Went to a baseball game

For some reason the silly games don’t bother me, but I know you’re not alone in hating them.

I was also at the game- I wish I’d spotted you to say hi. The only person we actually tracked down was Name’s Ash. Everyone else got lost in the crowd. It was not a great showing by the Beavers, but I still enjoyed it.

I believe things are that way because somebody thinks that people need to be constantly stimulated or they’ll be bored to tears.

But also, there’s just a natural tendency to keep adding more of whatever to everything. So software has more and more functions and is rendered less useful and reliable; cars have more and more features and become less robust; we have more and more athletic shoes and most of them wear out too soon and look like crap.

The idea that less is more has seemingly been lost. We substitute quantity for quality. We seem to live in terror lest we’re left alone in silence for a few moments and must face our own thoughts.

The lines were a bit longer than I’d like but it’s tough to feed 1700 people all at once when the food is “free to them”. Blazer management was very happy at least and my team worked their rears off.

To the point that I almost prefer watching the games at home on my DVR. The broadcast engineers mix the sound so that, miraculously, the blaring “music” is at a tolerable level. And, of course, I’m able to zap the commercials if I record the game on my DVR, then use the 30-second skip button.

Those games irked me beyond belief.

I saw them as momentum killers. A great game… the crowd cheering… a huge come back… and… let’s guess the price/race the dogs/ shoot some hoops… and… the crowd goes dead.

I’m at a game for excitement, for nail biters, for whatever. If you’re going to have entertainment then really it should be something that builds up the energy, not deflates it. it should be something flexible so you can move it in without disruptions.

They were better at the games I made it to last year, but I’ve given up on it. It’s still bad, it still kills the excitement that’s building. I canceled my season tickets for a large number of reasons. I could have been swayed either way, but in the end I think I made the right choice and little things like that definitely play into those decisions when swaying.

11 year old kids with ADD… I just don’t get it. Aside from the sponsored games during timeouts, which aren’t my favorite but I can live with, I really wish we could:

1) Turn the general PA volume down a bit
2) If the crowd is cheering, not killing it with Guns & Roses etc…
3) Stop playing hip hop while the game is being played

I have so many problems with the way baseball games are promoted and sold to people that it makes my head explode.

Baseball is fine the way it is. There’s no need for “game operations” to compete with the game itself.

We really need someone to grab the wheel and turn professional baseball around in a different direction.

Game was terrible but seeing TP was cool

It’s amazing what comes out of the think thank when revenue hits the bricks. Makes sense at PGE Park as Beavers games have declined dramatically over the last few years – but no excuse at the Rose Garden with all of the sell outs. And I agree with the general sentiment in here. I just want to watch basketball. I would rather watch highlights of the night’s action and other games from round the league during breaks.

i thought it was a pretty good game. good pitching performances. with better base running by Portland, they could have won i think.

I love the random promotions you see at minor league baseball games. They amuse the heck out of me.