October 2007

Wishlist for MLB Radio and TV

Since MLB Radio practically never replies to e-mail from users with problems, here's a wishlist for things to fix for next season:

  1. The error that has plagued returning Gameday Audio users all year has to be fixed. On a regular basis, returning subscribers, who subscribed to the 2007 season, when logging in have received messages encouraging them to subscribe again, and blocking further access. The only work-around has been to try a different browser, rotating listening from IE to Firefix to Netscape. This extremely irritating problem must be fixed.
  2. Some kind of mp3 solution has to be found so that subscribers can download and listen to games on portable players (and NOT just the iPod). There are obviously concerns about DRM and protecting against piracy. On the other hand, interest in a game usually lasts until the next game, and what kind of profit loss can there be in the availability of old games few want to listen to? By the time anyone spreads a file, no one would be interested.
  3. Subscribers should be able to burn the downloadable TV games to DVD. Watching a baseball game in front of a computer is ridiculous. If you pay for the game, you ought to be able to watch it on your TV.

That said, one feature of Gameday Audio did improve in 2007. In 2006 most attempts to fast forward within a game ended up returning to 0. This year it actually has worked.

Sundbyberg Wins Swedish Cup

In what must have felt like revenge for last week's loss in the finals of the Swedish Championships, Sundbyberg beat Karlskog 9-2 Saturday, to win the Swedish Cup.

Sundbyberg's pitcher Nick Soubiea was named Most Valuable Player.