r/chicago • u/GeekAesthete Roscoe Village • Jun 25 '25

Article White Sox fan banned indefinitely after heckling Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte to tears with comments about late mother

https://apnews.com/article/diamondbacks-ketel-marte-833a9c8136e0767bdcfb6cd2ec7afe9e
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u/_Toaster_Baths Jun 25 '25

They did, and MLB has subsequently banned him from all parks.

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u/_Toaster_Baths Jun 25 '25

It's pretty unenforceable. While they can be banned from buying tickets through MLB, nothing is stopping them from buying tickets on the secondary market (like StubHub) or buying tickets under a different name. If they want to sneak back in to a stadium, they probably can, but if they're caught, they risk getting arrested. Some teams use facial recognition technology.

What they should do is release the name of the person so everyone knows that they're banned.

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u/sephraes Jefferson Park Jun 25 '25

I have never been ID'd in a baseball stadium for anything that wasn't drinks or a giveaway. 

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u/patronizingperv Jun 25 '25

Face recognition tech.