Your favorite scoreboard

[neo_prankster]

It may be gone but it was always one of the best in my book

I'm still mystified as to why they never put the Jumbotron in the place where the Bud Light sign is in this photo.

[ElwoodCuse]

In this day and age, while it would be a nice fixture, you don't need to have out of town scoreboards at any stadia or arenas.

Sure you do. It's retro and cool and not as many people have smartphones as you think.

PNC Park does closed captioning too. I always love when they put up the Latin lyrics to O Fortuna.

[infrared41]

In the old baseball stadiums I always liked the scoreboards at Comiskey and Shea. For the modern stuff I think KC has the coolest looking scoreboard.

[crashcarson15]

In this day and age, while it would be a nice fixture, you don't need to have out of town scoreboards at any stadia or arenas.

Sure you do. It's retro and cool and not as many people have smartphones as you think.

PNC Park does closed captioning too. I always love when they put up the Latin lyrics to O Fortuna.

Oh man that's great. Absolutely great.

[BB61]

[WatsonTiger]

I can't deny it.

[infrared41]

So in reality this thread should have been called "Why my team's scoreboard is my favorite."

[BigMac12]

So in reality this thread should have been called "Why my team's scoreboard is my favorite."

I would of said US Aiways Center, Jobing.com Arena, Chase Field or University of Phoenix Stadium.

[Eye]

In this day and age, while it would be a nice fixture, you don't need to have out of town scoreboards at any stadia or arenas.

Sure you do. It's retro and cool and not as many people have smartphones as you think.

PNC Park does closed captioning too. I always love when they put up the Latin lyrics to O Fortuna.

I don't have a smartphone so I don't know how high that number would actually be, heh.

While I don't care if a ballpark shows the out of town scores, I don't care if it does either. And just because something is retro doesn't mean it's a good idea. If it's cool I say go for it, but to have out of town scores just for the sake of being retro could lend an unappealing look for a ballpark in an area or two.

[cmm]

In this day and age, while it would be a nice fixture, you don't need to have out of town scoreboards at any stadia or arenas.

Sure you do. It's retro and cool and not as many people have smartphones as you think.

PNC Park does closed captioning too. I always love when they put up the Latin lyrics to O Fortuna.

I don't have a smartphone so I don't know how high that number would actually be, heh.

While I don't care if a ballpark shows the out of town scores, I don't care if it does either. And just because something is retro doesn't mean it's a good idea. If it's cool I say go for it, but to have out of town scores just for the sake of being retro could lend an unappealing look for a ballpark in an area or two.

I like to have out-of-town scores so I know what's happening out-of-town, not for any retro reasons. When I'm in enemy territory (Yankee Stadium), I want to know how the Mets are doing. And when I'm at a Mets game, I want to know how the Phillies/Braves/whatever team they are in a race with if they're in a race are doing. I'll never forget keeping one eye on the field and one eye on the Brewers score on the last day of the 2008 season, since the Mets and Brewers were tied for the wild card. Right after the Mets fell behind, the Brewers took the lead. While I wasn't happy with the results, it was a lot of fun scoreboard watching.

Anyhoo, my favorite MLB scoreboard is Wrigley (ironic, since it doesn't fit every OOT game either...but it get a pass for being a classic).

[BBTV]

So in reality this thread should have been called "Why my team's scoreboard is my favorite."

Isn't that what the idiots turn all of these threads in to? It's one realignment, and a Saintsfan rule change proposal away from being a prototypical ccslc thread.

[jrh31584]

It may be gone but it was always one of the best in my book

That's an advertising board that happens to also have sports-related things along the periphery.

[Maz]

In this day and age, while it would be a nice fixture, you don't need to have out of town scoreboards at any stadia or arenas.

Sure you do. It's retro and cool and not as many people have smartphones as you think.

PNC Park does closed captioning too. I always love when they put up the Latin lyrics to O Fortuna.

It was even better when the "host" of the Legends and Celebrities Softball game a few years ago realized he was being closed captioned, and started saying random things to see if they'd put it up there.

[MNTwins]

Xcel Energy Center

Target Center

Metrodome

Target Field

[BrySmalls]

[The_Admiral]

Why is the Timberwolves' scoreboard a favorite? Near as I can tell it's pretty boilerplate.

[njmeadowlanders]

First of all, this discussion begins and ends with this:

Second of all, if you're going with the Shea Scoreboard, you HAVE to go with the classic edition over the post-1981 renovations:

It was the first of it's kind...and each individual character had to be "scrolled" through to change it or erase it (that's why you see the Expos lineup in the process of being turned off after the game). They DID have "preloaded" messages that they could even instantly display (such as the message in the above photo taken immediately after the Mets entered first place for the first time ever). Where the Met logo is at the top was originally the first ever video board in sports...it displayed the photo of the player and could show movies during rain delays. That aspect didn't even last the entire 1964 inaugural season.

[NJTank]

First of all, this discussion begins and ends with this:

Second of all, if you're going with the Shea Scoreboard, you HAVE to go with the classic edition over the post-1981 renovations:

It was the first of it's kind...and each individual character had to be "scrolled" through to change it or erase it (that's why you see the Expos lineup in the process of being turned off after the game). They DID have "preloaded" messages that they could even instantly display (such as the message in the above photo taken immediately after the Mets entered first place for the first time ever). Where the Met logo is at the top was originally the first ever video board in sports...it displayed the photo of the player and could show movies during rain delays. That aspect didn't even last the entire 1964 inaugural season.

I can agree with that sentiment.

[DEAD!]

First of all, this discussion begins and ends with this:

Now, THAT is awesome!

Oh what the heck... if we're going to post random scoreboards, I might was well post this:

[Dilbert]

The Cincinnati Gardens, sure it lacks a video board but its still one of my favorites