As a Cubs blogger, I think I'm going to have to get down on my knees and thank the good Lord that Sammy Sosa has joined us in the social media world. We've seen his Pinterest page and his Twitter account. He also has a Facebook page littered with the same awesome yellow-sweatered photos as his Pinterest (which @harrypav pointed out were directly pinned from his Flickr account). Sammy knows social media, apparently.
Today, Sammy tweeted out a "special video," claiming he had been promising it. I didn't see the promise, but I may have missed it in between all of the "Sammy Sosa. Yes, I’m the real Sammy Sosa, and this is my Pinterest" declarations.
Sammy has been setting the bar quite high in the Sammy Sosa being Sammy Sosa contest lately, but this video does not miss in its effort to remind us all that Sammy Sosa once hit a shit-ton of homeruns and millions of people fucking LOVED him. It isn't the best produced video ever, but it is definitely the Sammy Sosa-est. Here are some of the highlights:
- 0:00 – Eight seconds of the WGN multi-color bars and off-the-air, high pitched tone.
- 0:08 – A silent black screen for another ten seconds. Seriously. At first I thought it was a tribute to Hawk Harrelson, but then Sammy's big face comes on screen and we're off.
- 0:18 – No introduction. It's just Sammy swinging and hitting homeruns. I assume he's hitting homeruns because the name of the video is "Sammy Sosa Homerun Highlights," but we really only get to see the swing in most cases. Usually not even the hop. In the background, you get a catchy drum beat that might be something from the Dominican? I don't know. But through the first 30 seconds of the video, the only audio is of Sammy's bat crack, a brief crowd reaction, and the drum beat in the background.
- 0:29 – Henry Rodriguez sighting! Remember when fans used to throw O Henry bars on the field (and when they didn't have a candy bar, they threw garbage)? That was stupid.
- 0:31 – Chip Caray's voice reminds us that Chip Caray was once a thing. I'm really trying to like you, Sammy, but you keep making it difficult.
- 0:34 – Alex Gonzalez sighting! He looks like a guy who's going to fuck up a perfectly fieldable ball in a few months.
- 0:38 – Ryan Dempster sighting! He's in a Marlins uniform and he's giving up a homerun.
- 0:54 – We get the first extended shot of a homerun where Sammy hits the pink house across Waveland that doesn't exist anymore and I get the first real idea that these homeruns are all happening in 1998 because I vividly remember seeing that one.
- 1:02 – Chip yells, "Swung on and belted! he's got 20 this month!" so we're definitely in 1998. We're also getting a few more shots of fans holding up pro-Sammy signs interspersed in the montage now.
- 1:13 – We get the first dose of Steve Stone coupled with Chip's second "Swung on and belted!" of the video after Sammy's first career grandslam.
- 1:26 – Chip announces that Sammy has 50 and I went back to count the homeruns, and it was the 50th homerun of the video, so we are definitely going chronologically in 1998.
- 1:48 – We get the Spanish announcers yelling about #59 and shot of them in the press box.
- 1:52 – Lance Johnson sighting! God, do the Cubs suck at centerfielders.
- 1:54 – Sammy gets his 61st and we get shots of fans in the stands and on Waveland going apeshit. Chip's catch phrase also makes an appearance. I suggest you not make that a trigger to drink if you watch this video as part of a drinking game.
- 1:59 – Mark Grace sighting! Drink! (Not you, Mark.)
- 2:01 – The montage slows down to give us more detail on the last historic shots of 1998. More Chip screaming and more fans (home and away) going crazy in the stands.
- 2:16 – Jose Nieves is not impressed.
- 2:26 – We get the sound of him connecting with #66 three separate times and then Sammy blowing kisses to the fans.
- 2:32 – We get a shot of Sammy jumping up on the dugout after the Wildcard Tie-break game in his Wildcard shirt and allowing himself to get molested by the fans. One of them REALLY gets into rubbing Sammy's chest and embracing him. It's kind of disturbing. There is also audio of Sammy telling Chicago what an unbelievable year 1998 was and how much he loves Chicago.
- 2:46 – A still shot of the Chicago Tribune announcing Sammy hit 63 in his encore to 1998 (1999). I'm not sure if they want us to read the whole article or if they think it takes us a REALLY long time to read the headlines, but it stays on that static shot (with no audio) for 18 seconds.
- 3:04 – Fatboy Slim's "Funk Soul Brother" kicks in as the video alternates between a slow pan up Sammy's body starting from his shoes and shots of Cubs fans declaring their love for Sosa via sign and Dominican Republic flag-waving.
