3:49 AM on 07.10.2007
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Safeco Field -- home of the partially-Nintendo-owned Seattle Mariners -- is set to become the testing ground for a new interactive baseball experience courtesy of the Big N. The games company, most famous for its mascot-based EVERYTHING and having fans whose zealotry borders on Islamic fanaticism, has begun pitching an idea that would turn the DS into a sort of touch screen interface for things such as game footage, food services and (we hope) inspiring quotes from Bob Uecker.
The system would download a small program to baseball fans' handheld games machine upon entering the park and if it works as planned, should make help push baseball into the new century where everything has a touch screen interface and humanity is dying out thanks to sexy robots.
Honestly, I've never been a fan of baseball (not enough tiger attacks), but if this sort of thing came to a ballpark near me, I'd catch a game just to demo the novelty of the thing. That, though, brings up the question of whether this is just a novel gimmick, or if it could take off and become a widespread part of America's favorite past time. What say you loyal minions?
[Joe Burling once played for the Cleveland Indians. That was the worst winter of his life.]
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People have been going to sporting events with FM/AM radios for years because they have much better color commentary on the radio than they do at the actual event. If you were able to get access to this at the game, I would totally bring my DS. You could have instant replays looping on the top screen and the bottom screen could be live broadcast with commentary. Fuck that would rule with hockey fights and penalties.