Well, what the hell is a “live alternative video feed” that excludes the broadcast feed? They got somebody in the stands with an iPhone?
Apparently this doesn’t include the ALWCG.
It has been a while, but my recollection is that you get to choose from a couple (maybe more than two – I’m really not sure anymore) camera angles. So you aren’t getting the broadcast view that changes from camera to camera based on the relevant action.
Ah…yes:
Who’s the woman in the broadcast booth? Never heard her before. She knows her stuff, though. She’s good.
If you want to watch all postseason games in their proper broadcast mode, do what i do: use a DNS service like Unlocator.
It routes your geographic location information through servers in other countries, so that it looks like your computer is not in the United States. MLB.tv only blocks games for American subscribers, so using this service allows me to watch all blackout games during the regular season, as well as all postseason games.
It’s not a proxy server, so it doesn’t route your actual internet traffic through a foreign server; only your location information. Your actual internet traffic still comes through its normal route, meaning that you get no slowdown in service.
They have a free trial (i think it’s one week), so you can test it out to see if you like it. I first tried it out specifically to watch the MLB postseason, but i now have a permanent subscription ($5 a month) because it also allows me to watch stuff like the BBC iPlayer, with all those great BBC shows.
In baseball news, i’m enjoying seeing the Astros up by 2 on two solo homers.
All of the league streaming services are very careful to protect their daddies, ESPN and the cable providers. If you can get all the games for just a few hundred dollars a year online in full HD, you may not be so likely to pay the average $1200 a year cable bill.
Back to baseball, Go 'Stros!
Woo hoo! Astros win it! Only need to have 11 more like that and they’ll have the title.
Two solo home runs and a bunch of pitching. More 2015 Astros than that win there is none.
Jessica Mendoza. She played softball (a slugging outfielder) for Stanford, and in the Olympics.
She got the job after Curt Schilling was dumped for his insights on the Muslim/Nazi comparison.
I didn’t care for her. I don’t think her experience in softball qualifies her as much to talk about baseball strategy and technique as she thinks it does. Not nearly as irritating as Beth Mowins on ESPN2 CFB but a pain nonetheless.
Predictable end for the Yankees. I think Girardi needs to manage differently when batters are slumping, try to manufacture more runs. Let the leadoff man try to slap a bunt down. Play some Billyball, get 'em on, get 'em over, get 'em in. Once a guy is on, if he has some speed, use it. When you’re not hitting, the old bloop and a blast offense doesn’t cut it. At the end of August, the Yankees were neither buyers nor sellers. Perhaps not buying this year cost them this year, but at least they didn’t sell the seed corn.
I’m hoping that this if finally Houston’s year. I’ve been waiting for them to win it all since I started following them the year of the heartbreaking 1986 NLCS loss.
The difference is Beth Mowins is play by play, which doesn’t require the knowledge of a former player. Actually, I think she and Pam Ward both do a fine job.
Mendoza, however, was providing color analysis. I agree she is not qualified and I think it showed. She didn’t have much to offer in terms of strategic insight. She’s basically the new Tim McCarver, telling us what we can plainly see for ourselves. And it’s no knock on her. She would probably be great for softball broadcasts, but she does not have the baseball experience to add value to my viewing experience. Luckily, John Kruk is a pretty good color analyst.
If you’re not hitting you’re not hitting. Really, you cannot manage a loser into a winner. Billyball doesn’t get you three runs.
The Yankees, frankly, did well to make the Wild Card Game. I figured they’d finish last or next to last. It is an enormous credit to Joe Girardi that they got the team to 87 wins.
I just read a couple of stories about her, and it seems there was a really ugly backlash, although most baseball people agreed that she was good.
I really liked the one inning of analysis the Rays pitcher provided, but if I had to listen to that for nine innings, I’d tear my hair out. And besides, he really didn’t say anything that Mendoza hadn’t already said, just more succinctly.
I don’t need ex-jocks with their phony over-emotional reaction to everything that happens on the field. Save that for the NFL. I’ll take understated and calm commentary any day. That’s baseball.
Here’s another story linked in the first that provides some analysis of her performance calling Jake Arrieta’s no-hitter on Sunday Night Baseball.
It’s decided now (7:30/6:30 CT) - but why different start times for Royals ALDS game (it would have been 8/7CT if the Yankees had won)? I assume ‘ratings’, but I’d think the east coast Yankee fans would have preferred the earlier start time.
If it’s one thing baseball fucks up royally, it’s postseason start time. How can you build a fan base among the youth when the most important games often have 8:00 or 8:30 start times in the east, so school kids can’t see the ends of games? Ditto first shift workers. At least football has the sense to start the Super Bowl before 6 pm, knowing that it’s a work night.
Football has the SuperBowl on a Sunday. They aren’t starting Monday Night Football or Thursday Night Football at 6pm. It’s 8:30pm, IIRC.
When you have games on weekdays it’s harder to schedule it early because people have to leave work to get to the games and it doesn’t really look good on TV when the stadium is half full when the national anthem is being sung (there were a lot of comments last night about “where are all the Yankee fans” when it turned out they were standing in line for tickets outside the stadium or something - at least that is what some people were showing on Twitter).
Anyways, a quick and cheap way to get ESPN for a month or two is Sling TV. $20 a month and you’ll get ESPN and ESPN2 (and a few other cable channels) and streams on Roku, Amazon FireTV, and AppleTV.
Lets go Cubbies! I am excited. I love post season baseball!
I’m bummed that i can’t watch tonight’s game.
I’m on campus until 8.00 p.m. Pacific time, and my work computer does not allow me to change the DNS settings, so i can’t make use of my Unlocker subscription to bypass MLB’s restrictions.
For that matter, i’m not sure i could use it anyway from inside the university’s network.
Utterly insane in Chicago today. Blackhawks raise the Stanley Cup banner while the Cubs take on the Pirates away in Pittsburgh. The red line train, which runs by Wrigley, was so packed I had to wait for a train I could squeeze on to, so many people going up to Wrigleyville tonight just to watch an away game at the Wrigley sports bars.