Posted on 04/06/2026 9:05:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Los Angeles Dodgers are playing hardball with their most loyal fans, and this time, the boys in blue are looking more like corporate bullies.
Despite half a century of loyalty — long before the era of QR codes — the Dodgers flat-out refused to provide Segal with paper tickets for the 2026 season, effectively shutting him out of games.
Holding up a relic of a flip phone that definitely doesn’t support the MLB Ballpark app, Segal told local reporters that he doesn’t have an iPhone. In fact, he doesn’t know how to use a computer.
An iron-fisted “digital-only” policy seems to be the issue — which the Dodgers refused to waive even after Segal offered to pay extra for the privilege of a paper ticket.
“If I had the tickets one year, five years, 10 years, that’s another story,” Segal told a local outlet. “Fifty years I’ve had these tickets. They threw me under the bus.”
For the first time in decades, the devoted fan is considering skipping games entirely — even after being offered a refund for his seats.
“I said, ‘That’s not fair,'” Segal recalled, rejecting the team’s buyback offer.
The Dodgers, currently valued at an estimated $7.8 billion to $8 billion, apparently couldn’t accommodate a man who has supported them through thick and thin.
The longtime South LA business owner said he was still able to purchase a paper ticket at the stadium for a single game, but the team still won’t provide printed tickets for the full season.
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Our family attends several concerts every year. All of them have gone digital, but I always print the tickets out just in case my phone decides to quit. All the “ticket takers” are looking for is the bar code. My man is a business owner, right? So, there has to be someone in his organization who can order the tickets, download them, print them, and put them in his hands.
No paper tickets means you have to cut MLB and Ticketmaster in for a 15% cut if you resell your ticket through them.
At our stamping plant in Phila., the company gave a 50 year employee a $500 gold coin for his service.
The Dodgers should give this guy free season tickets for the rest of his life.....
Hubby has to make a trip to the social security office this week. Why? Because they took away the ability to just sign in to ssa.gov. You now have to go through id.me or some other one. But!!! When he signed up for those he used our old landline and they won’t recognize or change to his new cell number so he can receive a text to verify it’s him. They have totally screwed older people who don’t know how to do all that stuff!
I am not that old (62), but the ID.ME nd the .GOV options are unusable. After you get an account an d jump through hoops, they demand “just one more thing”, like Columbo. Eventually I will have to go to the office in person, too. I just wanted a list of my past contributions, and I managed to find a paper form for that, at least.
Long ago I made it a policy that I would not participate in the 21st century.
Just wait until your car mfg. requires you to have a cell phone and all your social media data and a subscription for the starter.
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You are all in on not being able to buy/sell without the Mark?
The dumbest thing I see is people boarding planes with boarding passes on their phones. I always have two sets of paper copies in different places.
Why don’t the Dodgers just create a gate pass with a bar code on it, like I’m sure every employee at Dodger Stadium has? Given he’s a long-term season ticket holder, they could even open their purse and get him a really nice lanyard. I’m sure they could squeeze it out of their budget given they invest millions and millions in their newest free-agent toys every year.
He didn’t receive a statement this year for our taxes. And the bank account his check goes into got frozen because it was hacked, so he needs to change the banking info. Important stuff that we can’t get done. I even called and they said...nope, then you gotta go to the office. Ridiculous!
I just thought...what about all those poor people that don’t know how to use computers.
I am on his side and I just plain REFUSE to give all companies my phone number just to do business or shop at their store. A restaurant wanted me to use my phone for the menu and my wife and just Left and went to chik fil a instead.
The Dodgers may find out that under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), their policy is going to cost them dearly, because there are numerous individuals who cannot use a “smart” phone.
just wait til that links up with your medical records, sorry your cholesterol is too high there is no price on this because you are restricted from buying it. and on top of that the other side, “yes you can have zucchini it is allowed, at 4 dollars each.”
In the 80s a computer savy HS friend had a lucrative business manufacturing fake progress reports.
oPRY IS THE SAME WAY.
yESTERDAY i TRIED TO FIND THE cARDINALS GAME, ONLY TO DISCOVER IT WAS ONLY ON pEACOCK.
“What if cell towers or wifi is down?”
It is loaded into your phone. Connectivity not required.
E-tickets are worth the paper they are printed on.
Worth $2000.00 last month.
One of Bernie Madoff's kids?
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