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Sounding off on reserved seats
“Just a reminder, all seating is general admission for all fans – home and visitors. Seats cannot be “saved” unless there is someone actually sitting in one of the seats. This applies to all seating including the plush seats behind home plate. If you are seating and someone comes up and tells you to move, ask someone to go get a Hartselle police officer.”
“Yes, ask the police officer, aka, city ushers. Problem 1,236 with the world today ! Try to work out your own problems and then when that goes south and you start to fight, then call the police! That’s what they are here for! Grow up! Our police officers have better and more important things to do than baby sitting baseball seating complaints!”
Seats are seats, and rules are rules. Our school teams fall under the purview of AHSAA (Alabama High School Athletic Association.) Go to their website (www.ahsaa.com) and find the Spring Sports Book. The baseball section is found between pages 55 and 76. Anyone with questions can get them answered there. Member schools must follow AHSAA guidelines. (Ask Coach Heaps, Booth, Young or Mr Hyche; they will confirm it.) If we do not follow AHSAA guidelines, we do not play. I believe two teams have been removed from the baseball playoffs this year for failing to follow their mandates. Perhaps, it would be good for the City of Hartselle (since the city owns the field) and the Hartselle City School System to erect signage clarifying rules in regard to seating. The boys nor the girls want their fans squabbling over such things. Let’s go, find a seat (hopefully they will be hard to find), and support our teams competing for state championships!
“I have read the AHSAA rules and I have not seen anything stating reserved seats are not allowed. I have read where the host team must provide seating for the visting team seperate from the home team. Where in the rules does it state no reserve seats.”
“Judging by last week’s attendance there should be plenty of seating because I hardly saw anyone in the stands. Most everyone was in the outfield.
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