For televised games they already do this with ads. Each region the game is shown in can have different ads targeted to the local market. But that's only of use to large clubs in the upper leagues.
Japan is using robots, of course. Before you ask I don't know what the inflatable dongs are. https://www.softbankhawks.co.j... [softbankhawks.co.jp]
and just CGI in sportsball enthusiasts from previous years?
CGI might somehow satisfy TV viewers, but it does nothing for the players. I have to think that cardboard cutouts in the stands have a positive effect on athletes. It's at least some kind of physical fan presence, and a reminder that the fans still care and are still rooting for them.
Additionally, I really don't want to see CGI 'fans' in the seats. I find there's far too much artificial reality today, and too much blurring of the line between reality and fantasy. Hell, we now have a whole political system and way of life based on that - we don't need more of it, and its purveyors don't need additional encouragement and licence.
Presumably the cardboard fans are just 0.11 beta, and this time next year the fans will be animatronic: moving, yelling, drinking beer, surfing the web on their phones instead of watching the game, etc. By 2023 they'll be able to catch foul balls (or duck or "accidentally" miss a catch, all in the name of realism). You could even have some of the phone-surfers get "killed" by foul balls. "Look at ol' Phoney here! They replaced his head covering with something that 'thunks' more loudly than last week, and th
Who gives a flying fuck about the players. They are a bunch of grown ass adults running about like children and making millions of dollars for doing so because another bunch of grown ass children want to watch them. Caesar was right.
I'm not a huge fan of sports either, but I never understood the mentality that sports players employed in jobs whose primary goal is entertainment would be considered less than careers such as medicine, engineering or law. A quote from Robin William's literature teacher from Dead Poet's Society sums up my view on this better than I could, so:
[...] medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
so I don't understand why other feel the need to deride their profession.
I would hazard a guess because they have imagined their wealth has given them some ordained authority to lecture their customers regarding morals. Entertainers are paid to entertain. If I want to be lectured on morality, I will visit a church.
Given them "ordained authority"... or simply given them a platform? Are you trying to tell me that if you were famous you would not use that if you felt strongly about something? It's a nice notion in principle... I guess?... but ultimately these people have the same rights that you do, and it isn't entirely their fault if more people are listening when they exercise their 1st Amendment ones.
If you want to be mad at someone / something, maybe get mad at the people whom they can influence strictly because th
I would hazard a guess because they have imagined their wealth has given them some ordained authority to lecture their customers regarding morals. Entertainers are paid to entertain. If I want to be lectured on morality, I will visit a church.
This isn't much different than people who have obtained wealth in any number of other professions. Or perhaps you feel only rich businessmen should be able to lobby politicians or influence public discourse on important topics?
That isn't really fair, as you perhaps feel no rich people should have undo influence on politics in general. That is a nice idea, but not one I ever see being realistic in practice.
"The average sports player is more of a master of their craft than the vast majority of engineers or doctors...."
Are they? Or did they simply win the genetic lottery in terms of size, height, reaction speed, and so on?
Regardless, I don't really care if people want to pay to watch grown men or women hit a ball or run up and down a field or drive around in circles. I do, however, question whether or not a significantly large percentage of a school's educational budget should be devoted to athletics, stadiums,
So doctors and engineers didn't win the genetic lottery by being more intelligent?
Please define "significantly large percentage" of a school's budget. I believe you are simply guessing at the economics behind school athletics and really don't know what you're talking about.
Or did they simply win the genetic lottery in terms of size, height, reaction speed, and so on?
As opposed to those who won the genetic lottery in terms of intelligence, or their parents' socioeconomic status?
I do, however, question whether or not a significantly large percentage of a school's educational budget should be devoted to athletics [...]
My personal opinion is also that schools spend too much time / money on athletics, but that hardly has bearing on whether we should care about players as human beings or about the importance of their profession. Right now NCAA Division I universities apparently spend about 5% of their budgets on athletics [air.org], or about $6 billion total. That is closer to 1% of all post-secondary spending in the US, a
Yes, the proper way for a grown-up to use their leisure time is to smoke a pipe while having an earnest discussion about the merits of Modern Monetary Theory.
Or perhaps we should heed the words of C.S.Lewis; "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
I find it amusing how the MLB players are acting now. There seems to be something of a revolt against the league. First they threatened to walk and start their own league. I'd actually have liked to see that, how this market would work (or not work) with competition. I guess that scared the league enough, because now they're fighting over whether they'll have 30 games or 40. Personally, if I was in that situation, I would welcome having the extra vacation, a few less concussions, and still making enough mon
just rerun last years game, its already proven these drunken retards are just there to scream and act even dumber, doubt they know what actually happened in the game
Why not cover the stands in green screen fabric (Score:5, Interesting)
and just CGI in sportsball enthusiasts from previous years?
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For televised games they already do this with ads. Each region the game is shown in can have different ads targeted to the local market. But that's only of use to large clubs in the upper leagues.
Japan is using robots, of course. Before you ask I don't know what the inflatable dongs are. https://www.softbankhawks.co.j... [softbankhawks.co.jp]
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Before you ask I don't know what the inflatable dongs are
Japan and South Korea really need to work on some sort of collaboration here.
