Last weekend I saw a baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington, DC. Great, modern ballpark with lots of cool features, including Kosher and vegetarian concessions, free cell phone charging stations, and even a nursing mother's lounge. But I also noticed something odd - the park itself was actually pretty full that day, but a lot of the seats were empty for a good bit of the game.
How can this be, you ask? Well, most of it can be blamed on the great amenities - "rest areas" in the concourse with tables and cooling fans, the cell phone charging stations, the mother's lounge, not to mention the very long lines at concessions. So a lot of fans spent a good portion of the game in the concourse instead of actually watching the game. And that got me thinking - are the games themselves starting to lose our attention?
