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Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens (mlblogs.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the take-me-out-with-the-cloud dept.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will try a high-tech giveaway for their September 21st game: "Digital Bobblehead Night." DevNull127 quotes the digital editor for the Los Angeles Dodgers: While supplies last at guest's point of entry, the first 40,000 ticketed fans in attendance will receive a card with a unique code and directions to a website where a digital bobblehead can be unlocked and added to their Ethereum wallet. The player Crypto token received will be randomly selected, with approximately an equal number of Kershaw, Turner and Jansen codes distributed at the stadium gates.

"We're excited for our first-ever Crypto giveaway, and to explore an entirely new marketplace with our fanbase," said Lon Rosen, Dodger Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. "We hope this piques the interest of Dodger fans, and will help launch a new age of digital collectibles and promotions."
That stadium already has another high-tech gimmick: Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot, who reportedly was "called up to the Majors" to help feed hungry baseball fans by cooking up fried chicken tenders and tater tots.

51 comments

  1. Just give me the damn bobblehead by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0

    Can you imagine taking your son to the ballpark on Bobblehead Night, and you paid $90 for two tickets, $35 to park, another $50 on two hotdogs, two beers, a couple of cokes and maybe a bag of peanuts and some jackoff tells you you're getting a "virtual bobblehead" added to your "Ethereum wallet", whatever the fuck that is?

    That happens and this is how they're taking me out of the ballpark:

    https://youtu.be/j2zlPNGuPbw

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    1. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2

      ... you're getting a "virtual bobblehead" added to your "Ethereum wallet", whatever the fuck that is?

      Perhaps you haven't heard of things like Cryptokitties and that People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain -- oh, and that people are stupid.

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    2. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Perhaps you haven't heard of things like Cryptokitties [wikipedia.org] and that People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain [techcrunch.com] -- oh, and that people are stupid.

      I'm starting to understand how Trump got elected.

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    3. Re: Just give me the damn bobblehead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm starting to understand how Trump got elected.

      No you aren't.

    4. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Spot on,sir

    5. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      My answer to that. Wake up, don't be a fool. Taking you child to the ballpark to pay to watch others play and have fun is stupid. Take your child to the ballpark and with other parents and their children and play baseball. Spectator sports selling rubbish are so last millennium, this millennium is all about participation, participating as much as you can. There ain't no real fun in watching others have fun, you are just being sold, not once but thrice over, one to longer participate in sport directly, two you paid to watch and three they sell you rubbish whilst there and we are not talking the bad food, all the advertising (the silly crap people will believe, yeah, paying to watch others have fun is the best thing in the world, no it ain't, you have been sold, you have been conned into believing nonsense, want to have fun, participate don't watch).

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    6. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 1

      Can you imagine taking your son to the ballpark on Bobblehead Night, and you paid $90 for two tickets, $35 to park, another $50 on two hotdogs, two beers, a couple of cokes and maybe a bag of peanuts and some jackoff tells you you're getting a "virtual bobblehead" added to your "Ethereum wallet", whatever the fuck that is?

      While we are having videos, we need les crypto-bobbleheads and more Sausage races. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      Everyone had a good time, except for the poor chorizo.

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    7. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2

      Yes, it happened because the Left considers the American people stupid and wishes to harm them. Apparently you learned nothing from the experience. Sneering contempt is not how to win people over to your side. I also note the TDS in a thread about cryptography.

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    8. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0

      Taking you child to the ballpark to pay to watch others play and have fun is stupid.

      Who hurt you? Was it a member of the St. Louis Cardinals? Did one of them touch you in the bad place? Don't be afraid to come forward. From what I hear, you're not alone.

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    9. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0

      Yes, it happened because the Left considers the American people stupid and wishes to harm them. Apparently you learned nothing from the experience. Sneering contempt is not how to win people over to your side. I also note the TDS in a thread about cryptography.

      I'm sure the president appreciates your willingness to spring to his defense at a moment's notice. Maybe someday he'll notice you.

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    10. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      While we are having videos, we need les crypto-bobbleheads and more Sausage races.

      Now you're talking.

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    11. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 1

      ". Sneering contempt is not how to win people over to your side. "

      It worked for Trump.

