Listen to Baseball on the Internet
This one is for sports fanboys only. Baseball season has started, and MLB.com has just sweetened what already is a sweet deal for its audio package.
Major League Baseball is offering three months of Sports Illustrated for free with its Gameday Audio live online radio broadcasts package. Gameday Audio permits you to listen to every baseball game of the regular and post-seasons for $14.95, either with the home team's broadcast, the visiting team's broadcast or in Spanish. There are no blackouts and archives are available.
This seems to me to be a far better deal than MLB's online video, which only provides out of market games and costs $14.95 a month. Though video quality has improved, it's still a better idea to watch TV on a TV and not streaming on a computer. If you're traveling, you can catch your team on the audio broadcasts easily enough.
And hey, baseball really was meant to be listened to rather than watched. It's a game in which your imagination – helped by a good broadcaster – can fill in the expansive green spaces in your mind. You can “see” a baseball game better in audio than on video (OK, maybe it's not good enough for the World Series.). Furthermore, there seems to be no way at all to find radio broadcasts of baseball online other than at this website.
And if it's audio, fellas, you may be able to convince your significant other to listen to it with you in a darkened corner of the living room or bedroom; she may not want to take a computer screen into such an intimate setting, but the audio just may work wonders when you swing for the fences.
Additional tip: In my humble opinion, MLB.com does a better job of providing game coverage than most sports and news websites. Newly open ballhype.com is a Digg-type sports blog and news aggregator, if you must multitask while listening to the game.
Comments
fu ppl this shit should be free
ya fu ppl, shit like dis needs to be free like a eagle