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Originally Posted by SmknJoe7

I'm lmao just thinking about the Tribe getting introduced with big, gushing flames shooting out of the scoreboard and some ADD hophead boinking around the field with a megaphone screaming "Lemme hear it for your 2010 Columbus Bisons...err...I mean Cleveland Indians!!" Maybe they even get Acta and Peralta to lead a seventh inning Samba line

Honestly, I really don't mind the theatrics that most NBA arenas have taken on, but some of the halftime shows are downright idiotic. Just give me the mascot flying 20 feet through air on his way to stuffing his arm down the rim and I'm entertained enough for 10-15 minutes. I like how they catch people doing stupid shit like picking their nose or something and throwing it up on the big board, too. Good stuff.

But, yeah, that Diff thing is quite possibly thee single dumbest thing I have ever seen ever put on any sport's scoreboard. Just awful.

I thought the diff was pretty dumb when they first added it, but I kind of like it now. It really doesn't matter if you calculate it in your head or see it on a scoreboard, the difference in score is more important than the actual score itself. Some people either aren't that good with math or are too young to know math that well - like my youngest daughter. She likes the diff. And when we come back from behind and take the lead, they often put the diff on the big screen (which is actually right below where it already is) and it gets a good reaction from the crowd.

And from the indians games I go to, they could use something to liven up the crowd. The cavs often draw energy from the crowd, sometimes the crowd needs some encouragement to bring that energy. At one indians game I went too a couple of years go, the crowd didn't get into it at all until 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th with a couple of guys on base. The next pitch the game was over.