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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13It's pretty bad when your sport is so dull that people surf the internet and do office work while you're playing.
Then again, most sports where it's just a commercial organization and a bunch of highpaid employees is fairly dull. - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11I will laugh at the first person whose laptop is destroyed by a fly ball at the ball park. I know it's cruel, but if you pay for a baseball ticket just to browse the internet, you're almost asking for it.
- zentro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Tell me, how much of a loser are you if you pull out your laptop in the middle of game?
- LNahid2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I didn't even know Vancouver had a baseball team. Then I looked it up on wikipedia and found out it was minor league.
- bitslayer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The obvious winner here is the statistics geek. This sub-species of the baseball fan has always longed for a way to immediately look up their twisted little facts in real time, as the game continues. Great for settling arguements. And starting them.
- Barmat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At&T park where the San Francisco Giants play has had free wireless almost since it was built. I've used my lap top a bunch of times and it's a blast. The connection gives you access to tons of stats and info about both teams. It's no more distracting from the game as keeping sore with a score card. baseball has lots of little breaks between the action.
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It'll be too ***** bright outside to even see the laptop screen...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks like the average attendance of an american minor league baseball game is only around 6,000 people. It's probably even lower for a canadian team. And if these guys are having trouble filling seats as it is.. then you can probably figure they must get about 3,000 people per game at the most.
It looks like the average minor league team also plays around 100 to 120 games per year.
If the tickets were cheap enough and the speed was fast enough, you might be able to go to the ballpark as a cheap internet cafe alternative... but who cares about the baseball part, frankly. - MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"Um. I think when your boss notices you are not even on the campus, much less in your office, the jigg is probably up . . ."
Not really. A lot of people don't have sedentary jobs in cube farms. Many people have jobs that require them to drive to see these things called "clients" to have "meetings." For such people, it wouldn't be that difficult, if not particularly ethical, to take in a game once in a while while on the clock. If they can take the laptop and do some work while there, it might make someone feel more comfortable about being at a game during work, and less likely to get caught. - MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I think the notion is that the games occur during business hours in a city, and they're trying to entice business people who are on the clock. The WiFi is an attempt to draw people who want to see a game and not get caught doing it. It's not to offer another form of entertainment to those who are bored, who most likely wouldn't go in the first place. Read the article, or failing that, think.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only city in Canada with a major league team is now Toronto (the Toronto Blue Jays), since Washington stole^H^H^H^H^Hacquired the Montreal Expos.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Calgary lost they're "cannons" now they have a new stupid team... nobody watches baseball anyways
except for them... what are they called?....... americans? - jpric18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Minute Maid Park has wireless....
- thepaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nat Bailey is a beautiful little ballpark too. If your a baseball fan, you've got to take the drive to Vancouver and catch a few games.
- subneural, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The local Second Cup coffee franchise figured out they could whup Starbucks by offering free wifi, too. It's nice to leave the office on a sunny afternoon and work from a cafe table on a patio. Working for a relaxed employer helps too!
- CmdrDataM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In all of these comments I didn't hear one person mention the fact that some of the new phones and PDAs on the market are coming with WiFi. This opens a whole different usage and potential at the field. I personally couldn't see carrying a laptop and attempting to do work but pull out the phone/PDA and lookup stats, answer e-mails, check the stock market, traffic conditions, etc etc.
- thepaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have to agree with you CmdrDataM.... a laptop would be inconvenient, as well as a bit pretentious. Now with a Dell Axim or another PDA you could have a lot of fun....
what would be a blast is the ability to take over the scoreboard..... - Spon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As soon as the web browser comes out for the Nintendo DS. I'm using it at Pac Bell/SBC/ AT&T Park!
- MrObjectional, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Old hat. I work for the Durham Bulls in North Carolina (@ the DBAP, for those in the know) and they've had this for years. I think it's more important to all the guys in the press box than the people in the stands, though. I'm pretty sure the main router is hooked up next to our video encoder, which we needed a fat pipe for anyway, so sharing is good.