      MAGA

      My
      Lawyer
      Got
      Arrested

      MAGA

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    12. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      You neither addressed nor refuted anything I said. Democrats shitting in the mouths of the American people and calling us stupid is not going to work. It sure makes you feel good, though, doesn't it?

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    13. Re: Just give me the damn bobblehead by JoeRobe · · Score: 1

      That's kind of hard to argue, given then Twitch and esports competitions in general are taking off as we speak, and attracting many spectators.

      IMO, there is value in going somewhere to watch people that are the best at what they do perform at the peak of their abilities. Many athletes are great role models (anecdotal bad actors don't spoil the whole set), and I'm happy to bring my kid to see them perform.

      Specifically going to a ballpark is more than about the game. Did you know that if you go early during warmup, in a lot of stadiums you can go down near the dugout and get autographs? Many players (especially rookies) are happy to talk with you (/your kid). Most stadiums have activities for adults and kids that you can do (between innings or when the game gets boring, which happens sometimes). It can be a positive experience for any age.

      Are things way overpriced? Yes. Are there bad fans out there? Yes. Is the whole experience too expensive? Probably. If those are turnoffs for you for baseball, I suggest checking out your local minor league or independent league (if one is nearby). Tickets/food/beer are dirt cheap, there are tons of kids activities (if needed), the fans are generally more tame and enjoyable, and you can get closer to the field. The independent league stadium near where I used to live will even call you a cab and pay for it if you're worried that you shouldn't drive home. The quality of the sport isn't quite as good, but the experience (especially for kids) is arguably better.

      Of course none of this is a substitute for physical activity. Of course bring your kid to a park to play, whether it be organized sports or running around on a plan structure.

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    14. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 1

      Bullshit.
      Trump pulled exactly what you complained about the left.
      And continues to. Daily.

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    15. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      Do you have any actual arguments that address the meaning of what I'm saying? Or are you some kind of Russian bot that just replies with whataboutism?

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    16. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 1

      Hilarious.
      Only bot I see is thee. Who excuses the inexcusable.
      You were quite clear in your meaning. You are under the delusion that the other side is evil and trying to hurt people, while defending the party in power that is actively hurting people with their policies.
      You are yet another Trump apologist. As bad as the Obama apologists of the last administration.
      I need no argument, as the current administration has laid it all bare for all to see.
      Just another partisan hack.
      I hope one day the moderates wake up and realize we represent the best interests of the country and toss you extremists (left and right) out on your asses.

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    17. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      So, no arguments then. At least you changed from whataboutism to ad hominem attack. At no point did you address the substance of what I said, which is what makes me think I'm arguing with a bot. Good day, Ivan.

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    18. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 1

      Typical deflecting right winger. Auf Wiedersehen Nazi bot.

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    19. Re:Just give me the damn bobblehead by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      I've noted that sneering contempt is not a characteristic solely of the left.

      And I agree that the technique is not persuasive to the other side. It can be used as a communication for ones own tribes.

      I am annoyed, irritated and/or angry about the crap coming out both sides of the American Mouth.

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  2. Fuck the bobblehead dodgers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    BEAT LA's IMPLEMENTATION!

  3. wtf by thebullshitpatrol · · Score: 1

    I am so confused. How is virtual facebook garbage related to ethereum? I've only used other cryptocurrencies, but I can't imagine a wallet being anything other than a list of transactions.

    1. Re:wtf by ceoyoyo · · Score: 1

      It is a list of transactions. One of the transactions is "the owner of this wallet owns 1 x special limited edition digital bobblehead".

      Priceless no?

    2. Re:wtf by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      I own crypto-currencies and I'm staying the fuck away from Ethereum. They were able to reverse their fucking blockchain TWICE because of security problems.

      They should be offering "Facebook digital bobbleheads" instead because of all the people who will go watch the baseball game, the percentage of Facebook users is going to be much higher than Ethereum wallet owners.

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  4. Yeah, right by glitch! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Where is my bobblehead?"
    "Sir, tonight you are getting a special token to a digital bobblehead."
    "So I go to some web site where I can see my bobblehead?"
    "Well, no. First you need an Etherium wallet."
    "Where do I get this wallet, then?"
    "You have to download the wallet software and run it on your computer."
    "Then I can see my non-existent bobblehead?"
    "Well, sort of. It's in your wallet, and you know it's there."
    "F' that. Give me a real bobblehead."

