Baseball game at Petco Park, SD

On Saturday, we went to a softball game between San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamond that took place at the Petco Park, a ball stadium in the heart of downtown San Diego. It was not a good day for the Padres, since the game was ended with victory on the Diamond side, left the final score 5-3 after the last inning. In San Diego (yet, I believe that this is the typical situation in US), a professional game is managed to be both a sport

game and an entertainment to its spectators. Let's take the Petco Park as an example. The giant LED screen up the podium provides all informations about the game score, the up-close player face who is in striker position or pitcher position (together with infos about their history & record), and other stimulants to encourage spectator to become more vigor. The display also gave a command when the spectators need to waive, punch their feet to the floor, gave spirit to their team, etc altogether with the appearanced of the game mascot. In additional, the display also showed a short-visual game during break time to entertain the spectator. That was simply a boat race with 3 sailing boats involved, and the boats were sailing for a few moment and we had to guess which boat would ended up as a winner before they touched the finish line. The other entertainment during the break time was one of the field cleaner task force, suddenly turn into a good dancer in the middle of the field, dancing in front of spectators followed by a famous dance song aired by the stadium sound system. The other interesting thing was the stadium provided sufficient food stands for few segment of people. It was an interesting idea, to combine a sport game with simple entertainment and food, with a primary goal that people come were coming as part of their recreation (not just seeing a sport game), they will revisit the other game, and the stadium elicits sufficient revenue to cover its costs.