Saturday, June 07, 2003

Ballpark cell phones


Does it irritate you if, say, you're at an Astros game and someone near you starts yakking on a cell phone? Do you want to rip the phone out of the yakker's hand and toss it onto the field and tell the offending party that if he paid more attention to the pitch count instead of speaking loudly on his cell about the hot new girl at the office, that maybe everyone around him would enjoy the game more? Would you change your mind if you could order your hot dog and Coca-Cola with your cellphone, thereby avoiding the possibility of missing a play that determined the outcome of the game? Some day soon you may have that opportunity, according to the Wall Street Journal, which says some minor league teams are enabling fans to punch in a code on their cell phones to order their food from their seats. Not a bad idea. Now, if only your cell phone could take a piss for you, you wouldn't miss a pitch.

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