- 3:18 – More homeruns! The nice part is that "Funk Soul Brother" is now partially drowning out Chip.
- 3:54 – Greg Maddux sighting! He's on the Braves and he looks pissed he gave up a homerun.
- 4:03 – Grace sighting! Drink! This time with Mickey Morandini giving Sammy a hug.
- 4:16 – Grace sighting! Drink! He's giving Sammy another hug. I just hope Sammy takes his car keys.
- 4:32 – Sammy eats Slammin' Sammy's cereal.
- 4:53 – Bill Clinton loves Sammy!
- 5:05 – A little kid sprints towards Sammy while he's standing in the outfield, but we don't get to see what happened when he gets there.
- 5:30 – Jim Riggleman sighting! He must have thought Sammy was a Wrigleyville trixie because he slapped his ass.
- 5:40 – Pedro Astacio throws the hangingest curveball you've ever seen. I mean, there are pitchers mistakes all throughout the video, but watch how Astacio puts that one on a tee for Sammy.
- 6:30 – Glenallen Hill sighting! I don't have a joke about Glenallen Hill because I'm afraid he'd find me and kill me. It seems like he probably has the time to do that now.
- 6:54 – Sammy walks out to right field tipping his cap to the fans… fade to black. Then another few awkward silent seconds.
- 7:03 – Fin.
Comments
His tweet reads “I promised a special video. Here are Wrigley Field home run highlights!” but half of the homeruns take place elsewhere. Someone needs to be fired for this slipup
exhoosier10Quote Reply
I would have killed to have been part of the meeting wherein Sammy’s big comeback via social media was planned.
Julie DiCaroQuote Reply
Julie DiCaro wrote:
I was there. Here’s a transcript:
Sammy: I want to go on the Pinterest.
PR guy: That’s great Sammy, social media is a great tool to get you back in everyoe’s consciousness as one of the all-time greats. how about we do Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Pinterest? That should cover most of the bases.
Sammy: What’s a tweeter? I just like this thing where Sonia puts her recipes and stuff. I have all these pictures of me in a yellow sweater. Why not put them on the Pinterest?
PR Guy: Uhhh… Sure. I’ll set it up for you.
Sammy: Should I do some more pictures of me pointing?
PR Guy: I think we have enough for now.
Sammy: OK, buddy.
Aisle424Quote Reply
That’s a lot of highlights for an 8-minute video.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
(dying laughing) at the girl just behind the beer splash. “Are you fucking kidding me? ARE YOU…”
Aisle424Quote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
It’s Sammy Sosa. That’s how awesome he was.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Surprisingly easy to read those lips.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
I did initially, but then WaLi posted the criteria and that seems fine to me. I imagine it’s similar to other international competitions.
dmick89Quote Reply
(dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
AM i crazy or does sosa not look comically big? Maybe he didnt take roids. He is 100% a hall of famer to bubbs
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
bubblesdachimp wrote:
He totally took steroids and he should be in the Hall of Fame, in my opinion.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
I mean he said he took Flinstone vitamins…
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
new aside
http://obstructedview.net/aside/some-minor-mlb-rule-changes-for-next-year.html
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ bubblesdachimp:
From what I remember, Sosa’s case is relatively borderline. Though if we’re throwing subjective values into the equation and don’t feel like grandstanding, 1998 would push him over the top in my opinion. Overall though from what I remember McGwire has a much better case.
BerseliusQuote Reply
IIRC, WGN used the clip of the radio call on that play pretty liberally for a while, with Pat Hughes shouting “he hit the house!” Good times. I think the series with Milwaukee where he passed 61 was one of the more entertaining weekends of baseball I can remember.
uncle daveQuote Reply
uncle dave wrote:
That was such a great weekend. That series was unbelievable, plus it was Germanfest weekend in Lincoln Square. If that weekend happened to me again now, it would probably kill me.
Aisle424Quote Reply
Other than Derek Jeter, Sosa was probably the most popular/marketable player in baseball from 1998-2002
BerseliusQuote Reply
I can’t tell if that’s the worst or best video I’ve ever seen. Regardless it’s epic.
