Starting this baseball season, SBC will offer free Wi-Fi at SBC Park, formerly known as Pacific Bell Park. Next year they start charging. As SBC is a telco, it kind of makes sense, but isn’t the point to watch the game? Are we so attention challenged that we’ll pay for entertainment and then pay for something else to do instead? Someone on Slashdot wondered how long it would take for the first lawsuit due to someone getting smacked by a foul ball and saying they didn’t see it coming because their face was buried in their laptop.

I modified “Take me out to the ballgame” to reflect our new reality.

Take me out to the ballgame.
Take me out with my chain.
Buy me some wi-fi and garlic fries,
I don’t care if I never get back,
I can work, work, work for my company,
At home, at play and on train,
I am here but,
I didn’t see a thing
At the old ballgame.