Darrell pleads:
>Standing is a sign of interest and excitement, do not kill that.
Too late. It's mostly already killed, particularly for the Olympic Trials.
Because there the Fun-Not-Allowed crowd somehow managed to arrange to have
the actual Sacramento police enforce their aribtrary and highly-restrictive
notions of proper spectator etiquette.
Imagine that at a baseball game: a certain group spectators with the
mentality of a bunch of fussy little old ladies somehow gets the city cops
to force all baseball fans to sit glued to their seats, even when the
pitcher is facing a tough jam with the game on the line, even when a homerun
ball is sailing for the fence. For a fun sport like baseball the concept
is laughable. But in track it has somehow become the norm. It has even
taken on a patina of virtue. Incredible.
Kurt Bray
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