RodrigoQuote Reply
@424
(dying laughing)
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SVBQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
mcgwire is way more qualified to get into the hall, imo. but if dawson gets in for 1987, then sosa sure as shit should get in for 1998.
also, i stand by the fact that if a player has some insane feat (i.e. taking part in a home run race watched by approximately 150% of america and hitting 243 bombs over a 4 year period) then that player belongs in the hall no matter what the rest of their career looked like. maybe not with their own plaque but a plaque commemorating the race itself. or something. all this HOF talk over the last few days has gotten me thinking about what a cool fucking place a baseball history museum could be and how boring the HOF probably is. just like eddie gaedel belongs somewhere in the HOF. not with his own plaque but because the story of how bill veeck used him in a game is (to me) a really cool part of baseball history.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
(dying laughing) I’m pretty sure I went to grade school with the chubby Latino guy behind the girl.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
I feel like the “Fame” part of the HOF definitely applies. McGwire and Sosa were a huge part of the sport’s resurgence.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
There’s actually two parts to the Hall of Fame. One part is the museum part with the game-used items with stories from all the various parts of baseball history. Then there’s the part with all the plaques. I spent about an hour with the plaques and the rest of the day in the museum (and I could have spent another day easily).
Aisle424Quote Reply
Great stuff. I started becoming a Cubs fan at the tail end of Sosa’s run, so he helped me learn about exciting baseball, dumbass fans, opportunistic sportswriters, and turncoat ownership all at the same time.
In the continuing saga of my televised relationship to shitty baseball: Today we extracted from Mediacom a retention-offer reduced rate on the internet service and dumped the cable down to basic, which will give us a few games on WGN and save a small boatload of money. This will make me listen to Pat Hughes more, which will make me a better person. I may still investigate the password switcheroo, or similar subterfuge. Thanks for all the helpful suggestions!
UrkQuote Reply
You spent six times as much time with the plaques as I did.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
What, you don’t like Enya?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Finally watched the video. The message seems to be: “Sammy hit home runs every two seconds. Sammy hit more than 60 home runs three years in a row. Suck on that.”
It’s funny, because when I think of Sosa, I don’t think of 1998 (I wasn’t watching baseball much in the 90s), I think of his awesome feat of hitting more than 60 home runs three years in row — because no one else has done anything like that. But seeing this video make the case for it in such a ham-fisted way kind of backfires. It portrays Sosa as one-dimensional, focuses only on the known prime steroid years in baseball, and implies that’s the sum of his accomplishments.
Sammy needs to make a video with fielding, baserunning, talking to rookies, hitting singles and doubles, doing drills in ST, and showing some of the other years he played, otherwise he kind of shoots himself in the foot here with this homerun machine vibe.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Except for the steroids, the corked bats (do you really believe that was the only time he used one) and Sosa walking out on his teammates on the final day of the ’04 season and then lying about it until confronted with security video, he was a prertty good guy.
MNjoeQuote Reply
Regarding the Rizzo Citizenship for WBC, there is a clause that states:
And for Italy, it appears it is very easy to become a citizen as long as your paternal side was an Italian citizen:
And I think it can go back even farther than paternal great grandfather. So it seems it may be a little easier for Rizzo to claim ability to play for Italy than the WBC rules dictate due to Italy’s citizenship laws.
WaLiQuote Reply
@ MNjoe:
Sosa might be a piece of shit, but I can’t blame him for leaving work early on his last day.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Lest I be accused of being a WBC fanboy/apologist, I’d just like to say that I acknowledge the following:
–The rosters are wacky, with Americans playing for Italy and Canadians playing for Israel, etc.
–There are tons of A ball players playing against major leaguers
–They aren’t real teams – only put together a month before the tournament. The rosters may be completely different in the qualifiers and the tournament itself
–We already have the ultimate baseball competition in the MLB regular season and postseason
–Club/franchise competition over decades is much more satisfying than national teams competition over a few weeks
–Split loyalties abound club/country, dual citizens, etc.
–Lots of the best players don’t participate
–It’s jammed into spring training, guys aren’t ready, guys might hold back
–Any team can beat any other team in a single game — tournament play is not suited to baseball, long seasons are the way to go
Despite all that (or in some cases because of it), I still think it’s good.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
Yeah i think it’s fun. Some competition is better than Spring Training imo
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
The official story always seemed spotty…it sounded like he asked for permission, sorta received it (or not), left anyway, and then got thrown under the bus.
