Comments on: NY Mets New Facility to be Unified - This Speaks Volumes http://broaddev.com/2008/08/26/ny-mets-new-facility-to-be-unified-this-speaks-volumes/ Tracking UC, Virtutalization, Security, Web 2.0 All Day and All Night Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tom Ford http://broaddev.com/2008/08/26/ny-mets-new-facility-to-be-unified-this-speaks-volumes/#comment-534 Tom Ford Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:08:35 +0000 http://broaddev.com/?p=164#comment-534 @trevor I agree with you but the price of the players drive the economics for the owners. Yankee stadium is now the same way. It's all about being there at all costs. It's no longer kid and family friendly. Only the rich can go now. What would really be unified would be if they open up the broadcasting to people via the internet. Baseball is about limiting the broadcast rights. That is worse than the high ticket prices and luxury. If the average fan can't make it to the game then the fans and or owners should broadcast the game to everyone. That's unified communications @trevor I agree with you but the price of the players drive the economics for the owners. Yankee stadium is now the same way. It’s all about being there at all costs. It’s no longer kid and family friendly. Only the rich can go now.

What would really be unified would be if they open up the broadcasting to people via the internet. Baseball is about limiting the broadcast rights. That is worse than the high ticket prices and luxury. If the average fan can’t make it to the game then the fans and or owners should broadcast the game to everyone. That’s unified communications

]]> By: Trevor http://broaddev.com/2008/08/26/ny-mets-new-facility-to-be-unified-this-speaks-volumes/#comment-532 Trevor Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:11:36 +0000 http://broaddev.com/?p=164#comment-532 As a baseball fan and a Mets fan, I wonder if CitiField is for the love of the game or of commercialization. I believe it to be the latter. Baseball is not about luxury boxes and having every pitch brought to you by a different corporate sponsor (and this seems to be where it is heading). I'd much rather sit in the field level seats or even the bleachers with a hot dog and a beer rather than a lobster sandwich and a martini. http://www.linkedin.com/in/trevorheisler As a baseball fan and a Mets fan, I wonder if CitiField is for the love of the game or of commercialization. I believe it to be the latter. Baseball is not about luxury boxes and having every pitch brought to you by a different corporate sponsor (and this seems to be where it is heading). I’d much rather sit in the field level seats or even the bleachers with a hot dog and a beer rather than a lobster sandwich and a martini.

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