Airplanes are not baseball stadiums

We ended up getting bumped on the flight back from NM, and transferred to a Frontier airlines flight. Frontier has those little TV sets in the back of the seats, so obnoxious jerks in seats near yours can pay money to force you to be a captive audience for shows you'd never watch normally.

On this flight, at least half a dozen people were watching some ball game, and they kept forgetting they weren't in a stadium, or a sports bar, or someplace else that's populated by nothing but baseball fans. (Instead, the cabin lights were off, and everyone else was trying to sleep.)

Every time a big play was made, those 6 jerks would scream and hoot and clap as loudly as they could. Every time, that ruckus would wake up and/or scare at least 2 of the 3 sleeping babies that were within a row of my seat, and they'd start crying. A freakin' lovely flight this was.

It got so bad, I asked a steward how much I'd have to bribe him for him to spill a cup of hot coffee in the laps of each of these screaming fans as he refilled their drinks. Much to my relief, the steward approached the cluster of screaming jackasses and told them that if they screamed again, he'd have police waiting for them upon landing. As you can imagine, it got a little quieter after that.