I also don’t give a shit that he left early so I never really bothered to recall all the sordid details of LeaveWorkEarlyGate.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
Like 99% of the people who bitch about him leaving work early never left their own jobs early.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
huh, no shit. i’ve never picked up on that when looking at pics or reading about the HOF. that sounds very worthwhile.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
re: WBC
i doubt anyone will agree with this but i think that you should play for the country that signs your paycheck.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
I’d do it today if I didn’t think it would get me fired.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
I thought it was great, but MB is right that it really isn’t near anything. If you happen to visit Albany to have some steamed hams, you can make a day trip.
A group of us fit it in when we took a baseball trip hitting a bunch of baseball stadiums over the course of 10 days. We stopped on our way from Pittsburgh to New York and spent the day. I’ve wanted to go back, but it would really have to almost be a separate trip and I haven’t found the time. I do think every baseball fan should go at least once.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
What about players who play for the Blue Jays? Do they play for the Canadian team?
EdwinQuote Reply
Rice CubeQuote Reply
One thing to point out is that Cooperstown does have Ommegang Brewery, which I didn’t know about when I was there.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Easily my favorite US brewery. I think I was around 12 when I went to Cooperstown so I didn’t know about the place either (dying laughing)
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
Seriously though, I don’t think a WBC works with that plan. The whole point of a tournament like the WBC is to encourage national pride and a competitive baseball tournament. If players are forced to play for the league in which they’re employed instead of their home country, it destroys any sense of national pride, and since MLB has the most talent, the tournament wouldn’t be competitive.
The only other alternative would be to set up pro leagues in every country and only let American born players into the American league, but then MLB wouldn’t have the best talent in the world, and the reason MLB is so great is that it does showcase the best players in the world on a daily basis.
So either you allow players to pick and choose which pro league they would like to play in, and still let them play for their national team, or you don’t have a WBC. I don’t see any other way to do it.
EdwinQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
(dying laughing) yeah but the point is that Sosa was already basically fired and wasn’t coming back.
The other thing that gets me about the whole “walked out on his team” meme is that his team clearly no longer wanted him around anyway. They didn’t have each others’ backs at that point, so loyalty was moot. Plus it was a less meaningful game than a Cactus league tie.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Aisle424:
I’ve gone to the Negro League Museum and the Bob Feller Museum. I might go to the HOF when they get their heads out if their asses, which is to say I won’t.
I think they should eliminate the HOF. Just leave the museum.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
I don’t understand why Sosa leaving a season end game in which he didn’t play anyways is such a big deal, but Kerry Wood and Ryne Sandberg quit on the team in the middle of the season, and fans have no problem with that.
Sosa should have retired from baseball for that game, and then come out of retirement the next day.
EdwinQuote Reply
@ Edwin:
It’s a big deal because they make it a big deal.
#narrative
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Yep, giving a shit about Sosa leaving early is pathetic.
dmick89Quote Reply
If regular people were held to the same standards as ball players the unemployment rate would be 100%.
I think an awful lot of baseball fans should be held to that standard and I eagerly await all their complaints about being unemployed because they didn’t do anything that everyone doesn’t do.
dmick89Quote Reply
It would be pure comedy watching these people get treated like shit for doing stuff everyone does.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
I think you’ve just described retail.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/is-boras-right-that-payrolls-are-lagging-behind-revenue/
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
New amateur bonus spending rules are going to have an impact too. Dropped $26 million in 2012. First round alone fell $15M.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Though I guess to be fair, 2011 was a pretty stacked draft class.
GBTSQuote Reply
Edwin wrote:
Zambrano tried that. Didn’t work.
Aisle424Quote Reply
dmick89 wrote:
don’t do what Donnie Don’t does.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
Does anybody get DirecTV’s Extra Innings? I’m thinking about getting it but was curious about the Saturday and Sunday blackout restrictions. According to DTV, it states that any game shown between 3 hours before or after the FOX game, then that game will be blacked out. Also, any game that shows after 5:00 ET on Sunday, will be blacked out. Can anyone verify that? So basically if the Cubs play on Saturday between 1:10 and 7:05 ET, they’ll be blacked out? What kind of bullshit is this?
MuckerQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Usually the games are scheduled around the national TV games. Typically there is only one game on Sunday nights, carried by ESPN, though sometimes the Rangers or another outdoor hot weather team will conflict. Saturday afternoons are not quite as clean, there will often be three or four games, only one of which is carried by Fox, but then a glut of games later which are fair game.
GWQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Standard MLB bullshit.