- tcox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Catoutfit" posted some interesting calculations about how much it might be costing Nat Bailey Stadium to offer Wi-Fi, but in fact the service is advertising-supported using technology from Gigazad Networks. Ad pages for local businesses are displayed periodically while people browse the Internet. www.gigazad.com
- catoutfit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I don't think that the price would really be an issue at all, first of all much smaller business have free WiFi without passing on a noticeable price to the customer.
Secondly even if they did:
say 30,000 go to each game (I don't know much about baseball, I'm English. but this is Canadian baseball so I assume the draw is smaller than US baseball).
Let's just say the WiFi costs $1000 to implement.
and they play 50 games a season.
that's 1,500,000 tickets sold per season (30,000 * 50)
divide the cost of installing ($1000/$1,500,000)
that adds a ticket price of a fraction of a cent per game, obviously these figures are massive estimates and assumptions but the fact remains the same...NO - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah, but then you're forced to hang out around all the trust-fund-babies, hippies, yuppies and wasted youth. So it sort of cancels each other out. :P
- jonatne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this just goes to prove how much of a boring sport baseball is
they have roller coasters and water slides in American parks
now people are going to be browsing the internet
who would every want to surf the net at a football game (american or non)?
or a basketball game?
a sport so boring and so drug out that you have to occupy yourself with other things shouldnt be called a sport
whats the point? - DASH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Have you seen the movie Fever Pitch? LMAO!
- websiteforu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0First off, didnt read all of the comments so don't know if this has been said...A wise man once said, flying baseballs, laptops and beer do NOT mix...ok so i said it not a wise man, point still remains though!!! :)
- pyrokinetic666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wondered when someone was going to say that lol
Still, neat idea though. - mmaclean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lynx Stadium in Ottawa added wireless this year too.
- brockbrock, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Haha of all places. My father actually coaches for this team and I'll be forced to hang out at the stadium for three weeks straight. Free Wi-Fi for me!!!
- avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Is this just an attempt to intice Geeks and Nerds to get some sun.. Speaking as a nerd, we are one step away from being a vampire..
..well not one step.. you get my point. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5About equal to the other people at the game. It's the game that is the common denominator here.
- MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3"but who cares about the baseball part, frankly"
Baseball fans? Not everyone plays MMPORGWTFOMGs for entertainment. - hankosky, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Its going, going, gone! the (team) winds and ohh thats the end of that laptop. THe ball just smashed it to peaces!
anyone else see a point... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Um. I think when your boss notices you are not even on the campus, much less in your office, the jigg is probably up . . .
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0bet it's throttled at 56k or something really low so it's only fast enough for email and not surfing online....
so does that wifi implementation passed on to the spectators in the ticket price? - icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0bet it's throttled at 56k or something really low so it's only fast enough for email and not surfing online....
so does that wifi implementation passed on to the spectators in the ticket price? - nattybohman, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6Yes, because internationally popular sports like soccer are soooo exciting. I've never seen a large group of people run around for so long with nothing to show for it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3@natty
Soccer looks exciting... for the fans. Because most of them are wasted drunk off their ass losers that fight over "team pride" (teams that they aren't even on) at every game and kill each other over it. So.. I guess he's right insofar as that.
But otherwise, I find soccer and baseball about as boring as each other. Football is actually pretty boring, too. I could tolerate basketball, if it weren't for the whole "watching a corporation playing sports" part. I find it hard to give a ***** abuot what is essentially a company competing against another company. But at least there is action in basketball, I guess.
And I actually played soccer, like about 15% of Americans. But I dont' give a ***** about the sport (like 95% of americans). - kamisamaji, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1If I were forced to read your pathetic comments i'd need a knife to gouge my eyes out. It would be alright, but you had to make it about Americans and Canadians...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+8If I was forced to go and watch American or Canadian sports I'd need the internet just to get through the unbelievable boredom.
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