I think that most people that don't like viewing the game through nets are also saying "other people's safety shouldn't be compromised for my inconvenience", and that's a very fair statement. I don't think the two sides of this argument are all that far apart. I do think the argument that people should be sitting in rapt attention at all times is just silly. Nobody is going to sit for 3 hours at a ballgame and just stare at the field. Aside from cell phones, there's so much visual stuff going on (scoreboards, ribbons, ads, people sitting around us to talk to, etc, etc, etc) that the "pay attention" argument is just (IMO) silly. Yes, you should pay attention, but sometimes stuff just happens. You can be paying attention and still get smoked by a foul ball. Most people sitting in the stands aren't professional athletes with world class reflexes.