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81-year-old lifelong Dodgers fan left
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Posted By: mc squared, 4/6/2026 11:30:39 AM

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. Errol Segal, the 81-year-old diehard fan who has held season tickets for a staggering 50 years, found himself in the ultimate pickle when the team essentially told him his money was good, but his flip phone wasn’t. 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.

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5 years ago 'covid vaccine' cards were being floated to enter almost anywhere.
Any beneficial 'tech' will be eventually used for evil. This isn't about baseball tickets. Ask the J-6 prisoners.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: D S Craft 4/6/2026 11:46:36 AM (No. 2089539)
I sympathize with the guy. I not only don't own a smartphone, I don't own any kind of wireless device. The one and only telephone in my life is the landline that sits on my desk. A wireless phone for me is nothing but an electronic leash. There's a lot of amazing new tech that I love and smartphones are great for some but it's just not something I need. Besides between the cost of the phone and the user plans they can get pretty expensive pretty fast. But increasingly it seems companies are assuming everybody owns a smart phone, which sucks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: proximo 4/6/2026 11:51:18 AM (No. 2089544)
The Dodgers are a business and have determined it's cheaper for them to use digital tickets instead of printing them on paper. "Everyone" has a modern mobile phone, after all. It's a smug, even ignorant, approach but they've done the math that only a very small number of customers will be inconvenienced. In the end, they might lose a few ticket sales but make up for it in not paying to print and distribute physical tickets. Call it ageism, greed, whatever, but that's all this is. It's just business.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: edgar 4/6/2026 11:56:05 AM (No. 2089548)
I am not a fan of the electronic tickets. I like a paper ticket. But times have changed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mc squared 4/6/2026 12:02:08 PM (No. 2089550)
For the Dodgers it's a cost savings. In Hong Kong it's required to release it to the authorities. Left my car at a valet service and needed my smart phone to drop off and leave. Remember the phrase leaving a 'paper trail'? Paper isn't required anymore.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: sunshinehorses 4/6/2026 12:24:47 PM (No. 2089560)
For those over the age of 55 or so, they really aren't fond of smart phones and the gazillion apps needed for everything. I am over 70 and a former computer programmer / software junkie. I hate using my smartphone for this "stuff".
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Strike3 4/6/2026 12:41:47 PM (No. 2089566)
Sorry, Errol, but you put your faith in the wrong diety.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: kono 4/6/2026 12:47:26 PM (No. 2089568)
Brooklyn's boys will screw you every time. BOHICA, baby.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 4/6/2026 1:11:10 PM (No. 2089586)
This is nothing. Mr. Segal should try going to a Clippers game over at the Inglewood Dome, where both an e-ticket AND facial recognition are needed to enter. And, of course, no-cash concessions once you're inside.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JHHolliday 4/6/2026 1:16:01 PM (No. 2089588)
Same as #5. I was the IT guy for my company but don't want all this QR code etc. and really, at 83, don't want to fool, figure or fiddle with using it. I won't have to since I will be gone along with the paper tickets.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/6/2026 1:16:36 PM (No. 2089589)
All the team had to do was send him a QR code hardcopy for all 81 home games. See, Dodgers Front Office? simple. Your young DEI somethings sure blew it here. This is the kind of thing that really annoys me. I'm 73. While I still have most of my marbles still in my head, it really chaps my heinie when a millennial at a store at the customer services desk, for example, does the old "the-world-owes-me" eye roll, when I don't exactly explain myself correctly. But I am good at returning the no-blink stinky eye. And they straighten up mighty fast especially when I talk louder and there is a line of people behind me who are all my age.
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