Category Archives: Baseball

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Did MLB.TV properly compensate me for their error?

On Friday, it wasn’t.

On Friday, there were hardware issues with MLB.TV and I think half of the games lost their feeds and audio for viewers. A lot of fans were frustrated that they could not watch their teams play. And if they did, they were forced to watch the feed from the opposing team’s broadcasters.

(For those of you who don’t know, MLB.TV is a service you can get from Major League Baseball to watch out of market games of your favorite teams. Since I live in Los Angeles now, getting my fix of the Oakland A’s through MLB.TV is a huge blessing to me.)

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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of “Homer at the Bat” — the smoothest Simpsons episode ever

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the airing of The Simpsons‘ episode of “Homer at the Bat”. In my opinion, it is the smoothest episode the show has ever produced. It may even be their best.

(Deadspin put together a really nice recap of the episode’s significance.)

I grew up a huge Simpsons fan but when this episode first aired, I was only a 5-year old boy. I didn’t even know what this show was until I got a little older. By the  time I did finally watch the episode, I had no idea what kind of great impact this episode had.

But now that it’s 20 years later, I can appreciate it a lot more. Aside from the fact that baseball is my favorite sport, the best thing about this episode was its smooth storytelling.

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