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Gems From the Web: 4/18
- Hey, remember Darren Dreifort? Well, that contract is still hilarious. [JoeSportsFan]
- Carl Pavano’s agent thinks of him as a #1-2 starter. The rest of the world: “…Really?” [SimonOnSports]
- Baseball players are meant to be fat? John Kruk must be a gold mine! [Larry Brown Sports]
- Mickey Mantle probably never hit a ball 565 feet. He did, however, knock back 565 beers one night. So he’s still got that record. [Fanhouse]
- JD Drew needs to make a little money on the side. We know the feeling, JD. Have you tried selling Google Ads on your uniform? [Hugging Harold Reynolds]
- If you saw a game in the 19th inning, would you live-blog the Gamecast? No? Well then you’re clearly not that cool. [The Arena]
- As your one-stop shop for all Pope-related baseball news, we feel obligated to report that the Pope used Manny Acta’s office as a dressing room. We hear he also tried to exorcise Elijah Dukes, before giving up and saying it was “hopeless.” [Deadspin]
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Hi, it’s Rockabye from The Arena. While I appreciate the link, I would caution you to read the whole post before merely dismissing me as uncool.
I live on-campus at UF, where we get only basic cable, except for those with digital boxes. The only person I know with a box does not have the MLB Extra Innings package that would have allowed me to watch the game on TV.
One of the other provisions of on-campus living is not using P2P networks, like SopCast or MyP2P; if you do and the system catches you, you can say bye-bye to the Internet for a day or two.
Rather than do that or get gouged by MLB for 14.95 (the cost of their one-month MLBTV/radio pass), I chose to live-blog the GameCast, then an updating ticker from a San Diego radio station.
Certainly, I would have rather blogged a live broadcast, either on TV or radio, but my options were limited at 3:30 AM EST. I hope you understand that I know my efforts were meta-blogging at best, and that’s why I tried to provide other stats and observations rather than strict play-by-play.
Again, thanks for the link; I hope this clears things up.
[...] (Update: Elsewhere on the Interwebs, people have called into question the “cool” of live-blogging the GameCast of a 19th inning game. I responded in the comments; feel free to read that there.) [...]
Wow.
Okay, first off, sorry. I promise I’m not just being nice but that was actually a typo. Livelogging something you’re not watching is something I would never think of and completely awesome.
If it’s any consolation, I also didn’t put Larry Brown Sports in brackets before. My typing wasn’t very good this morning.
Anyway, sorry for the typo and the unintentional insult. It’s corrected.
It’s no big deal. I just don’t want the blogosphere devolving into internecine warfare.
We already have one Democratic Party in America; we don’t need two. Consider yourself added to my blogroll/favorites.