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pecuniumI 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.
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.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:57 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-05-08 03:58 pm (UTC)