This past weekend, I had the chance to watch the NCAA tournament on a gigantic projection screen. It was probably the best set up I have ever been a part of, other than my freshman year in college, when my roommate and I put two TVs side by side in our tiny dorm room so we could play PS2 and watch TV at the same time. You don’t want to miss the campus movie channel — they might play Good Will Hunting for the 35th time!

Those are nice setups. The new Yankee Stadium TV situation is a whole ‘nother thing:

Taken by a local CBS affiliate in New York, the pics show early tests of the 103-by-58-foot, 1080p HD Mitsubishi Diamond Vision LED display, which is six times larger than the screen at old Yankee Stadium. According to Mitsubishi, the display is embedded with 8,601,600 LED lamps (covering a total of 5,925 square feet), and can put up to four simultaneous images, with picture-in-picture capabilities.

The Wired story says that “some” — though who is never actually specified — are worried that the TV screen will take away from the game. When you look at the photo, that’s hard to deny. I already have a natural penchant for gazing at electronic things. They’re shiny, and they flicker, and hold on my phone just beeped and back to the laptop oh I got a direct message on Twitter better reply and ooh someone reblogged me oh neat wow check out Discovery Channel in HD and AHHH I CAN’T STOP.

Some day in the future, when we’re all poor, large corporations will build enormous stadiums with monstrous state-of-the-art TVs, and we will watch sporting events. The events will take place elsewhere. We’ll just be there for the TVs. That is, as long as they let me bring my laptop in; I don’t want to get too far behind on my RSS feeds.

(HT: FirstCuts)