Helaine and I are watching the Phillies-Braves game on the computer. If we had our druthers, we’d be watching the Phillies play-by-play team. Major League Baseball doesn’t give you that option. We’ve got the “Peachtree TV” Atlanta oriented broadcast instead, as we had last night.
Baseball isn’t always action packed, so I’m doing other things on the computer, and bringing up the baseball window when warranted. The sound stays on 100%.
I’m not sure what it is the Atlanta broadcasters have done, but every time the ball hits the bat, it sounds like a home run. Crack!. Pop fly, grounder to second, line drive… It makes no difference. Crack!.
It is disconcerting, to say the least. Does the baseball experience really need to be hyped this way?
Speaking of sound. For the first time, play-by-play announcer Skip Caray sounds really old. There’s a weakness and quiver in his voice. I wonder if he’s not well?
Geoff,
Why not get DirecTV and buy the Extra Innings package? That way you can get the Phillies broadcast wherever they are.
There are a variety of reasons, not the least of which is, Comcast is the ONLY high speed Internet provider here. I could buy the MLB package they offer, but the computer is more versatile in being able to move from room-to-room.
Sometime in the next few days I’m going to write why Internet and not cable is the best spot for on-demand programming.
Let me guess….one of the reasons you can’t get DirecTV is trees?
As far as Internet access, AT&T DSL doesn’t reach you? How about Uverse? Any tan, refrigerator sized boxes on telephone poles in your neighborhood?
Neither DSL nor Uverse are available here. There are smaller concerns about having more TVs than these digital services cover.