life in prison...you see the group waiting for you in the lot..you don't keep walking to them, you walk away and call the Five-O.
I used to play park district ball with a group of men mostly from my neighborhood. It was fun and a good excuse to get out of the house and have a few brewski's with the guy's (after the game) It was illegal to have alcohol in any park and I wouldn't think of bringing a firearm anywhere close to the field or a bar. Occasionally some players on either team would get belligerent and have to be reminded to play nice. The reminder was given by both teams and the umpires. No fighting was tolerated. Those were the good old days!
After the game I'm leaving. Then I will find someone else to play with. This is not a group I want to hang around with. I'm as competative as anybody, but I'd prefer to remain non-combative if possible.
They started to get like that last game and I knew I only had one game left, so I decided to finish out the season, Yes it was a mistake on my part and I definitely learned from it. I am NOT playing with them again ever.
I can understand that if it just started happening that you might think that with just one more game that you could finish the season without incident. Probably just bad luck, but also a lesson learned with no real harm done.
Definitely lesson learned, I generally avoid the drinking and rowdy crowd that comes with it. Some people just can't handle their alcohol and need to stay out of public when intoxicated.
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