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    1. Re: Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Skimpily-dressed brunette comes up: âoemay I please have a bobblehead?â She says in a voice so husky it could pull a sled.

    2. Re: Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Skimpily-dressed brunette comes up: âoemay I please have a bobblehead?â She says in a voice so husky it could pull a sled.

      ...and I push her out of the way to get to the blonde with the girlish soprano voice behind her.

    3. Re: Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Well, sort of. It's in your wallet, and you know it's there."
      "So it's mine? In my own wallet?"
      "Not really, you see, it's just a value in an array of a program that makes it seem like you have ownership because it doesn't reject your transfer function request."
      "(Already left)"

  5. They need to jazz up the game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The problem is that baseball has gone stale, and they haven't even run out of whole numbers.

    So let's start adding blerns to the game. And mutliball. And ban robots and their robosexual debuggers.

    Remember, don't date Robots. Brought to you by the space pope.

    1. Re: They need to jazz up the game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      prediction: most of those will land on the ground, and then in the trash.

  6. Um, thanks? by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

    ... the first 40,000 ticketed fans in attendance ...

    Maybe I'm missing something, but how many fans w/o tickets are usually in attendance? Seems like that's something to look into rather than giving out useless things like blockchain pets.

    ... will receive a card with a unique code and directions to a website ...

    Just what these people have always wanted, codes and URLs. Haven't they suffered enough? I mean, they're Dodgers / Baseball fans. :-)

    ... where a digital bobblehead can be unlocked and added to their Ethereum wallet.

    ... that'll look so good on my dashboard.

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  7. This should be good by olsmeister · · Score: 2

    Someone probably will "accidentally" leave some fake cards lying around at the stadium with alternate instructions that winds up draining the persons Ethereum wallet.

    1. Re:This should be good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If the person doesn't understand cryptocurrency security, it's likely they just installed the wallet app for this stupid promotion, so it's empty.

  8. Impending sign of the Apocalypse by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2

    We hope this piques the interest of Dodger fans, and will help launch a new age of digital collectibles and promotions.

    And The End then won't come soon enough - for Dodgers fans and the World ...

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  9. Too bad by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

    I thought maybe they’d be announcing the launch of a new crypto currency- Corey Coin.

    Also... a burger flipping robot? If there’s one food place that can well afford human employees, it’s a ballpark burger stand. Their prices are atrocious.

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  10. Lame by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How pathetic.

  11. Tonight you will dine on by fred911 · · Score: 1

    cutting edge Air biscuits.

    Everyone says they're great!

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  12. A ponzi pyramid crypto bubble by najajomo · · Score: 1

    Bubble vs. Ponzi Scheme

    Who was it that once said, there's a sucker born every minute?

    1. Re:A ponzi pyramid crypto bubble by uvajed_ekil · · Score: 2

      It's a bobble scheme, not a bubble. Try to keep up.

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  13. There goes creimer's retirement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He invested all his silver stacks into Funkopop stock right on the downslide!

    What a genius!

    1. Re:There goes creimer's retirement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      On the contrary, I plan to be able to retired in 2020. I told you creimertards how to do it but no, you were to smart to listen!

      I find AmazonTM the gretest thing since sliced bread and helps taking care of my health at retirement with the Amazon long tail revenue streams!
      All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. You can even make video of yourself going to pick up AmazonTM parcel at the convenience store and post it on your youtube channel for more redundant revenue streams.

      They also have a wide supply, the best of latte and clif/power bars at the best cost, espicially if you make a friend buy them for you with your own affiliate link!

      Also, I still use my iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete and I use it to make my videos on youtube. As a Sprint very special customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always give me a new iPhone for free if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.

      I use PhotoShop daily!

      I have a hearing loss in one ear, so my audio will always be suspect. I use a Zoom H2 audio recorder with a pop filter 12" away from my mouth, Audacity to clean up and normalize the audio, and sync the audio to the video and apply a "voice enhancement" eq to the audio in the video editor.

      My PC has an eight-core processor and a Nvidia 1050 Ti 4GB video card. A minute of 1080p video renedered on the processor takes a minute. A minute of 1080p video rendered on the Nvidia card takes 10 seconds. I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.

