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Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Posted
12:55 PM
by Sean
According to this post on the Angels message boards, a season-long retrospective is coming out on DVD in two weeks. This is the only mention I've seen of such a thing, but it's cool if it's true. I'm still making my CD, though.
According to this post on the Angels message boards, a season-long retrospective is coming out on DVD in two weeks. This is the only mention I've seen of such a thing, but it's cool if it's true. I'm still making my CD, though.
Posted
9:30 AM
by Sean
The 2002 World Series DVD is available. I'll get it, of course (probably after Christmas), along with a bunch of other overpriced swag from the Angels' web site. I'd really like to see a full-season retrospective, because some of the games during the season were just amazing. There were probably a dozen times I went to bed grinning like an idiot because they'd managed to come from behind when they looked done for.
Fortunately, I subscribe to MLB's streaming radio broadcasts. This is actually a pretty great deal if you follow a team that doesn't get broadcast in your home market - $14.95 buys a whole season of access to the radio broadcasts of every team. The stream is very slightly delayed (maybe 30 seconds), but how cool is it to be able to listen to any broadcast for any game? This year, I got to listen to Ernie Harwell do a couple of Tigers games, I heard an Expos broadcast in French, and, of course, lots and lots of Angels games (until I subscribed to the cable package for the second half of the season). Plus, they're archived, so you can go back and listen to any game. My favorite so far, I think, has been listening to the Twins' broadcasters react to Adam Kennedy's third home run in Game 5 of the ALCS - the Twins had just taken the lead in the previous half-inning, and Kennedy's shot had Kent Hrbek shouting "No! God, NO!"
So I think that one of my off-season projects will be to find a way to record streaming audio and compile my own damn highlight CD.
The 2002 World Series DVD is available. I'll get it, of course (probably after Christmas), along with a bunch of other overpriced swag from the Angels' web site. I'd really like to see a full-season retrospective, because some of the games during the season were just amazing. There were probably a dozen times I went to bed grinning like an idiot because they'd managed to come from behind when they looked done for.
Fortunately, I subscribe to MLB's streaming radio broadcasts. This is actually a pretty great deal if you follow a team that doesn't get broadcast in your home market - $14.95 buys a whole season of access to the radio broadcasts of every team. The stream is very slightly delayed (maybe 30 seconds), but how cool is it to be able to listen to any broadcast for any game? This year, I got to listen to Ernie Harwell do a couple of Tigers games, I heard an Expos broadcast in French, and, of course, lots and lots of Angels games (until I subscribed to the cable package for the second half of the season). Plus, they're archived, so you can go back and listen to any game. My favorite so far, I think, has been listening to the Twins' broadcasters react to Adam Kennedy's third home run in Game 5 of the ALCS - the Twins had just taken the lead in the previous half-inning, and Kennedy's shot had Kent Hrbek shouting "No! God, NO!"
So I think that one of my off-season projects will be to find a way to record streaming audio and compile my own damn highlight CD.
Monday, November 25, 2002
Posted
10:03 AM
by Sean
The Mets take some steps toward pegging ticket prices to demand. The Cubs announced a similar plan last week. If this keeps up, Fidel Castro will be the very last person on the planet not on a college campus to believe in the labor theory of value.
The Mets take some steps toward pegging ticket prices to demand. The Cubs announced a similar plan last week. If this keeps up, Fidel Castro will be the very last person on the planet not on a college campus to believe in the labor theory of value.
Posted
9:54 AM
by Sean
Has Peter Gammons turned into Andy Rooney? The cranky ol' sumbitch lists 25 things to change about baseball, and it's pretty clear that he's got about 20 too many. Do they pay him by the word? How else to explain the fact that #1 is "Teams that allow public relations to dictate personnel and organizational decisions" and #24 is "we need stricter consequences for an intentional walk?" In other words, "listening to the fans is stupid, except when they want to see someone pitch to Barry Bonds."
Has Peter Gammons turned into Andy Rooney? The cranky ol' sumbitch lists 25 things to change about baseball, and it's pretty clear that he's got about 20 too many. Do they pay him by the word? How else to explain the fact that #1 is "Teams that allow public relations to dictate personnel and organizational decisions" and #24 is "we need stricter consequences for an intentional walk?" In other words, "listening to the fans is stupid, except when they want to see someone pitch to Barry Bonds."