The Manic Mechanic

It was kind of a bipolar sort of weekend here. With poor Jeff getting stuck at work till late on Friday, we headed off to the new JP's Italian Restaurant nearby for dinner before heading back home and basically crashing for the night. Saturday was wonderful weather, the morning was spent working in the yard and garden, the afternoon was taken up with tinkering with the tractor, replacing broken and stripped bolts, tuning up, adjusting and otherwise fixing the old beast up for another season. That evening, we headed off to Oriole Park (which remains wonderfully bereft of some commercial behemoth's name on the signage) to watch the Orioles play the New York Yankees. Jeff, the resident eBay guru, snagged some cheap tix near the right field foul line, with a great view.



The latest addition to the ballpark is the amazing new high-definition video display and scoreboard. The displays' incredibly sharp video and static pictures have changed what the team can do with the scoreboard.



The upper, widescreen section is the scoreboard proper, it's display constantly changing between the scoreboard, player-at-bat promo and other info, with the main video display used for player stats, replays, closeups of the game action. The supplemental strip display at the bottom shows strikeouts, supplemental player info and ads depending on gameplay.



I apparently missed the scoreboard showing the fielding team's positions and names on the field alongside the batting team's roster and who's currently on deck, along with the actual scoreboard itself. The huge display area coupled with the fine resolution makes putting up unheard of amounts of info easier than ever. You will know where every player on both teams is out on that field at any given time. The old school game of baseball gets high tech.

As it stands, though, some traditional message boards will never change.



The Orioles ended up winning, 6-0. w00t!

Sunday ended up being nothing but rain and cold, so time was spent working inside the house, napping, grocery shopping (no Kosha Kola to be found anywhere), eating and having sex. Not necessarily in that order.

Here's hoping everyone has a good week.