9/1 Orioles vs Rockies (Quantrill scratched, LHP Ty Blach starting)

[HowAboutThat]

4 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Calling Phelps “a gold medalist” is really underselling who he is. 
 

I’m sorry,  last time I checked, “gold medalist” was nowhere in the baseball vocabulary, and I’m watching a baseball
game.

Trying to anyway.

It’s a little bit more difficult with the sound turned down, but it’s worse when the camera shows three Talking Heads and not the baseball field.

idiots.

[Uli2001]

St Louis with 27 total bases through 6 2/3. Nice pitching by NY.

All AL teams are flawed this year, this is as good a chance as any the Orioles will have to reach the Series.

[mrbig1]

I'll be glad when Mounty gets back.

[LookitsPuck]

Eloy has had some great ABs today. Rivera, not so much. Dood has no business batting 5th.

[e16bball]

5 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'm pretty sure the NFL is doing dumb stuff like the MLB...like, streaming games on different platforms and if you don't have that platform, you can't watch.  Amazon Prime, Hulu, Peacock....

Yeah, the NFL is pretty bad with that.

I personally wouldn’t hold them up as a great example of making their games available to people who want to watch them. I live a little less than an hour from the dump formerly known as FedEx Field — and about 10 weekends per year, I can’t watch the Washington Football Commanders on my television because they’re “out of market.”

[HowAboutThat]

5 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

Yeah, I mean there are some in-game interviews that aren't that great but to piss on Michael Phelps is being intentionally obtuse, @HowAboutThat

I’m not downplay who he is, I know exactly who he is. I watched him swim, and points to you for using the word obtuse.
But my point stands. It’s a baseball game. I don’t want interviews with gold medalists during a baseball game that’s not the time for it. I don’t care if you’ve got Mark Spitz there these guys are supposed to be talking about the game on the field and things pertaining to the game on the field. I’m no less annoyed when they’re talking about the hotdogs in the local park. 

Everything about these broadcasts is dreadful. From the camera work to the commentary to the homerism to the voices. But the easiest thing to fix is just to get rid of the stupid endgame interviews if you want to talk to Michael Phelps or Joan Jett or the latest sports celebrity, do it after the game or before the game, and not during the game.

[Aristotelian]

I'm effin with Eflin!!!!

[dystopia]

13 minutes ago, mrbig1 said:

Since Eflin just came off the IL how far will Hyde let him go.

If Hyde takes him out with a perfect game after like 60 pitches he needs to be taken to the Gulag.

[Roy Firestone]

Coby leading off...fair to say he helped us ignite a big inning already? Hoping for a blast from him soon...we REALLY need the infusion of power.

[Moose Milligan]

2 minutes ago, e16bball said:

Yeah, the NFL is pretty bad with that.

I personally wouldn’t hold them up as a great example of making their games available to people who want to watch them. I live a little less than an hour from the dump formerly known as FedEx Field — and about 10 weekends per year, I can’t watch the Washington Football Commanders on my television because they’re “out of market.”

What an absolute ****hole that stadium is. Not one redeeming factor at all. 

[Aristotelian]

Just now, dystopia said:

If Hyde takes him out with a perfect game after like 60 pitches he needs to be taken to the Gulag.

Yeah I'd get on the fire Hyde bandwagon for that. 12 outs to go.

[CynBeth]

Way to go Eflin!!!

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, Roy Firestone said:

Coby leading off...fair to say he helped us ignite a big inning already? Hoping for a blast from him soon...we REALLY need the infusion of power.

Eflin’s got a perfecto going and you’re stuck on Mayo 

[C Taylor]

3 minutes ago, HowAboutThat said:

I’m not downplay who he is, I know exactly who he is. I watched him swim, and points to you for using the word obtuse.
But my point stands. It’s a baseball game. I don’t want interviews with gold medalists during a baseball game that’s not the time for it. I don’t care if you’ve got Mark Spitz there these guys are supposed to be talking about the game on the field and things pertaining to the game on the field. I’m no less annoyed when they’re talking about the hotdogs in the local park. 

Everything about these broadcasts is dreadful. From the camera work to the commentary to the homerism to the voices. But the easiest thing to fix is just to get rid of the stupid endgame interviews if you want to talk to Michael Phelps or Joan Jett or the latest sports celebrity, do it after the game or before the game, and not during the game.

Amen.

[Moose Milligan]

3 minutes ago, HowAboutThat said:

I’m not downplay who he is, I know exactly who he is. I watched him swim, and points to you for using the word obtuse.
But my point stands. It’s a baseball game. I don’t want interviews with gold medalists during a baseball game that’s not the time for it. I don’t care if you’ve got Mark Spitz there these guys are supposed to be talking about the game on the field and things pertaining to the game on the field. I’m no less annoyed when they’re talking about the hotdogs in the local park. 

Everything about these broadcasts is dreadful. From the camera work to the commentary to the homerism to the voices. But the easiest thing to fix is just to get rid of the stupid endgame interviews if you want to talk to Michael Phelps or Joan Jett or the latest sports celebrity, do it after the game or before the game, and not during the game.

If you’ve got an opportunity to listen to someone as good as Phelps was and to learn about what set them apart, you take it. More valuable than Brown telling me what I can see for myself.