They could show you those games but then Fox wouldn’t pay them as many shit tons of bucks.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Wow….I’m really starting to wonder about the validity of these Sammy Sosa accounts…..His Twitter account threw up a press release link on Facebook for a new needle-free injection company that he’s purchased….That and the homerun vid just sort of helps people to jump to (probably correct) conclusions. Seems that if these are really him, he needs new PR folk.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=575994135747277
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
GW, I live in Maryland so the FOX games they show are usually on midday. The Cubs play all their home games on Saturday during the day so basically all Cubs home games will be blacked out to me? I never get the Cubs on FOX out here so unless they play away, I probably won’t get to see any home games on Saturday? But if they play at 7:20 CT(8:20 ET), then I should be good?
MuckerQuote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
Yikes. Apparently sharps containers hadn’t made their way to the DR yet?
GWQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Right, the Cubs do seem to be blacked out more often on Saturday afternoons based on their scheduling. But the majority of Saturday games elsewhere are in the evenings, and the vast majority of Sunday games are in the afternoon.
GWQuote Reply
@ GW:
Ok, thanks for clearing that up GW.
MuckerQuote Reply
Sammy Sosa wrote:
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ GW:
Guess not, but that’s probably the argument he should have used in Congress. “No, really…You see what happened was, I was carrying medical waste, and someone there must have been juicing…one thing led to another…”
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
@ GW:
Aren’t the Saturday games on earlier in the day to get around the blackout rules? Like 12 instead of 1?
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
I like how Sammy rocks the memes.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
I withdraw my uncertainly. This clears it up perfectly. If it’s on the internet, it has to be true. (dying laughing)
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
I think games at 11 are still blacked out, but I could be wrong.
GWQuote Reply
GW wrote:
/only contribution to this thread
MishQuote Reply
According to DirecTV, if a FOX game airs at 1:10 ET, then all games before 4:10 ET are blacked out.
MuckerQuote Reply
from wikipedia. then there’s this:
so it might not be as bad this year
GWQuote Reply
http://espn.go.com/mlb/schedule?date=20130713
I picked a random saturday.
The rest of the game times are after 7 or TBD. My understanding based on past years is that for this particular Saturday, FOX would pick up the O’s game in Maryland, Reds-Braves and Chisox-Phils would be blacked out, and everything else would be fair game. For most of the country, Yanks-Twins would be picked up and the rest of the games would be OK.
GWQuote Reply
@ GW:
Hmm they wern’t on MLB At-Bat or whatever the internet thing is called. Not sure if Extra Innings is different. Although didn’t Fox change their scheduling a bit around this past year?
WaLiQuote Reply
I’ll still probably get it because of all the other teams I can watch but I just wanted to be able to catch most Cubs games. Does anybody know what broadcast they use? Is it the home teams?
MuckerQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
They moved the game times back to 4pm ET to get a taste of the better ratings that come later in the day, which had the side benefit of making scheduling a lot easier for a lot of teams (mostly the Cubs). You either had to play at noon or at night before.
BerseliusQuote Reply
MB is probably more up on this than I am, I think he gets EI every year.
GWQuote Reply
GW wrote:
That sucks. They have a cream for that though.
GBTSQuote Reply
Rafael Soriano —> Nats
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
Nats —-> Good
GBTSQuote Reply
GW wrote:
If you have cable and it comes with WGN and ESPN (and live out of market), you get about 145 or so Cubs games per year that are televised. Basically, you get about as many games on television that someone who lives in Chicago gets through CSN, WGN, ESPN and whatever that other local channel is called that I can never think of.
I’ve never bothered counting before, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are 150 games televised each year. I don’t really know. The number of times I’m actually blacked out is so small that I barely care about MLB’s blackout restrictions. If I was a Royals fan I might give a shit, but I’m not so I don’t care what MLB does as far as blackouts.
dmick89Quote Reply
Today’s OV Search Term of the Day: greg maddux sex addict
Aisle424Quote Reply
It’s kind of funny how eager the Yankees are to receive draft pick compensation for departing free agents.
The Yankees.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
Good point. The Cubs were on several Saturdays last year at noon.
If someone is asking whether they should get EI, I’d say go for it if you live out of market. If you live the market, then you probably don’t need it unless you just want to be able to watch as many teams as possible, which is a lot of fun. I enjoy being able to turn it to the Dodgers when they’re in LA and listen to Scully. It’s also awesome late in the season.
