Apropos of Nothing - vBaseball

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

No the apps are amazing (if a bit evil). The truth is the market and huge growth is rewarding companies like MLB that have made big-ass innovative tech investments

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: No the apps are amazing (if a bit evil). The truth is the market and huge growth is rewarding companies like MLB that have made big-ass innovative tech investments

evil might be a stretch, I dunno. That we're going to be giving up a lot more personal data than ever before is inevitable, the question is going to be how do we protect and manage so that we can keep some modicum of privacy. like medical/genetic records to keep healthcare from dropping us based on our chromosomes? Though that's probably inevitable. If someone gets breast cancer, and has daughters insured with the same company, it's a pretty easy assumption of risk there, and they could drop you? Have companies done this yet? It's only a matter of time.

I feel like we might need some sort of black box system. (In my imagination, we all have personal robotic "Alexa"s, and these robots can be authorized to temporarily communicate needed information to other companies, like MLB. But can also serve as a filter in return, so the Pirates might try to email you based on a vacation visit, but your own Alexa will know you have zero interest in seeing it and will block it)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Centerfield wrote: I don't like how other MLB clubs keep emailing me after I go to a game.

I went to Mets games in Pittsburgh and Seattle in 2014. And, like you, I kept getting e-mail updates from them. The Mariners were far worse than the Pirates. I kept getting e-mails about what the Mariner Moose was up to. But the e-mails have an unsubscribe feature, and when I finally got around to use it, it worked perfectly. No more e-mails from the Pirates or Mariners.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Well yeah, that too. But seriously, I'm watching the end of the Yanx/Red Sox last night and a crowd shot in the 9th inning shows the Boston fans behind the dugouts in YSIII all looking at the game through their phones. Now I know we live in a 'Pics or it didn't happen' society, but geez, you spend hundreds to get that seat so you can see a live baseball game and you're watching the crucial 2-out / one-run game Kimbrel vs Judge matchup through a screen approximately (quick guesstimation here) 1/150th the size of your home television. I don't get it. If the camera/broadcast is on those fans, you're not watching the game either are you? 95% of them looked up.

I saw a whole bunch of peeps watching Albert's 600th HR through their tiny screens and they kept those things in their eyes the entire time.
It's like their reasoning is: so while history unfolds before me, I'll put this thing in front of my face as it happens because being able to prove that I was there later on beats actually seeing it occur.

[DocTee]

Do you think they're watching the game on their phone, or using the device to video-record an historic moment?

[Ceetar]

DocTee wrote: Do you think they're watching the game on their phone, or using the device to video-record an historic moment?

recording, tweeting, interacting with friends and fans and watching highlights and looking up stats and talking about the game.

Some of them are probably doing other things, particularly in the rich seats.

[Frayed Knot]

DocTee wrote: Do you think they're watching the game on their phone, or using the device to video-record an historic moment?

Their main purpose, I'm sure, is to record the moment. But in doing so they wind up viewing said moment on a screen a fraction of the size that those who aren't there can see it on, and it all
seems to be based around the idea that having proof you were there for such an event is more important then actually viewing the event itself from the great vantage point you were lucky enough
to have in the first place.

Personally, I'd just watch the damn game and then maybe record the celebration if I felt it necessary to capture the feeling for posterity. Videos of moments like those usually suck anyway. If I
wanted to see vids with a combination of jumpy, poorly-framed, out of focus, and skewed perspective I could just Google up 'The Best of Walmart Parking Lot Fights'.

[MFS62]

Tim Teufel - pinch hitting again:
http://m.newstimes.com/sports/article/Former-Met-Teufel-pinch-hits-for-Gooden-at-11209361.php

Later

[seawolf17]

Gar The Batting Stance Guy here in the ROC tonight.

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