      I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.

      Blackmagic also charges high prices for their gear as Apple does. Need an HDMI to USB3 capture device? Blackmagic is $300. Any generic company is $50.

      I take public transit. A local bus take me down the street to pick up the express bus, the express bus drops me off in Palo Alto, and a local bus take me down the street to my job. An hour each way. Driving through Palo Alto during rush hour is insane. Since I work in government I.T., I start work at 7:00AM.

      Bonus: get some silver coins, view recommendations on my special Youtube channel dedicated to the topic! They constitute a fail-safe insurance strategy for your retirement!
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  14. Can I get ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... blockchain with that?

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  15. Here to watch the Game! by dohzer · · Score: 1

    You think I came here to watch Baseball? Ha! Where's my free thing?!

  16. Dodgers fail again by uvajed_ekil · · Score: 1

    The Dodgers have failed again, this time by playing someone out of position. If the fucking robot's name is Flippy, and he's literally a burger flipping machine, why the hell do they have him making goddamn chicken tenders and fucking tater tots!?!? It's no wonder they're not in position to make the playoffs, with management like that.

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    1. Re:Dodgers fail again by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Rename it TateryMcTaterTotsFace.

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  17. 2 weeks later: "STUNNED FAN MAKES $720 SALE..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "... from free digital bobblehead! Is this the start of a goldrush era in crypto merch?"

    What will be reported:
    How a bunch of regular old fanbros just paid their mortgage from selling wack-ass crypto bobblehead things that suddenly everyone wants
    How easy it is to trade these tokens if you just go to $promoterPortalDisguisedAsFanBlog and follow helpful wallet creation wizard steps

    What won't be reported:
      "stunned fan" (along with 2 or 3 others who were helpfully introduced to the article's author) was a plant by the promoters of the bobblehead scam, who directly or through sockpuppets hold 20-50% of the total liquid supply so as to play chart wizardry with the price at will,
    and/or: article author was approached with "free samples," a personal tech walkthrough of the crypto-bobblehead trading process to "try it out and just have some fun," and 75% of the article copy pre-written to help him/her spin^H^H^H^H explain all the futurist crypto-hustle jargon to the readers

  18. 2 weeks later: "STUNNED FAN MAKES $720 SALE..." by The+voice+of+Reason. · · Score: 1

    "... from free digital bobblehead! Is this the start of a goldrush era in crypto merch?"

    What will be reported:
    How a bunch of regular old fanbros just paid their mortgage from selling wack-ass crypto bobblehead things that suddenly everyone wants
    How easy it is to trade these tokens if you just go to $promoterPortalDisguisedAsFanBlog and follow helpful wallet creation wizard steps

    What won't be reported:
    "stunned fan" (along with 2 or 3 others who were helpfully introduced to the article's author) was a plant by the promoters of the bobblehead scam, who directly or through sockpuppets hold 20-50% of the total liquid supply so as to play chart wizardry with the price at will,
    and/or: article author was approached with "free samples," a personal tech walkthrough of the crypto-bobblehead trading process to "try it out and just have some fun," and 75% of the article copy pre-written to help him/her spin^H^H^H^H explain all the futurist crypto-hustle jargon to the readers

    (repost from unexpectedly AC-ified session, thanks New Chrome)

  19. What got Trump elected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What got Trump elected was talking down other people's opinions. When you refuse to respect those who have non-SJW conserns, what other choice do they have but to turn towards special groups and become more "radicalized"?

    1. Re:What got Trump elected by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      What got Trump elected was ...

      Here is what really got Trump elected, explained by a peer-reviewed study:

      https://jamanetwork.com/journa...

      Findings: This cross-sectional analysis of a national sample of Medicare claims data found that chronic use of prescription opioid drugs was correlated with support for the Republican candidate in the 2016 US presidential election. Individual and county-level socioeconomic measures explained much of the association between the presidential vote and opioid use.

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  20. Brilliant move by Trogre · · Score: 1

    I'm sure little Johnny will appreciate that when grampa takes him to the ball game.

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  21. Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That doesn't flip burgers, but cooks chicken tenders and tater tots?

    I think the Dodgers need a new marketing manage.