Re:Why not cover the stands in green screen fabric (Score:4, Insightful)
and just CGI in sportsball enthusiasts from previous years?
CGI might somehow satisfy TV viewers, but it does nothing for the players. I have to think that cardboard cutouts in the stands have a positive effect on athletes. It's at least some kind of physical fan presence, and a reminder that the fans still care and are still rooting for them.
Additionally, I really don't want to see CGI 'fans' in the seats. I find there's far too much artificial reality today, and too much blurring of the line between reality and fantasy. Hell, we now have a whole political system and way of life based on that - we don't need more of it, and its purveyors don't need additional encouragement and licence.
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The cardboard cut outs won't cut it for the players, either.
It would be about as exciting (and motivating) as watching paint dry, or grass grow...
Re:Why not cover the stands in green screen fabric (Score:5, Funny)
It would be about as exciting (and motivating) as watching paint dry, or grass grow...
So it would be exactly like watching sports.
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Presumably the cardboard fans are just 0.11 beta, and this time next year the fans will be animatronic: moving, yelling, drinking beer, surfing the web on their phones instead of watching the game, etc. By 2023 they'll be able to catch foul balls (or duck or "accidentally" miss a catch, all in the name of realism). You could even have some of the phone-surfers get "killed" by foul balls. "Look at ol' Phoney here! They replaced his head covering with something that 'thunks' more loudly than last week, and th
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I think the players are mostly motivated by grotesquely inflated salaries already.
Re:Why not cover the stands in green screen fabric (Score:5, Insightful)
Who gives a flying fuck about the players. They are a bunch of grown ass adults running about like children and making millions of dollars for doing so because another bunch of grown ass children want to watch them. Caesar was right.
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Give them bread and circuses and hire barbarian mercenaries? We're well on our way to the Fall of Rome, aren't we?
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I'm not a huge fan of sports either, but I never understood the mentality that sports players employed in jobs whose primary goal is entertainment would be considered less than careers such as medicine, engineering or law. A quote from Robin William's literature teacher from Dead Poet's Society sums up my view on this better than I could, so:
[...] medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Re:Why not cover the stands in green screen fabric (Score:5, Insightful)
so I don't understand why other feel the need to deride their profession.
I would hazard a guess because they have imagined their wealth has given them some ordained authority to lecture their customers regarding morals. Entertainers are paid to entertain. If I want to be lectured on morality, I will visit a church.
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Given them "ordained authority"... or simply given them a platform? Are you trying to tell me that if you were famous you would not use that if you felt strongly about something? It's a nice notion in principle... I guess?... but ultimately these people have the same rights that you do, and it isn't entirely their fault if more people are listening when they exercise their 1st Amendment ones.
If you want to be mad at someone / something, maybe get mad at the people whom they can influence strictly because th
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I would hazard a guess because they have imagined their wealth has given them some ordained authority to lecture their customers regarding morals. Entertainers are paid to entertain. If I want to be lectured on morality, I will visit a church.
This isn't much different than people who have obtained wealth in any number of other professions. Or perhaps you feel only rich businessmen should be able to lobby politicians or influence public discourse on important topics?
That isn't really fair, as you perhaps feel no rich people should have undo influence on politics in general. That is a nice idea, but not one I ever see being realistic in practice.
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"The average sports player is more of a master of their craft than the vast majority of engineers or doctors...."
Are they? Or did they simply win the genetic lottery in terms of size, height, reaction speed, and so on?
Regardless, I don't really care if people want to pay to watch grown men or women hit a ball or run up and down a field or drive around in circles. I do, however, question whether or not a significantly large percentage of a school's educational budget should be devoted to athletics, stadiums,
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Please define "significantly large percentage" of a school's budget. I believe you are simply guessing at the economics behind school athletics and really don't know what you're talking about.
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Or did they simply win the genetic lottery in terms of size, height, reaction speed, and so on?
As opposed to those who won the genetic lottery in terms of intelligence, or their parents' socioeconomic status?
I do, however, question whether or not a significantly large percentage of a school's educational budget should be devoted to athletics [...]
My personal opinion is also that schools spend too much time / money on athletics, but that hardly has bearing on whether we should care about players as human beings or about the importance of their profession. Right now NCAA Division I universities apparently spend about 5% of their budgets on athletics [air.org], or about $6 billion total. That is closer to 1% of all post-secondary spending in the US, a
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bunch of grown ass children
Yes, the proper way for a grown-up to use their leisure time is to smoke a pipe while having an earnest discussion about the merits of Modern Monetary Theory.
Or perhaps we should heed the words of C.S.Lewis;
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
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I find it amusing how the MLB players are acting now. There seems to be something of a revolt against the league. First they threatened to walk and start their own league. I'd actually have liked to see that, how this market would work (or not work) with competition. I guess that scared the league enough, because now they're fighting over whether they'll have 30 games or 40. Personally, if I was in that situation, I would welcome having the extra vacation, a few less concussions, and still making enough mon
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just rerun last years game, its already proven these drunken retards are just there to scream and act even dumber, doubt they know what actually happened in the game
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I think they should pipe in audio from people watching the game and mix it together.