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Yankee Stadium's iPad-Averse Policies Will Force You To Pay Attention To The Field
Yankee Stadium has banned the iPad from its confines, citing its previously announced nixing of laptops as the reason for doing so. The most surprising aspect of this development? Commenters on the geek-"news" site Mashable are actually being sort of reasonable about the whole thing! "If you want to be THAT person with the iPad at a game, go right ahead," said one person; "What about leaving a bit internet and enjoying real life?!" exclaimed another. Could we be seeing the initial stages of early-adopter technology fatigue? Or are the contrarian impulses of commenter culture having their circuits blown by this development? [Pic via]
Seriously? Is there any length this club won't go to in order to be giant assholes?
They wouldn't let a guy go piss when that fat bastard was warbling through "God Bless America," now this?
Next: Breathing is banned, for fear it will throw off arod's fragile stance.
(Also: how did these assholes build an eleventy jillion dollar stadium — with taxpayer funds — and not have enough wireless coverage?)
That is a question that you could ask of the Mets as well.
Having sat behind a pleated-khaki glued to his Pad at the Nats/O's game the other night, I can actually get behind this.
I would generally agree with this, except I've scrambled to games with friends who are also scrambling out of work with briefcases in tow. In those briefcases are laptops that don't get through security and you then spend the next 30 minutes running around those shady hole in the walls to find a locker to rent or whatever you do there. It sucks!
Getting game tickets are often spontaneous and often come with the compromise of leaving work early and making it up later that night, which means sometimes hauling the laptop home that night. I'd have less argument if they just said you can't open the laptop in the stands. I'm not even a fancy laptop owning person anymore but I hate security telling me what I can and do even if my tickets were freebies from someone else's sales guy…
BUT, I will conceed that an iPad is not really a work related appliance in the way a laptop is, so I see less of a point of heading to the ballpark with it to begin with.
I was stopped at the Yankees/Rays game on the way in for having an ipad. I had just come from work and would have left it there if I had known it was machina non grata.
The gate security told me that my only option was to go to a bowling alley a few blocks down and store it in a rental locker there.
Not being a rube, I decided that this plan was ridiculous and went to another gate, after hiding the ipad under a re-usable shopping bag.
The girl at the next gate discovered it, and when she asked what it was I told her it was a Kindle.
"Go ahead in," she replied.
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