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WHEN RADIO WAS

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qman

I remember as a kid sitting on the front porch with my transistor radio lisening to major league baseball on 50,000 watt blow torches all over the East Coast. On any given night I can listen to games featuring The New York Yankees, The New York Mets, The Chicago White Sox, The Chicago Cubs, The Cincinnati Reds, The St. Louis Cardinals, The Boston Red Sox, The Detroit Tigers, The Pittsburgh Pirates, The Philadelphia Phillies, The Atlanta Braves, The Minnesota Twins and the Montreal Expos.
Occasionally, I would even pull in the Texas Rangers. This isn't to mention all the NHL, NFL, NBA and college sports I can pull in during the cold weather months.

During the beter part of the last 20 years, however, with very few exceptions, smaller power stations in the above mentioned markets flipped to all sports and took all their teams with them. This is disappointing for people like me who enjoy listening to sports on the radio because I cannot pull in many of these stations where I live.

Before you tell me about cable and satellite, I can afford neither and I don't see well enough to be able to watch a game and follow along.

It's too bad that these blow torches feel they can make more money with Michael Savage, Neil Borts, Sean Hannity, etc. rather than play-by-play sports. What's worse is it's probably true.
 
qman said:
Before you tell me about cable and satellite, I can afford neither and I don't see well enough to be able to watch a game and follow along.
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I feel your pain - as a devout Red Sox fan, I'm relieved every season when WTIC in Hartford re-ups their contract with the team, providing the lone broadcast outlet that can be heard west of New England. (Their flagship, WRKO 680, is 50 kW, but highly directional to the east.)

But there's good news. For $12.95 - not per month, mind you, but for the whole season - you can sign up with mlb.com for their "Gameday Audio" service. I think it's just about the best bargain out there, personally...not only do I get to hear all my Sox games, day games included, without the fading and interference on the WTIC signal, but I can listen to any other MLB game all season long, too. There's even archived audio, if I miss a game.

I'd gladly pay three or four times as much for the service...but don't go telling MLB.com that!
 
Believe it or not, I don't even have a computer. i do all my viewing on-line from my cell phone. Sad isn't it?
 
Nothing sad about that - lots of people are accessing the net via cellphone handsets these days. (Though I'm curious - if your vision isn't good enough to follow a game on TV, how can you read radio-info on a tiny cellphone screen?)

Lucky for you, MLB.com offers Gameday Audio for mobile handsets, too. It costs a bit more - $5 a month instead of $13 for the whole season - but you get access to every game, all season, from anywhere your phone works, with no worries about interference, skywave fading, etc.

You can fault MLB for a lot of things, but they've been incredibly proactive in adapting to developing technology.
 
I'm also curious as to how you are viewing the content of the site on a cell phone, qman. I am also visually impaired, and one of the main reasons why I've held off on purchasing a cell phone and signing up for a plan is because I've never been able to see the text on the screen of any cell phone I've looked at.
 
I'm able to see the screen on my cell phone just by sticking the phone close enough to my face so I can practically lick the screen. I'm near sighted. I have a problem seeing small numbers on a tv screen even when it's 10 ft. away.
 
BTW Scott, I took your advice and subscribed to MLB Gameday Audio for $6.99 and just finished re-living the Chicago Cubs Carlos Zambrano pitching a no-hitter against the Houston Astros in Milwaukee. Thanks for the tip!
 
qman said:
BTW Scott, I took your advice and subscribed to MLB Gameday Audio for $6.99 and just finished re-living the Chicago Cubs Carlos Zambrano pitching a no-hitter against the Houston Astros in Milwaukee. Thanks for the tip!
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Glad I was able to help! Cool service, isn't it?
 
XM/Sirius is also an alternative for all the MLB broadcasts (although considerably more money than MLB.Com)
It is great to be able to hear baseball on radio....I share Scott's allegiance to Beantown baseball.
 
GSmitty said:
XM/Sirius is also an alternative for all the MLB broadcasts (although considerably more money than MLB.Com)
It is great to be able to hear baseball on radio....I share Scott's allegiance to Beantown baseball.
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More money, worse audio quality, and you only get the home team's radio broadcast - and who wants to be stuck listening to Sterling and Waldman call a Yankees-Red Sox game?
 
BTW They should re-unite John Sterling with Michael Kay! Those two worked well together I thought. Suzyn Waldman does nothing for me.
 
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