Joe Lemire (of cnnsi.com) seems to think so... And with a .500 record and the number one prospect in baseball, there is certainly some evidence to warrant such a conclusion. Here at Classic Nats, we applaud this slow trudge towards respectability, while withholding judgment until the Nats show that they can keep up this effort for more than 2 months.
"No more gaffes, no more laughs for suddenly respectable Nats"
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Score One for the Good Guys
According to their company profile, Nevco Integrated Display and Scoring Solutions produced the first electronic scoreboard model in 1934. That model, which consisted of glass dials and glass disks helped lead to the digital scoreboard revolution and creation of the giant LED display behemoths that dominate nearly every major sports venue in the world.
Nationals Park has a screen the equivalent of a 1,300-inch television. According to a 2008 Washington Post article titled, "Giving You the Score, Plus a Whole Lot More," the Nats scoreboard is "101 feet long and 47 feet high [and is] among the biggest and the best in baseball."
The article further states, "the best scoreboards do more than provide on-base percentages and other inside information: They pump up fans. [Nationals Scoreboard Producer David] Lundin's team is working on plans to keep the crowd energized and engaged."
"'We want to have entertainment going every second,' Lundin said."
Bearing that in mind, in years past, the littany of questions often self-posed by Nats fans have ranged from the ever present, "Where the hell is our offense?!?!" to "How did we just lose when we were up by 4 runs with two outs in the 9th??"
Obviously, every season is different and now that the Nats have finally found some success, it stands to reason that in a purely nurturing manner, the Nats owners and administration would not want their fans' childlike wonderment and inquiring minds to fall idle for lack of frustrating doubt or uncertainty.
Or at least that's the conclusion I come to when I see this picture from last night's game, snapped right around the 6th inning:
That's right, the entire scoreboard went dark from the 6th inning until the end of the game.
While some might view this as an absolute and total failure on the part of Nationals Park, I see it as an opportunity, nay a challenge, presented to Nats fans. Whereas most stadiums make accesible information about what inning it is, what the count is, or even occasionally what the score is, National Park and its employees know that it should be the responsibility of every fan in attendance to monitor these statistics on their own.
So I say thank you Nationals Park managament for setting the bar high and confusing fans and players of the visiting team. This new strategy not only empowers your home fans, but makes opposing teams misunderstimate the most basic capabilities of the Nationals players and management.
So, mechanical/electronic fail? I don't think so. Classic Nats? Well, you tell me the score.
Nationals Park has a screen the equivalent of a 1,300-inch television. According to a 2008 Washington Post article titled, "Giving You the Score, Plus a Whole Lot More," the Nats scoreboard is "101 feet long and 47 feet high [and is] among the biggest and the best in baseball."
The article further states, "the best scoreboards do more than provide on-base percentages and other inside information: They pump up fans. [Nationals Scoreboard Producer David] Lundin's team is working on plans to keep the crowd energized and engaged."
"'We want to have entertainment going every second,' Lundin said."
Bearing that in mind, in years past, the littany of questions often self-posed by Nats fans have ranged from the ever present, "Where the hell is our offense?!?!" to "How did we just lose when we were up by 4 runs with two outs in the 9th??"
Obviously, every season is different and now that the Nats have finally found some success, it stands to reason that in a purely nurturing manner, the Nats owners and administration would not want their fans' childlike wonderment and inquiring minds to fall idle for lack of frustrating doubt or uncertainty.
Or at least that's the conclusion I come to when I see this picture from last night's game, snapped right around the 6th inning:
That's right, the entire scoreboard went dark from the 6th inning until the end of the game.
While some might view this as an absolute and total failure on the part of Nationals Park, I see it as an opportunity, nay a challenge, presented to Nats fans. Whereas most stadiums make accesible information about what inning it is, what the count is, or even occasionally what the score is, National Park and its employees know that it should be the responsibility of every fan in attendance to monitor these statistics on their own.
So I say thank you Nationals Park managament for setting the bar high and confusing fans and players of the visiting team. This new strategy not only empowers your home fans, but makes opposing teams misunderstimate the most basic capabilities of the Nationals players and management.
So, mechanical/electronic fail? I don't think so. Classic Nats? Well, you tell me the score.
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