Usually we have been in terrace reserve, just because of finances, and that is all I can afford when I'm bringing the family. Usually buy them through stubhub.
Ok, here is one of the trips to Miller Park with just me and my 10 year old son. We make it a point to not be obnoxious or anything. We are going to cheer for the cardinals, though, and we wear cardinals stuff.
Anyway, this family sits behind us, mom, dad and mid-20's son. Dad and son are drinking like crazy, and from the beginning of the game the son is dropping fbombs like crazy, yelling crazy stuff, and I am convinced he was doing it just to try and irritate my 10 year old son, and yes it was irritating for him. I can hear the mom say to him, hey tone down the language a little bit. He says, that is just part of going to the f-ing ballpark, and he should get f-ing used to it. There were other kids who were brewer fans around too, other families in the area. It was really over the top. Then as he and dad get up to get what was at least round 4 or 5, he knocks his last one over and spills probably 1/4 cup of beer down his back. I try to clean him up as best I can with napkins and stuff. They come back to their seats, and I hear the mom say, you spilled beer on that boy, you should apologize. Same response, that's just part of going to the ballpark, he needs to get used to it, laced with profanity again, blah, blah, blah.
And, he and his dad, loudly "talking baseball" all game long were total idiots. At one point the son loudly proclaims I hate baseball, there's not enough scoring. They have too many defenders on the field. they should take some defensive players off the field so they score more. 10 defenders is way too many! I wanted to turn around and tell the guy that this isn't slow pitch softball, or little league, but I bit my tongue. Their drivel about the statistics being flashed on the board that they knew NOTHING about nearly drove me insane.
Another time we were there with another friend of mine and his son, and again, the fbombs were flying all around us, and we even had a guy get in our faces as he was leaving trying to get us to take a swing at him, with our sons right there with us, too.
That was two games in a row, and after which my son didn't really want to go to a game over there again. So for NLCS game 6, I took a friend of mine and the two of us went. It was ok, and overall the fans we were around were pretty cool. I did take him to a game earlier this year, with some freebies we got from two friends of ours who were brewer fans. Don't know if that made a difference or not, but we had a great time that day.
It just seems the last 3-4 years, things have really been bad when I've tried to take the family and just go to a ballgame together. Sorry so long, but you asked, so I thought I would explain a couple of our experiences.
I have fond memories of going to the ballpark with my dad growing up, busch stadium most of the time, but also to wrigley a lot, and don't remember ever having stuff like this going on around us.