New Ribbon Board Costly, Incredibly Thin
The DiamondHacks, like most everyone else, have installed an expensive digital "ribbon" ad board which wraps around the second deck at Chase Ho Park. It is so long that it easily accomodated thirteen identical advertisements for Sexton Pest Control simultaneously, with room for a fourteenth Sexton Pest Control ad when absolutely necessary.
Another application that we were subjected to at a recent game were the board's partial, I guess you call 'em 'portraits', of staff ace, Brandon Webb.
In the first inning, the 6' 2" Webb looked something like this:
In the third inning, the tiny crowd was treated to this image of the affable Kentucky native:
DiamondHacks heartily applauds this overdue splash of cubism at the ballpark, a venue otherwise devoid of much artistry.
Uh-Oh, I can see a new between-inning game they can play with that ribbon board. Show the player from the eyes up and guess who it is. It can either be the home or visiting team. Just what baseball needs, more "fun" at the game!
Kellia
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Heh...doesnt sound half bad, actually.
I'm pretty sure I can identify Bob Melvin just from his ears.
Deep down, Kellia, you really are a merciless marketing maven ;-)
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I went to opening day I was proud of our fans. Why? When the pres-o-dent of Chase came out to announce the new name everyone booed. It was great. Then people started throwing paper airplanes and that was that.
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Sounds like the fans fixed that pres-o-dent good. Maybe he'll get demoted to Fix-o-dent.
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Matt,
If I were a merciless marketing maven, my publioc affairs CDs would sell like hotcakes, and I would think nothing of dropping $200+ on an authentic Byrnes jersey, even as I argue (as I will in a few days) that the D'Backs' should trade him pronto.
Actually, I think Chase Field is a better name than Bank One Ballpark, even though people called it The Bob for short. With the name Chase, you can pretend the park is named after a person rather than a bank.
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"...with Chase, you can pretend the park is named after a person..."
BOB is at least as anthropomorphic as CHASE, no?
I guess we can still pretend, as long as we dont pretend it's named after this guy
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Chase_Hal.stm
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I wasn't thinking of that Chase at all, but I was thinking that Chase is a preppie, Yuppie name that fits the type of folks who can afford the trip to the ballpark without making it the occasion of debt that many of Pheonix's Bobs and Bobettes have to make it.
Then again, if going to the ballpark were cheap, we won't have those "cute" MasterCard commercials about it, would we?
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