Gaslamp Ball Think Tank

by jbox on Jan 22, 2009 7:58 PM PST

Ok here's an idea I came up when talking to Dex this afternoon. You've got fans that come to games for give aways and you have fans that come to games to sit down, watch the game and shut up. So here's my idea to give these two types of fans a common goal.

The idea has to do with scoring the game. You need to figure out a way to score the game using a scantron or other means of electronic grading.

Then you award points or prizes based on how accurately the fan scored the game. So this gets fans to follow the game more closely hopefully keeping their interest while increasing their knowledge of the game. Friends can compete, "What happened that last at bat? " "Don't be cheating off me dude!"

Maybe just maybe this would keep the fan focus on the field while allowing fans to keep their eye on the prize too.

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Good initiative

Bad judgment.

1. Is the scoring system going to be based on the same type of score card that die hard fans use for every game?
2. For those who are ignorant of how scoring is done, their heads are going to be down looking at the scorecard/sheet for an awful long time. As a result? Missing some of the game.
3. Those same novice scorekeepers sitting on the foul lines might just get plunked in the head w/a screamer off of Kuz’s bat while their heads are buried in that scorecard/sheet.
4. I don’t want my fans shutting up. I want them raising hell. (But I get your drift. I was at a Nats / Mets game in D.C. last year and a lady behind me wouldn’t stop talking to her friend on the cell phone about cousin Timmy – Gimmee a break.)

*When I go to the ballpark, I go for the following reasons.
1. I want to see my team win.
2. I want to get out of the damn house and stop blogging.
3. I hope to see some good baseball being played.
4. Enjoying a beer, a hot dog and the game of baseball w/a buddy.
5. Viewing the off field talent.

Howeva…

I’ve always been told. Don’t complain unless you have a solution. Since this is a think tank, I’m gonna rack by brain and see what I can come up with. I love San Diego and I want to see that team and that city have as fine a ball club as the city itself.

To be continued…

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 22, 2009 8:15 PM PST reply actions

Sorry Jbox

I meant to strike out ~~bad judgment.~~

" PLEASE! CHANGE THE PATCH! "

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 22, 2009 8:18 PM PST up reply actions

For the record

I didn’t quite understand the logistics of JBox’s idea, but I also admit for the record that we both didn’t quite understand the point of my last post either.

by Dex on Jan 22, 2009 10:28 PM PST reply actions

I bet that would work at Safeco...

They could come up with a program for people to score the game on their DSes (does one already exist? I dunno)… I always thought that was a genius move as it both gets casual fans with a DS more involved in the game and sells units to hardcore Mariner-lovers who wouldn’t otherwise give a toss about some little pocket vidjo game box thingie…

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by TheThirdGonzalez on Jan 23, 2009 12:55 AM PST reply actions

That would be awesome if they spread that to other parks

Of course, Nintendo only owns the Mariners. There are scoring apps for Iphone/Ipod touch. I’ll be taking my touch to games at Cincy, since I always like to keep score, but the scorecards you get at Great American suck Huevos. The only problem is, how do you get a player autograph on your Ipod?

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by Boilermaker19 on Jan 23, 2009 5:17 AM PST up reply actions

Um, those paint markers?

Hmm...a financial panther?

by friarinchicago on Jan 23, 2009 6:07 AM PST up reply actions

Think the same thing

I thought this was a innovative and fun feature when I went to SafeCo for the first time.
Plus it offers the chat function for an added level of fan interaction.
I think with some clever content, fans would really get into, and be exposed to other aspects of the games.
It’s also a great way to get a more technically inclined, younger generation interested in the game.

by sacpadre on Jan 23, 2009 2:06 PM PST up reply actions

Sounds ok in theory

This would probably work with fans who already pay attention to the games like season ticket holders, families, or people who go to games regularly throughout the season—and that wouldn’t be a bad thing.

But I don’t think we’d see the really obnoxious ‘fans’ who go to games pick up on this and they’re the ones I’d like to see pay attention.

I'm not in denial, I'm just selective about the reality I choose to accept.

by lab_mouse on Jan 23, 2009 10:01 AM PST reply actions

meh

i wouldnt wanna be at a padres game and be surrounded by people who dont actually care what the padres do — in this case they would be more interested in winning the scoring competition thingy. Unfortunately it kind of already is like that, so lets not make it worse. but thats just me

by LJbumfool on Jan 23, 2009 4:55 PM PST reply actions