When we got internet
service in our home, our ISP threw in the wireless router gratis. And if
an object is so inexpensive that AT&T is willing to give it away
for free, I suspect a multi-million-dollar sports business could afford
to spring for a couple for the fans in the stands.
The stadium’s WiFi was never super reliable, but a couple of weeks
before the All Star Game it disappeared completely. Or to be more
precise, the locked nodes for the press and the luxury boxes were still
visible, but the open node for the rest of us had vanished. No big deal,
I figured. They need extra bandwidth for the media when the circus
comes to town, and things will get back to normal after the break.
Sadly, the normal things got back to was the Royals’ normal lack of
respect for their fans.
The open WiFi never came back. To be honest, not having it was pretty
much the same as having it. The only big inconvenience for me was that
now I have to manually enter lineups in iScore rather than downloading
them automatically. But I can easily get the lineups from ESPN via my
phone and transfer them to the scoring software. In truth, manual
copying is probably less trouble than the complicated routine that used
to be required to hook up to the WiFi.
So perhaps I should be thanking our cheapskate franchise for making me less dependent on it.
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