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11:00 — Boston Red Sox at Texas Rangers (ESPN 2 and NESN)11:00 — Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds (WGN and FSN Ohio)11:00 — Pittsburgh Pirates at Milwaukee Brewers (FSN North)11:01 — I know FSN is overtly trying to be depressingly homogenous, but certainly some FSN networks are more likely than others to show Piggly Wiggly [...]
And away we go (times listed are Pacific Daylight Time)…
10:00 — Washington Nationals at New York Mets (ESPN and, in theory, SportsNet New York)10:00 — DirecTV has the channel space set aside for the Mets’ new network, SportsNet New York, but I don’t think they’ve actually signed the contract yet. They have the game [...]
Wow, I stayed up longer than the Los Angeles Times sports department last night! They went to press with “the White Sox quickly took control and built a 10-4 lead after 7 1/2 innings,” but I was awake until I caught up with the TiVo recording in the middle of the 8th inning. [...]
Hey, the season starts in less than four hours!
I did it in 2004, I did it in 2005, and courtesy of my current lack of employment, I’ll be doing it again tomorrow: sitting in front of a TV equipped with DirecTV’s free-for-the-first-week MLB Extra Innings package and watching the Opening Day games. As [...]
10:00 — Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers (ESPN 2 and FSN Detroit)10:26 — In the 2nd inning, the Detroit announcers mention Jeremy Bonderman’s 14-strikeout game last year for the first time.10:30 — Milwaukee Brewers at Pitttsburgh Pirates (ESPN alternate feed and FSN Pittsburgh)10:52 — The Pirates announcers call Florida “bland.” The state, that [...]
On the WGN Radio broadcast of today’s Cubs game, Pat Hughes thanked a listener for sending him and color man Ron Santo a book of palindromes. “Well be getting to that later on,” Pat said. I can’t think of a better gift for those two.
Now we get to see how Luke spells a weary groan [...]
The best thing I saw was the Royals getting two home runs in the bottom of the 9th to win.
The worst thing I saw was Joe Buck sucking up to George W. Bush in a pre-game on-field interview, although as it turns out, during the game, he’s a lot more tolerable when teamed up with [...]
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