 Monday, October 23, 2006
Old and New Technology Meet in World Series Game 1
For obvious reasons, I wasn't looking forward to Saturday's World
Series Game 1. However, as Boston Bob says, I have a way of turning lemons
into lemonade.
While working on public folder replication from our DC office to our
secret offsite location via our NY office Internet link, I put MLB.com's
World Series Gameday Radio on. Since I work on the inside of a
building next to our data center (and on Saturday who a colleague who called out sick), it is hard to get regular AM radio (old technology) but Gameday Radio is a great workaround through the Internet (new technology). $14.95 for every game
from every team in both English and Spanish (where available) language
broadcasts for the entire regular season and playoffs is the best $14.95
I spent. "No Tip Vic" calls me "Cheap Tom" but I am value oriented.
I grew up listening to Phil Rizzuto on a Walton (upstate), New York,
radio station. If I am not at the game, I still prefer listening to the
game on the radio than on TV because radio broadcasters are better
story tellers and more articulate than their less entertaining TV counterparts. Get better soon and hope to see you at next year's Old Timer's Game at the Stadium.
In general, radio broadcasters are so much better than the TV
broadcasters, except for Michael Kay who did radio before he went to TV.
His weekdday 4 pm to 7 pm radio show on ESPN 1050 AM better than his YES
broadcasts which he is good at. To Tim McCarver on TV, everyone throws
fastballs on every pitch. 
Speaking of pitches, if I wanted to check pitch speed and location,
MLB.com's Gamecast provided it to me.
On Saturday night, I was treated to retired Hall of Fame broadcaster
Ernie Harwell briefly stopping by the Tiger booth. Mr Harwell spent most
of his 55 year broadcast career with the Tigers.
As for the game itself, Detroit took an early 1-0 lead but Saint Louis
came back led by increasingly surly and reigning NL MVP King Albert
Pujols. Rookie Perez pitched an unbelievable 8+ innings in the Cardinals
7-2 win. Braden Looper even didn't blow the game like he used to for
the Mets. Looper joins Jeff Weaver and Kenny Rogers as rehabbed NY
Choke Artists to find success elsewhere. Saint Louis leads the series 1-0.
Posted by The Tank via old and new technology in NY.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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