Here’s a story about the reasons why MLBAM ditched Microsoft Silverlight as the streaming video platform for MLB.com. Lots of technical stuff if you care, but this passage interested me the most: The other major issue was that baseball considered Silverlight too unstable. There were some high-profile glitches, including last year’s opening day, which saw […]
Petco Park opened five years ago, and today the Union-Tribune takes stock: Five years after the first Padres curveball was thrown at Petco Park, San Diego’s investment in the $474 million ballpark has delivered mixed results. On a recent afternoon, the good and the marginal returns were on display. Along J Street, where the ballpark […]
I’m not a huge fan of writing big predictions pieces. It just seems to daunting, by the time my thoughts have crystalized about what might happen in the upcoming season, everyone has already written theirs, and the season has started. Oh, and I’m always wrong too. Other than that, they’re great. That said, when someone […]
Things to read while you contemplate snow-outs in Chicago: The THT staff has its predictions up. I am the sole person who has the Rangers winning the division. No, I’m not sure why either. Just feels right. Chris Jaffe runs down times when baseball history and real life history coincided. Not as good as the […]
The guys at River Ave. Blues have a pledge drive going to benefit the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation: Last year we decided to use the popularity of RAB for some good, creating a pledge drive dedicated to raising money for The Jorge Posada Foundation. We based the pledges on the number of strikeouts […]
A very long piece in Vanity Fair in which a writer, who comes right out and admits that he doesn’t care a lick for baseball, spends time in spring training trying to figure out if baseball will save America’s psyches from the economic doldrums or something. I found it frustrating for a hundred reasons, yet […]