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Boomer & Gio

Dodgers Disrespect Elderly Fan

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Dodgers are forcing an 81 year old season ticket holder to use a digital ticket, which this man does not have. He does not want to use digital tickets, but the Dodgers are making him do that if he wants to use his season tickets. Gio has his take and callers have theirs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm going to give you a couple of baseball things, as we always talk about the old school, new school baseball stuff. All right. And this is not exactly about like the game. It's not like when the callers call up and they bunting or this or that or why does batting average not matter. Not stuff like that. It's about food and stadiums. No, it's not. Okay. It's about a man. the first part of it is about a man

0:22.3

who has been a It's about food and stadiums? No, it's not. Okay. It's about a man.

0:28.1

The first part of it is about a man who has been a Dodgers season ticket holder for 50 years.

0:30.2

You heard that right.

0:32.6

Not 15, 50 years.

0:35.3

His name is Errol Siegel.

0:37.9

He's 81 years old now.

0:43.3

And the Dodgers this year said no exceptions.

0:46.7

Everybody has to have a digital ticket.

0:50.1

We cannot give you printed tickets any longer.

0:52.5

This is enough of this.

0:57.4

You have to have a digital ticket. So Errol Siegel, who has not given in to any sort of smartphone in his life, has a flip phone, and will not purchase the tickets

1:07.0

because he doesn't have the ability to get them on his phone.

1:12.4

And the New York Post writes an article about this, and they're definitely on Errol Siegel's side,

1:19.2

but they write an iron-fisted digital-only policy seems to be the issue.

1:25.8

Now, I understand that there are folks like yourself who have issues with technology,

1:31.5

old man technology spot.

1:33.6

But the iPhone has been around since what, 2007?

1:37.7

Something like that, right?

1:40.2

Is that when the iPhone was created?

1:42.3

Romney, you probably know this.

1:43.2

You probably had one of the first ones at six years old.

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