MLB Network
by 4 Corners Fan on Jan 1, 2009 7:18 PM EST
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What do you think of the MLB Network so far? It's been on for over an hour now, so you should have some opinion of it.
I like it. Turned it on about 10 minutes before the hour, and listened to the inspirational music and quick shots of various players and plays. They were inspirational of course, and I was ready for the show to begin.
I'm impressed with the commentators and with the format of the show so far. The commentators are not all out to out-yell or make fun of each other (Fox NFL pregame, I'm looking at you). They are intelligent, thoughtful, and know their stuff. The main 4 guys are easy to watch; and the 2 women are knowledgeable, not just attractive additions.
Now I'm watching the perfect game with Don Larson, complete with ads. Very fun.
This is going to be one of my most-watched channels if it maintains the quality shown so far.
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Just turned it on
To watch some of the perfect game. The most amazing thing for me, is that Vin Scully is doing commentary! :-) I look forward to seeing the Hot Stove Report later [we missed the first time it was on]. So far, so good: I like Bob Costas, and hope they use him a lot.
by Jim McLennan on Jan 1, 2009 7:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
My, weren't things *primitive*
That’s the main factor I’ve noticed, watching this game from fifty-odd years ago. They seem to have about two cameras, with the main one behind the plate. No instant replay. No box-score on the screen. The commentators seem to think they’re doing radio, to some extent, as they are much more descriptive than their modern-day counterparts.
And not one demand for more signs at the ballpark. That’s just wrong… :-)
by Jim McLennan on Jan 1, 2009 8:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Mr. 4 Corners Fan
noticed that the commentators didn’t talk all the time, which was nice.
It's like living with a six-year old.
by 4 Corners Fan on Jan 1, 2009 11:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
De-lurking in the offseason for a sec
That I’m loving the MLB Network so far. The way they have the ability to breakdown and recreate plays in studio (like Jackie Robinson stealing home) is the kind of thing that will keep me watching. Fascinating.
I want to be in Haren's harem.
by luckycc on Jan 1, 2009 10:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
It's great
I don’t have any complaints. I especially loved them breaking down the mechanics of stealing home.
You keep on rowin', and I'll keep on smilin'.
by soco on Jan 2, 2009 12:11 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yinz
actually got MLB Network today? We’re in Gilbert with a Cox digital box and channel 175 doesn’t even show up in the program guide. I tried to enter it in manually and it defaulted to the next available channel, 180.
Had I not been in a hurry I would have called to complain, but maybe I’ll do that tomorrow.
by dahlian on Jan 2, 2009 1:08 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Same thing here
Gilbert? Check
Digital box? Check
Channel 175? Nope
I’ll be calling to complain tonight after work. Probably won’t do any good, but we’ll see. In the past we’ve had luck with minor (to Cox, not to us) problems, when we repeatedly scheduled the same service call until it was fixed (sometimes five minutes after the repair guy told us it couldn’t be fixed and left). I’m not sure how to apply the same principles to this situation, but we’re gonna keep poking Cox until we actually get the MLB Network.
"We...probed them all the way through. They're completely meat." — Terry Bisson
by Scrbl on Jan 2, 2009 9:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Argh....
Now I’m pissed. I totally missed this. Stupid college bowl games…..
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by DbacksSkins on Jan 2, 2009 4:13 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Looks like they'll be doing some re-runs
so you should be able to catch most of the “Opening Day” stuff.
The Mariner Housewife in Portland has Comcast, which shows it to be available, but she’s getting nothing. She is not a happy girl. I’m walking a fine line between being enthusiastic about it and sounding like neener, neener, we’ve got it and you don’t.
Also, did you catch in the interview with Don Larson that he’d never actually seen the film of his perfect game? He had such a great big smile on his face after it was over.
It's like living with a six-year old.
by 4 Corners Fan on Jan 2, 2009 8:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
MLB network
Love it.
From November 1 each year I start to miss the great game.
Now I can get my regular fix!
Be interesting to see their take on deals, rosters and the draft.
I’m on Cox – no prob.
by Slugger11 on Jan 2, 2009 6:30 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Be interesting to see their take on deals, rosters and the draft.
They’re great! All great! Nobody makes a bad move, ever!
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by DbacksSkins on Jan 6, 2009 3:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The commercials
I actually enjoyed the fact that they showed a lot of the on-screen commercials during the break – gave it a real sense of history. Though as with the presentation, they seemed astonishingly primitive, as if Mark Grace was drawing them on the screen with the telestrator. I also liked how Costas, Larsen and Berra would point out things between innings, such as how the ball Mantle ran down in left-center would, in all probability, have been a home-run anywhere else. Was that a 457 ft sign on the wall behind him? 8-O
by Jim McLennan on Jan 2, 2009 10:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
cox cable
i live in surprise and i don’t get the channel at all it just takes to me to 180 as well, when i called cox yesterday they told me that MLB network was only available in scottsdale
by dbacks4life on Jan 2, 2009 3:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I guess
Being part of the “wine and cheese set” has its advantages. :-)
by Jim McLennan on Jan 2, 2009 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Woooooooooo
You keep on rowin', and I'll keep on smilin'.
by soco on Jan 3, 2009 1:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I wonder
what ’hacks thinks of this blatant, cynical commercialism.
