I love technology

[pecunium]

I am a baseball fan. As with most I have my predjudices (The loss of Astroturf was good, the DH is wrong. Interleague play is an abomination, the Yankees should lose, and my two favorite teams are the Dodger's, and the guys playing the Giants. The last has, at times, made me hope the Yankees don't lose [see above, re interleague play] my dread fear is someday the Giants and Yankees in the Series. I don't know what I'd do, probably drink; a lot).

So I'm in Tennessee. Needless to say, I don't get to watch my beloved Dodgers. I don't even get the joy of VinnieVision; Vin Sculley has been announcing for the Dodgers since before they left Brooklyn.

That's fifty-five years. He used to make the road trips. He's a little old for that, so he only does the Western Division now (which is doable, because it no longer has oddities like Atlanta). He's got a lot of practice at explaining what he sees so the radio audience can see it too. I can, I think, use the computer to stream the games. I can do this because they are never going to be playing so close to me that they are blacked out.

I am not willing to let KABC Radio install things on my computer, so I can't get the radio feed.

What I can get is the CBC sportsfeed. It's great. Set for the 60 second refresh and the game is just shy of live. There's a strange sort of drama. The names are a little slow to keep up (They didn't swap the pitcher in the ninth right away, even though Lorretta pinch hit for him).

It's got tension. It's kind of like getting the game by wire. Waiting for the refresh, so one can see what's changed.

It ain't Vinnie, but it will do, it will most decidedly do.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Vin Scully's voice is a strong memory from my youth. My mother was a Dodgers fan from the time they moved to California until her death in 1998. After she came to live with us in Minnesota, she carefully scanned the TV listings for any game that she could see here.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

It amuses me that you, in the US are getting your baseball fix, about another American team, from Canada.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I love technology.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

I agree about astroturf and the DH. I root for the Mets, and whoever's playing the Yankees.

I live in Buffalo, and sometimes I can pick up WFAN on the radio (50,000 watt clear channel at 660 AM) and listen to the same people call the game as when I was a youngster.

I have not forgiven the Dodgers for leaving Brooklyn.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I can appreciate that, but I am so very grateful they did.

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Lex clavitoris designatum delenda est!

[mycroftw.livejournal.com]

The (baseball-knowing) world is divided into two groups - those who love the Yankees, and those who hate them. There are no moderates. In Formula 1, it's Ferrari, in (English) football, it's Man. U. There's always one.

In Canada, of course, it's the Laughs^H^H^H^H^H^HLeafs. Of course, living in Calgary as I do, I have your problem whenever Edmonton plays Toronto...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

libertango is of the opinion the Yankees don't have fans, they have supporters.

I do know that all the Yankees fans I've seen in the wild have an amazing sense of exceptionalism. I went to watch a Dodgers/Yankees game (The good guys lost, took the series, but lost that game). I was unable to avoid the two guys in the row behind, who spent the entire time telling everyone how much better Jeter was than anyone. Not just anyone on the field, but enyone in the Leage, and damn near anyone who had ever been.

It was enough to make us really friendly with the guy in the Giant's jacket (who was, despite his unfortunate taste in teams, I blame his parents, a swell fellow).

The best part of that series... watching Gagne fan A-rod. One ball, two-strikes, and a change up. A-rod never had a chance. All his bluster that Gange was nothing to worry about... poof.