All in all the experience during the game went well and for the most part Dodger fans around me were courtesy.  The fact that the Padres lost that evening and never really threatened to take the lead might have helped.  On the way back to the car that's when I encountered the other half.  While no one "attacked" me a lot gum bumping was to be had.  I thought the best tactic was to not acknowledge the comments and for the most part that worked.  What I did find disturbing was a Dodger family piling into their car in preparation of leaving.  After Dodger Dad gets the kids in the back seat he makes his way to the front door and proceeds to relieve himself behind the cover of the open driver side door.  After a lengthy evacuation of the bladder he then enters the car and then begins discarding trash for the interior like he was a garbage truck at a local land fill.  Finally he drives off making a wide u-turn and slows to toss several more items out the door.  My friend and I found the whole episode to be quite disturbing especially given the presence of these young kids.  We talked at length about Dodger fans and what he would call the recent decline of respectful fans and his being ashamed to call himself a Dodger fan.  It is clear Dodger Dad is breeding disrespectful Dodger fans and the situation will probably only worsen for years to come.  My advice is steer clear of the pavilion when attending Dodger games and don't lower yourself to their level when confronted by obnoxious Dodger fan.  Go Padres!

I married Dodger Fan under condition of him becoming Padre Fan.    It works, most of the time.

anyways, this year he passed on getting season tickets because as much fun as he has with the fans around his seats, there are still the assholes that crowd the rest of the stadium and often times wind up near his seat as well.  he wrote a letter to the dodgers telling them that he would've been buying 2 tickets to every home game for the next 30 years if they made any effort to get rid of the thugs and assholes in the stadium.

now whenever i'm in san diego we catch a game down at Petco.  much better environment.  maybe i can change a lifetime dodger fan into a padres fan.

I think it was early in the season in 2001.  I think we finished the season 32 games out of first place, but still enough ahead of the CLOROX to not be the cellar dwellers.  Anyway, my company had season tickets above the bullpen in left field.  I went alone as it was a weeknight and nobody else could go.  I sat on the aisle wearing a Tony Gwynn jersey and was heckled the ENTIRE time by the guy across the aisle on my left.  I was pretty quiet and intent on watching the game.  I think Rickey Henderson was still playing left for us then and I couldn't keep my eyes off the girl who threw the warm up tosses with him between innings.  Anyways, AZFan kept drinking beer after beer and was intent on us losing and them winning.  I can't remember who it was that smacked one out, but he drove in three runs to win the game for us.  

The guy was pissed but still managed to drunkenly shake my hand and say "good game."  I was surprised by this but still managed to shake his hand with a smile and a nod.  I turned to walk up the stairs and the same guy who cordially congratulated me, sucker punched me in the back of my head.  Instincts kicked in and I turned around and nailed the guy in the face.  The guy fell backwards and security was on me instantly.  Unfortunately they didn't ask any questions from me or any witnesses.  I was hauled off to the holding tank.  The security guard was pretty pissed and told me to "sit tight until we find out if this guy wants to press charges or not."  I couldn't get a word in that the guy hit me first and I acted in self defense.  

After two hours of waiting in the holding tank by myself, they managed to sort out the truth from the intoxicated AZFan and the sober SDFan.  The head of security came back and apologized and asked if I'd like to press charges against AZFan.  I declined and just wanted to get out of there.  The guy let me leave but got his final shot in by telling me, "You'd be better off next time if you didn't wear the uniform of opposing teams."  I was appalled and couldn't believe that they obviously couldn't provide enough protection for fans and that they over-served this guy on the beer!  

I know it's bad in LA, but I was just wondering if anyone's had any other bad experiences elsewhere.  Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Your solution is pretty funny :-) I think jbox was at least on to something by complaining to the team about the lack of security. Certainly the thugish, drunken ones know they can continue their behavior game after gmae if they are never reprimanded.