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by DbacksSkins on Jan 6, 2009 2:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Justin Upton’s on Host Stove right now and not only does he look much older with facial hair, he looks huge. It seems like he’s beefed up. His head is….very large.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.
by luckycc on Jan 7, 2009 7:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Hot Stove. God. I can’t type.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.
by luckycc on Jan 7, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And I have to say
I love “Hot Stove” so much. Miles away better than “Baseball Tonight.”
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by soco on Jan 7, 2009 7:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He's on steroids!
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by soco on Jan 7, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We can
only hope.
Errr…. did I say that out loud? I meant “hope not”….
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by DbacksSkins on Jan 7, 2009 8:25 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Also
Poor guy can’t get a break. He goes on the show and all they want to talk to him about is B.J. He’ll probably get a very sympathetic phone call from Stephen Drew later.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.
by luckycc on Jan 7, 2009 8:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yessssssss
the show Prime 9 has the announcer from VH1’s “I Love the 80’s.”
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by soco on Jan 7, 2009 7:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I cant find it on cox!!
What is the channel supposed to be? I had heard 175, but it’s not there!
Yes, I'm a Diamondback and Suns fan. So you may be wondering, "Why does this fool like the Broncos so much?"
A: The Cardinals are too hard of a pill to swallow. Oh yeah and that Elway dude....
by Elway4Prez on Jan 16, 2009 6:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I've heard
parts of Phoenix have had problems getting the channel in right away; I’m Scottsdale and had no problem, but you might want to give Cox a ring about it.
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by soco on Jan 17, 2009 1:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah i'm in Glendale and none of my friends get it either. God damn I was looking foward to it too..
But thanks and I’ll give them a ring
Yes, I'm a Diamondback and Suns fan. So you may be wondering, "Why does this fool like the Broncos so much?"
A: The Cardinals are too hard of a pill to swallow. Oh yeah and that Elway dude....
by Elway4Prez on Jan 17, 2009 2:06 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmm....
nice to know that the MLB Network didn’t accidentally get rerouted to the wine and cheese shop or something like that.
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 17, 2009 2:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That's
why we got it first. At this rate places like Yuma and Tucson should get it in oh….about thirty years.
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by soco on Jan 17, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
How DARE you
link Tucson to that backwards Mojave prison town.
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 17, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh I forgot
Tucson is essentially Big Yuma.
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by soco on Jan 17, 2009 6:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
AARKLSDAHOGIHELGDLKSGHK!!!!
Say it again, and I shall insult you a second time!
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 17, 2009 8:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ah bloo bloo
Once, I ate at Egee’s, and everyone’s all “this place is awesome” and I’m all, “yeah, it was when I had it in Yuma as Tooies.”
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by soco on Jan 17, 2009 9:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Eegee's is tasty,
but I prefer Baggin’s.
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 17, 2009 9:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Baggin's is okay,
But I’m a Grayhame’s sort of guy.
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by kishi on Jan 18, 2009 12:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Not that my opinion matters...
but Baggins<Eegee’s.
Wait, what? did I just agree with ’skins?
Uhoh.
It would be poetic if it didn't suck so much (RIP Pushing Daisies...)
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jan 23, 2009 12:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No.
What I said was that I prefer Baggins to Eegee’s. Ergo, Baggins>Eegee’s.
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 23, 2009 5:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I can't type.
That’s what I meant.
oy. It’s been a looooonnng 2 weeks.
It would be poetic if it didn't suck so much (RIP Pushing Daisies...)
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jan 23, 2009 9:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What
do music major not learn math anymore?
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by soco on Jan 25, 2009 12:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No, we do.
But it’s at 8:00 in the freakin morning.
I don’t absorb much that early.
It would be poetic if it didn't suck so much (RIP Pushing Daisies...)
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jan 26, 2009 3:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
For me
Baggin’s doesn’t hold a candle to Beyond Bread.
If complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.
by luckycc on Jan 23, 2009 4:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah,
but Beyond Bread is a different type of sandwich shop — it’s more upscale, I think.
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 23, 2009 5:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
2007 World Series
is being played this weekend, and I’m lovin’ it.
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by soco on Jan 17, 2009 8:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I was just watching that.
Too much Manny Ramirez for my tastes, though.
On another note, every commercial break seems to contain shots of Harold Reynolds groping a baseball.
"Of course, it’s downright frightening to imagine how two Adam Dunns would turn the double play." - Joe Posnanski
by DbacksSkins on Jan 17, 2009 8:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
…….damn GCI (the main cable provider in alaska) doesn’t carry it. bastards
by sergey606 on Jan 21, 2009 9:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
No MLB Network
in Flagstaff. At least, not for me. (Granted, I have no cable box. FREE CABLE WOO)
It would be poetic if it didn't suck so much (RIP Pushing Daisies...)
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jan 23, 2009 12:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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