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#1 ·
Knock yourselves out... discuss!
 
#79 ·
WTF I had the spanish ultra max and I was not getting this channel I had to change to an english package to get it, now DTV if just getting 72.99 ++ from me instead of $104.99 ++... Unreal... now if I want the spanish programming again it will be $19.99 more, jeezzzz...
 
#80 ·
1. Love the commercials - My dad never had a birthday when he didn't get one of those $1 razors, and my brother and I got the Gillette Baseball Encyclopedia.
2. Imagine one announcer at a time that actually believed that we understood the game, and didn't need every little thing explained and expanded on endlessly.
3. Ball was used until scuffed or hit into the stands.
4. Love MLB Network and can't wait for the 7th game of the Pirate-Yankee 1960 world series !
 
#83 ·
Galley said:
The sets certainly are colorful!

Interesting tidbit: Don Larsen didn't realize at the time, the definition of a "perfect game". He thought he had pitched a very good no hitter.
It wasn't clear to me whether he did not know that he had actually pitched a "perfect" no-hitter, or just had never heard of that terminology.
 
#84 ·
raoul5788 said:
Really? What are your qualifications? ;)
31-year veteran umpire, having worked since the early 1990s at the NCAA level. Award-winning graduate of a professional baseball umpire school. Work independent professional baseball as well. Considered a rules guru by those who know me (I run a "You Make the Call" mass Email that goes to a couple hundred people nationwide from March to October each year). Granted, this doesn't make me perfect, but my reputation speaks for itself to those who know me. ;)
 
#85 ·
mystic7 said:
A batter hits a line drive that strikes the pitching rubber on the fly and lands in foul territory. What's your call?
raoul5788 said:
Foul ball, ASSuming the ball doesn't pass first or third. Easy call.
Indeed. That one was easy, and actually in the book in black and white, unlike many of the actual correct rulings.
 
#86 ·
Lord Vader said:
31-year veteran umpire, having worked since the early 1990s at the NCAA level. Award-winning graduate of a professional baseball umpire school. Work independent professional baseball as well. Considered a rules guru by those who know me (I run a "You Make the Call" mass Email that goes to a couple hundred people nationwide from March to October each year). Granted, this doesn't make me perfect, but my reputation speaks for itself to those who know me. ;)
Holy crap! I feel like a rookie!;) I've worked some D3 college and semi-pro games. The Raybestos Brakette games were a blast to work.
 
#97 ·
DodgerKing said:
Nice to see they are not using stretch-o-vision like they did in some parts of the replay clips. The brick laden pillar bars are the most creative and best ones I have seen yet. The PQ is excellent. This is one of the best HD channels I have seen so far. Hopefully they keep it up.
While it is creative, I don't care for the brick pillar bars. There are several problems.

One problem is that the side bars each have the station logo so there are three (yes three) logos on the screen. One is bad enough, three is ridiculous.

A second problem is that not having solid black or grey bars makes image retention more likely. While it would be great if there were only true 16x9 content for all broadcasts, the nature of the archival footage means there will be lots more of 4x3 content. I'm excited about the content, just not image retention from watching too much MLB Network programming.

My plasma has the ability to detect sidebands and automatically stretch content to remove the sidebars. But this mode does not work with the MLB Network sidebands because they aren't a solid black or grey color.

Please don't stretch content for broadcast but please do use standard sidebars since there is technology available to deal with that automatically.

While the brick sidebars seem like a creative idea, the turn out to have many downsides. I hope this gets changed to standard sidebars.
 
#98 ·
DodgerKing said:
Only one complaint thus far. Replace Costas with someone else. I do not really like him too much... :p
I think his biggest problem is overexposure.

For pure baseball knowledge without the hysterics (e.g. Chris Berman), I can't think of anyone better. Who do you think would be a better choice for his role?
 
#99 ·
Wow!! It was neat this morning seeing the Brooklyn Dodgers/NY Yankee game from 1955. It brought back a lot of memories, Billy Martin at bat.

They sure have come a long way improving the broadcasting techniques since then. Found it hard to watch a game without the score, balls, strikes etc, displayed on the screen.

Hope they do a few old Red Sox games with Curt Gowdy. That would really bring back memories.
 
#100 ·
gocardinals said:
Bob Costas is one of the best baseball announcers ever. Never considered him coming across as a know-it-all or arrogant. Just my opinion.
I agree completely. I've always thought he was a great guy talking about sports, especially baseball.

I got even more impressed with him when he had his interview program "Later". He was probably the most well prepared interviewer I'd ever seen and he actually let his guest answer the questions. He had a wide range of guests, not just sports figures, including Paul McCartney for 3 consecutive nights. He was so good that my wife would watch him interview everyone, including sports figures, and she couldn't care less about sports.

I'm not trying to convince anyone that they should like him if they don't. I just want others to know that there are many people who think he's terrific.
 
#101 ·
I watched the Hot Stove show and Don Larsen game on MLB last night. At about 5:58pm, the signal was terrible looking (lots of pixelation) and I said "here we go again", but by 6pm, it cleared up and looked great. I thought it was going to be 1080i, but my HR20 showed 720p.

I found it amazing that some guy kinetiscoped the game from his TV. Pretty good job considering it was 1956.

I still never saw an answer about whether MLB will be doing their own live games (once the season starts) or simply taking an RSN feed (like NHL Network does). I haven't heard any mention of game commentators for MLB Network, so maybe I have my answer.

Hopefully D* will have a logo for MLB network soon (upper left corner of INFO screen).. right now, it just says something like "MLBH..".
 
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