Scoring the Scoreboards

[HahnSolo]

I am not a fan of the Citi OOTS. Red/green dots...do the pitcher numbers on correlate to the diamond on the right or left?

I loved the Shea OOTS...the thing I miss most about Shea, in fact.

[Guest themetfairy]

When we were in Minneapolis on Memorial Day Weekend, the out of town scoreboard was on drugs. There would be a score up, and the next time you looked the same game would revert to a previous status. Games were going from the 7th inning to the 5th to the 8th and back again. Finished games were back on. This was for every team, and it happened both games that we attended there.

That affected my evaluation of the ballpark; it's not the biggest thing in the world, but it seems like it's the kind of thing that shouldn't be so hard to get right.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I started this thread with the preconceived idea that the Mets' main scoreboard was the ugliest of the moderns. Collecting these images confirms my POV. I get the impression that the Wilpons gave us a scoreboard grudgingly, the same way that they gave us a Mets HOF a year later. The Mets' scoreboard portion of the scoreboard looks like an afterthought -- an excuse to sell more ad space. I wonder if the Wilpons lose any sleep at night over the fact that there's a portion of their scoreboard that isn't generating ad revenue? Seriously? I'm not high on the Wilpons either but they didn't "grudgingly" include the scoreboard. .... Generally speaking, the Citi Field boards themselves are middle-of-the-pack. Not fantastic, but not awful. The out-of-town scoreboard would be among the best in the league if it could be seen properly at night.

I know that they didn't give us a scoreboard grudgingly. I was being sarcastic. You didn't know that? You couldn't tell? Really now?

So which is your least favorite of the modern scoreboards?

[Gwreck]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: So which is your least favorite of the modern scoreboards?

Detroit needs an update pretty badly.

Philadelphia's board isn't very good and their out-of-town scoreboard is located in a place that prevents too many fans from seeing it (right field wall).

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

How about the Comiskey board? The explosives and pinwheels are iconic, and the board, while having ads, still seems kind of clean.

Plus, it flashes photos like the one above so fans know when to boo.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: So which is your least favorite of the modern scoreboards? Detroit needs an update pretty badly.

I'm telling Mich what you just said.

Brewers






White Sox

[batmagadanleadoff]

Almost 500 feet wide -- still nothing larger:




Anyone ever seen this one?

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