Do you like a bunch of high tech stuff at (live) games, and if so, why?

[LisaM]

I was thinking back to the old Michigan Stadium scoreboard, that they had well into the 1990s. It just gave the basic facts about the game - the teams, the score, the time, who had the ball, and the down and yardage. It exuded old time football, and it presumed that the fans had a knowledge of the game. Now, they've got horribly distracting huge tv screens in each endzone. One of the assistant ADs seems to like this, and seemed surprised that there were people who even now didn't like it!

I really miss how they would announce the out of town scores. They created a great dynamic - especially if there was an upset brewing, or a rival was losing.

I haven't figured out why people want to trade those things for constant replays, and a running score. If you watched a game in the 80s or 90s at Michigan Stadium, you were repeating the experience your parents, or even your grandparents had. Why would you want all the electronics? I just don't get it. I really don't. Explain to me how it's better - not why you personally LIKE it, but why it's BETTER. It distracts from the game at hand among other things. Even when I try not to, I find my attention drifting to the screen.

[charlie and algernon]

1. I like the scoreboard at Camden Yards for the O's

you get the requisite stats for all the players, plus they added a scoreboard on the right field wall that continually shows out of town scores. You even see who's batting and pitching and who hit HRs for each of the out of town games.

[madinmaryland]

2. I like the scoreband at Camden Yards, also. Has just the right

amount of information. Since I don't normally get a program, I can tell how each of the players are doing.

[LisaM]

3. I like out of town scoreboards at baseball games

but I don't care who hit a home run for some other team or who's pitching (unless it's a record, or someone has a no-hitter going). That's fantasy league stuff, IMO.

Funny, I went to a game at Camden Yard and I don't remember that scoreboard at all.

[charlie and algernon]

4. it's pretty new, I think they installed it in 2008

[LisaM]

5. Ah. My one game was well before that.

I did like Camden Yard in general, though, and the fans were really nice, too.