New Lynah scoreboard

[David Harding]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

[Swampy]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

Maybe it's not been just a scoreboard all along. Maybe it's a target.

[Jim Hyla]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

Maybe it's not been just a scoreboard all along. Maybe it's a target.

Or more likely, maybe it's a deflection.

[scoop85]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

Maybe it's not been just a scoreboard all along. Maybe it's a target.

Or more likely, maybe it's a deflection.

Or maybe it's a klutz during intramurals

[Give My Regards]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

Maybe it's not been just a scoreboard all along. Maybe it's a target.

Or more likely, maybe it's a deflection.

Or maybe it's a klutz during intramurals

I heard a radio ad for Cornell Hockey this afternoon.  Swear to god it contains the phrase "don't miss the new scoreboard'

[TimV]

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

God, I hope so.  It hasn't been in the past.::bang::

[ugarte]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

got a lot of responses but if this is the tone i think it was meant to be it is the only one i'm crediting. if it is not in that tone, then i have to give it to swampy for telling the joke i thought david was telling.

[Swampy]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

got a lot of responses but if this is the tone i think it was meant to be it is the only one i'm crediting. if it is not in that tone, then i have to give it to swampy for telling the joke i thought david was telling.

Well, I thought my joke was more subtle. David implied the team has been deliberately shooting at the scoreboard. Before submitting my post, I tried very hard to find a good graphic of a target on a screen to imply that it's the scoreboard that's deliberately designed to double as a target.

[jtwcornell91]

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

Actually, the visual ad creep doesn't bug me that much; indeed, I've chuckled at more than a few over-urinal ads. I can look at them or ignore them.

But audio ad creep and audio intrusions (like "Jock Jams" shoved into every stoppage) make me want to tear out patch cables and kick over amps. The idiots who think "it's just one short ad" or that they're "giving the people what they want" don't seem to realize that what they're actually doing is suppressing crowd involvement. And none of us can just "ignore them." That's not the way our ears work.

It's all anti-human.

Minor league baseball was basically ruined by this by around the late 90s.

[billhoward]

Scoreboard theatrics, water balloon tosses and players who spent time signing autographs got our kids to like Triple-A baseball (Somerset Patriots) as much as going to see the Yankees.

That said I could see the Lynah Rink scoreboard devolving. Cornell is the Ivy League but some of the people who administer Cornell and staff it think at the lowest-common denominator. If you got into the Ivy League you don't need flashing signage telling you to stand up and cheer. One could see a warning, "Do not throw fish at the Harvard players," would lead to fish being tossed at the scoreboard or at Ted Donato.

[Trotsky]

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

Actually, the visual ad creep doesn't bug me that much; indeed, I've chuckled at more than a few over-urinal ads. I can look at them or ignore them.

But audio ad creep and audio intrusions (like "Jock Jams" shoved into every stoppage) make me want to tear out patch cables and kick over amps. The idiots who think "it's just one short ad" or that they're "giving the people what they want" don't seem to realize that what they're actually doing is suppressing crowd involvement. And none of us can just "ignore them." That's not the way our ears work.

It's all anti-human.

Minor league baseball was basically ruined by this by around the late 90s.

Also Junior Hockey.

It's crept into MLB now, too.  There has to be noise between EVERY pitch.  The entire experience is now pitched to 6-year olds.  I'm sure the algorithms (developed by Cornell HumEcies) show rats hit the feeder bar more frequently when bombarded by constant noise.  God bless consumerism.

I assume symphonies now have piped in crowd noise and movie clips between movements.

[Dafatone]

We should have screens above the urinals, obviously. And why not add ear-splitting advertisements, preferably with soulless techno: "This bathroom brought to you by Shortline! We gooooooooooo the distance!"

Apparently you haven't been to an NHL or AHL arena recently.  You can be sure there will be ads above the urinals.

Actually, the visual ad creep doesn't bug me that much; indeed, I've chuckled at more than a few over-urinal ads. I can look at them or ignore them.

But audio ad creep and audio intrusions (like "Jock Jams" shoved into every stoppage) make me want to tear out patch cables and kick over amps. The idiots who think "it's just one short ad" or that they're "giving the people what they want" don't seem to realize that what they're actually doing is suppressing crowd involvement. And none of us can just "ignore them." That's not the way our ears work.

It's all anti-human.

Minor league baseball was basically ruined by this by around the late 90s.

Also Junior Hockey.

It's crept into MLB now, too.  There has to be noise between EVERY pitch.  The entire experience is now pitched to 6-year olds.  I'm sure the algorithms (developed by Cornell HumEcies) show rats hit the feeder bar more frequently when bombarded by constant noise.  God bless consumerism.

I assume symphonies now have piped in crowd noise and movie clips between movements.

Some teams do better than others with noise in MLB. An organ is a nice touch. "EVERYBODY CLAP YOUR HANDS" is not.

[ugarte]

Make that two times the scoreboard has been hit with a puck and damaged

It's a start.

i know it's still the preseason but i really hope shooting accuracy is a point of emphasis going forward

Maybe it has been.

got a lot of responses but if this is the tone i think it was meant to be it is the only one i'm crediting. if it is not in that tone, then i have to give it to swampy for telling the joke i thought david was telling.

Well, I thought my joke was more subtle. David implied the team has been deliberately shooting at the scoreboard. Before submitting my post, I tried very hard to find a good graphic of a target on a screen to imply that it's the scoreboard that's deliberately designed to double as a target.

i made my ruling

[billhoward]

Some teams do better than others with noise in MLB. An organ is a nice touch. "EVERYBODY CLAP YOUR HANDS" is not.

Well thank you for not making a Florida-Congressman joke.

[Trotsky]

Some teams do better than others with noise in MLB.

The ones who blare the bit from The Natural after a home homerun or walk off are the worst.  It sucks all the actual excitement out of the moment and replaces it with cornball Disney generic treacle.

Just let the ambient crowd noise define the moment you fucking MBA assholes.  Real life is captivating .  It does not need your programmed lard.