New Yankee Stadium to be outfitted with PS3s and Sony branding

For realizing they are a business and should try to profit the way businesses ought to? Go right on hating...Oh, and by the way, the Yankees are one of the few baseball franchises that actually invests its profits back into its business.

The Yankees had a choice at one point. They could either spend no money and hope fans show up or they could spend a lot of money, draw 4 million+ fans every season, reinvest in big name players, open a new state-of-the-art facility, start a vastly successful regional sports network (which also generates revenue for them), and put a good product on the field, all while encouraging legions of fans to tune into their games to root against them (or in some cases, FOR them!). And among all of that, they haven't broken any rules. Boston broke one just recently...they signed a 22 year old amateur Japanese player, breaking an agreement with Japan that will likely cost MLB some future amateur talent, as some will be swooped away to play Japanese ball.

I guess it's good for the "Empire" to play the villain and be able to raise such passionate feelings amongst baseball fans and casual sports fans alike. It's probably better than a team no one could care about annually, like the Royals.

I get that you hate a combination of Sony, the Yankees, and/or baseball. There's a comeback here, but I'm not sure you have much of a point, seeing as there are at least 35,000 fans in the ballpark during a game at any given time who would disagree with you on the "mildly entertaining" comment. But yes, if a casual fan is "mildly entertained," good for them. For a fanatic like me, I wouldn't even venture to the PS3 area, I'd already be excited as hell for the game. And if someone else were treating me for the day, I might even eat in the ballpark restaurant after the game.

I agree.

Welcome to the Land of Companies that are "Cool" to Hate. Allow me to introduce you to the others; there's Nintendo over there ignoring everyone, Activision and EA drinking coffee and discussing how to run their franchises into the ground, Microsoft spazzing out in the corner, etc.

Besides, it all goes in waves. There were months when it was nothing but praise for the PS3. Just like there were months with all Nintendo praise or all Microsoft praise.

Moptimus said ...

"There were months when it was nothing but praise for the PS3."

Please refresh my memory. I have been coming to this site for at least two years now and as far as I can remember that never happened.

Nintendo had some backlash after E3 this year but that was really the only time it got out of control.

Microsoft had it after the RROD warranty fiasco but even that didn't last beyond a short time.

Sony has been getting bad since I have been coming to this site but in the last 2 months it has gotten exponentially worse.

The same could be said about Microsoft and Nintendo posts really. I don't see your point here.

If you don't see my point then you don't come here much anymore.

Perhaps it is because I'm busy running my own place or that I don't really do the fanboy thing for any system. Just seems there are plenty of people making comments of Microsoft being evil, Sony being liars and Nintendo abusing it's sheep. I don't see the need to defend any of these companies, they couldn't care less what you think.

Moptimus wins this one,

And Sony got on the collective "good side" after E3 08, when the Sony and Microsoft people took time off from their struggles to take the easy potshots at obvious targets

@el serpiente
"And the funny thing is, it's always the same 3 or 4 people." and you're one of them.

I own all the systems el serpiente and enjoy them. I don't think I really need to argue with a known troll to make my point.

They are doing so because they want to piss off people.Trolling fanboys must be one of the easiest things to acomplish.

The solution:

Vote down,move on or counter-troll in case you know how to do it.

I don't think anyone really hates those corps with such passion unless they used to work for them or they happen to be really angsty.

@Anticrawl

Just because you own all three consoles doesn't mean your not a fanboy. Just saying ...

@Moptimus

I don't think that's really the case. More than anything I see The Serpent replying to others post's as opposed to trolling in every 360 or Wii thread. In fact, he is usually in PS3 threads.

I think he was talking about the usual Vespers who come out of left field with the same dumb shit.

For an Example -

Let's say there was a post about some new Avatar clothes for the NXE. If he just came in and said ("HA HA HA WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT CONSOLE. HAVE FUN PLAYING DRESS UP WITH YOUR GAY AVATARS BITCHES. AND REMEMBER KIDS ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT HOUSE FIRES BY TURNING OFF YOUR 360. ENJOY YOUR OBSOLETE HD DVD MOVIE PLAYER YOU HOLIER THAN THOU HYPOCRITES") I would agree he is one of the people doing what I'm speaking of. More than anything he just throws out 1 liner replies.

I won't even mention any names but I'm sure most of you know the people that do this stuff.

The second part of my most recent comment was actually intended for Alien Lord not Moptimus Slime.

Alien Lord is one of the people I was talking about who does nothing but troll the PS3 with little room for actual discussion.

totally agree........if I wasnt an owner of numerous consoles I wouldnt even come to Joystiq.....just go to PS3 Fanboy......

You're all retarded for even discussing this

and mcpoop, whats with the douch'ish pic

there is time before the game, between double headers, rain delays

The reason you actually go to a ballpark is to do anything but watch baseball. Get drunk, eat all sorts of things, screw around, hey, play PS3 or DS (if at Safeco field) but don't watch baseball

I agree with Mr Khan.

People got here to enjoy a show,eat and do things with the family.In fact it gives an excuse for social interaction and quality time with the family.

el serpiente as much as I enjoy reading your comments and as much as we all enjoy of your social service of troll denouncing you are starting to sound like those guys in TF2 that call everyone a Spy.

Oh no Che me has ofendido che.

(Un poco más arriva pero no en la misma parte del Continente y le das)

You can? Hah, that sounds pretty cool. Come to think of it, I think they're doing the same exact thing for the high-priced seats in the new Yankee Stadium. Good to know that if I can ever afford such a seat, I don't have to travel to Seattle to experience that service.

The DS integration at Safeco is really, really cool. In addition to ordering food and drinks you can watch the live video feed directly on your DS screen, access up-to-the-minute stats and scores, play trivia. It really enhances the experience. The live feed is especially cool because it's on a ten second or so delay, so you can be watching the game in front of you, and when a really interesting play happens you can see it up close immediately afterwards from different angles or whatever and hear the commentary on your handheld without having to look around for a TV.

Hopefully they implement something similar at Yankee Stadium with PSPs; that'd be really cool.

Would you kindly point me in the direction of a SEGA brand TV?

Actually, if they're copying anybody, it's the Nationals, who had PS3 in their new ballpark last season.

Maybe if the Indians looked into these kind of business deals they could afford to keep some of their star players. You forgot to include the title "Future Yankee" Cliff Lee in your post. I'll tell CC you send your regards...

And what you just said is one reason why a baseball team would want to do such a thing. They don't care if you actually come to watch the game. You can check out their PS3 setup, you can eat in their restaurants, buy merchandise, get drunk, get arrested...bottom line, they have your money. It's a cold approach, calculating, and some may say detrimental to the sport, until they realize that the profits are being put back onto the field so that the diehard fans in the cheap seats and watching at home are treated with something to root for on a yearly basis.

I'm a huge Yankee fan, obviously. I watch every game. I can't get to the Bronx too often, but I try to do so at least once a year. There are $40 seats out in right field that sit right on top of the players. I can afford that. Otherwise, there are $14 bleacher seats that I can definitely afford. The only trick for me is getting multiple seats for a game that isn't yet sold out when tix go on sale, and then transportation and parking can be costly and a bitch but that's to be expected. My point is, I can still go and enjoy the game while the fan with A.D.D. can find reasons to go and be entertained.