Downtown Toledo- Officials at 5/3 Field are surprised at the recent spike in beer sales during the two school day games held Monday and Wednesday this week. School day games being at 10:30 and allow school kids of all ages to attend games in lieu of their regular class time.
“At first we thought maybe the parents and chaperones of the kids were drinking heavily in order to cope with chasing these little shits around and having them “scream for some ice cream” every 5 minutes” said Food & Beverage Manager Jason Dura
Beer sales spiked a whopping 14% on Monday and 9% on Wednesday.
Timmy O’Brien a 4th grader at Shoreland Elementary said:
“There’s nothing like coming to the ball park and grabbing a couple of beers with the boys and watching the girls climb around on the playground in centerfield. It’s the perfect set up for us kids, we can’t drive and we took a bus down here, we have chaperones to make sure we don’t get hit by a car as we stumble back to the bus and with the recent police lay offs there aren’t enough cops around to watch us, it’s great”
Students all over could be seen drinking beers out of “Sippy cups” and the regular beer cups for those that were strong enough to hold them.
“We look forward to these games all school year, we plan for it, I ate a lot of bread last night just so my body would have something to soak up all the beer I knew I was going to drink today, there’s nothing worse than trying to finger paint hung over” said Brian Ducatt a kindergartner at Glendale Fielbach Elementary.
Some of the older students have their own reasons for looking forward to the Hens day games, while some do enjoy a good baseball game others have a greater need for the day.
Brian Johnson a 6th grader at Walker Elementary said:
“It’s the end of the year and Becky Williams has been chasing me the whole school year and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I mean look at her. So since I’m going off to Jr. High next year and there is only a week or so left of school I figured what the hell. Now I just have to drink that poor thing pretty”
Despite the stigma that comes with having school kids getting drunk at Mud Hens games officials say there is no intention of stepping up enforcement, in this economy every dollar counts.
“At first we thought maybe the parents and chaperones of the kids were drinking heavily in order to cope with chasing these little shits around and having them “scream for some ice cream” every 5 minutes” said Food & Beverage Manager Jason Dura
Beer sales spiked a whopping 14% on Monday and 9% on Wednesday.
Timmy O’Brien a 4th grader at Shoreland Elementary said:
“There’s nothing like coming to the ball park and grabbing a couple of beers with the boys and watching the girls climb around on the playground in centerfield. It’s the perfect set up for us kids, we can’t drive and we took a bus down here, we have chaperones to make sure we don’t get hit by a car as we stumble back to the bus and with the recent police lay offs there aren’t enough cops around to watch us, it’s great”
Students all over could be seen drinking beers out of “Sippy cups” and the regular beer cups for those that were strong enough to hold them.
“We look forward to these games all school year, we plan for it, I ate a lot of bread last night just so my body would have something to soak up all the beer I knew I was going to drink today, there’s nothing worse than trying to finger paint hung over” said Brian Ducatt a kindergartner at Glendale Fielbach Elementary.
Some of the older students have their own reasons for looking forward to the Hens day games, while some do enjoy a good baseball game others have a greater need for the day.
Brian Johnson a 6th grader at Walker Elementary said:
“It’s the end of the year and Becky Williams has been chasing me the whole school year and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I mean look at her. So since I’m going off to Jr. High next year and there is only a week or so left of school I figured what the hell. Now I just have to drink that poor thing pretty”
Despite the stigma that comes with having school kids getting drunk at Mud Hens games officials say there is no intention of stepping up enforcement, in this economy every dollar counts.
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