I like EI, but last year was the first year I didn’t automatically renew and I won’t this year either. I ended up getting it after the first week of the season when the free preview ended. I might do that again this year, but I might not even get it. It has nothing to do with what I think of EI though.
dmick89Quote Reply
What broadcast are the games? The Cubs? I don’t really want to listen to the other teams announcers.
MuckerQuote Reply
One more question………Extra Innings or MLB.tv?
MuckerQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
I think with some cable companies you get a choice of the broadcast. Others you may not. You’d have to look into it. Personally, I enjoy the other team’s broadcast. That’s in part because I wasn’t a fan of Brenly, but mostly because it gives you an entirely different perspective. The Cubs announcers are trying to sell the Cubs. That can be fun in a pennant race and they do know more about the team, but they also ignore a lot of things other teams are all too happy to point out.
dmick89Quote Reply
I thought for sure these would get old by now, but nope, still (dying laughing)
http://profootballmock.com/nfl-qbs-on-facebook-divisional-roundup/
EDIT: Sorry if someone posted this elsewhere. I haven’t read every word lately.
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
I prefer Extra Innings, but I’m sure there are some who prefer MLB.TV. Here’s the question: do you want to stream the games on your computer, laptop, iPad or whatever device it is that you have? Or do you want to watch it on your television? If you’re on the go a lot, MLB.TV is probably the way to go.
It’s worth pointing out that devices like the XBox and PS3 have apps for MLB.TV. So do Samsung TVs and I’m sure other TVs. You’re still streaming the content though.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
Add LG TV’s to that list as well. Also Roku and probably Apple TV.
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
I’d prefer not to stream. I’d prefer Extra Innings. I’m big on picture quality.
I guess it depends on who the opposing team is. If it’s the white sox you can forget it.
MuckerQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
It may be that my internet connection isn’t up to snuff, but I would take EI every time. Even the years when I don’t subscribe, I look forward to the free preview that they do for opening week, it’s great.
GWQuote Reply
@ GW:
It’s not your internet. It’s MLB.TV. I’ve had buffering issues before with nothing else connecting to wifi and then tested the download speed and it’s 35 Mbps. Last time I had MLB.TV all they had was 720p. Is that still the case?
dmick89Quote Reply
This was interesting:
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/15/excerpts-from-terry-franconas-upcoming-book-paint-an-unflattering-portrait-of-the-sox-owners/
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I don’t know much about Willie McCovey, but does anyone know why he only had less than 1200 plate appearances total after his 4th season in the league? He wasn’t called up until late July in this first year (1959), but what about the other 3 years in which he had 307, 374 and 262 plate appearances? It was performance related. He had a 188 OPS+ his rookie season and followed that up with 128, 125 and 154. Was he injured frequently early in his career or something?
dmick89Quote Reply
OMG Lance Armstrong took performance enhancing drugs. OMG OMG OMG OMG Let’s talk about this on the news all day and night and for the next week, please.
Jesus fuck, the media in this country is a fucking joke. The people who demand this kind of shit from athletes should be embarrassed that they’ve created shit like this.
Lance Armstrong took PEDs to win. Duh. He’s an athlete. Big fucking deal.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
I’m guessing it had something to do with how good the other guys were:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1962.shtml
That’s not a knock on McCovey, but rather a testament to how great that team was. It sucks that they only won one World Series (pre-McCovey).
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
He might have been blocked by Orlando Cepada in those years. I’d imagine that both of those guys would be pretty awful defensively anywhere but 1B. Or he may have been injured, as you say.
Also, I agree 100% re: the whole Armstrong thing.
EDIT : Or what RC said about McCovey
cwolfQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
At least it’s vaguely a story here, since Livestrong is based in Austin and it will probably affect them. Still, I could give a shit about it.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Aisle424Quote Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zce-QT7MGSE
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It’s a good thing the Cubs have had such shrewd front office types. Because of the new contract SIX more players squeezed into arbitration this year, including ex Cubs Colvin and Fuld. We can use that money to waste on Micheal Bourn.
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Trestman —- > Bears
Taub —- > Chiefs
MylesQuote Reply
@ Myles:
Jimmy Johnson was right!
WaLiQuote Reply
can someone tell me what the tan-highlighted numbers are on bbref? for example the BA for willie mays in 1954.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
@ EnricoPallazzo:
If you point at the heading (in this case BA), it looks like Gold means he was awarded title at the end of the year.
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
@ mikeakaleroy:
oh thanks. i was confused because they do the same shading for all-time career leader.
EnricoPallazzoQuote Reply
That tan background must be new or I never noticed it.
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