MLB NETWORK

laprimamirala wrote:

I do as well. I missed it when it was on PBS.
This idea of a 24/7/365 baseball channel is more than overdue.

You guys are so lucky!!

No MLB NETWORK in Europe fo course.

Gogetem is taping a few things.

Swiss, we'll have to send you some sort of BlackBox.

gdennis59 wrote:

Swiss, we'll have to send you some sort of BlackBox.

This would feel like heaven for me.
At least i have mlb.tv which is ok during the season, but all the reports and historic games on MLB NETWORK... wow!

Maybe write a letter to the cable companies saying that they should carry MLB Network.

I am trying to record: January

Prime 9:
- A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Centerfielders (Cobb included)
- A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Home Runs
- A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Characters of the Game
- A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Pitching Seasons
- A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Rookie Seasons
- A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Greatest Hitting Seasons
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A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Unbreakable Records
-
A Countdown Show Featuring the All-Time Top 9 Shortstops

Cathedrals of the Game
- A Tour of the St. Louis Cardinals Busch Stadium
- A Tour of the Philadelphia Phillies Citizens Bank Park
- A Tour of the Toronto Blue Jays Rogers Centre Stadium
- A Tour of the Baltimore Orioles Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Bloopers: the funny side of Baseball
- ?
- Philadelphia Phillies @ Tampa Bay Rays

HR Derbys: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

Ken Burns' Baseball Documentary of the History of the Game
- 9 innings each 2.5 hour sections

MLB Network Special:
- Pride and Perseverance: The Story of the Negro Leagues
- 2008 NL Plays of the Year
- 2008 AL Plays of the Year

2006 ALCS: Tigers-Oakland League Pennant Clinching Game

2006 Tiger-Cardinals WS Games
- 6 games

Baseball Seasons:
- 1968 Year of the Pitcher as Bob Gibson Set a Modern-Day Record with a 1.12 ERA; Denny McLain Won
31 Games and his Teammate Mickey Lolich Won 3 Games in the World Series
- 1986 - The Year of the Debut: Greg Maddux, Barry Bonds, Will Clark, Bo
Jackson, Barry Larkin, Jamie Moyer and Fred McGriff started their
careers. Red Sox and Mets wage historic World Series battle.

WS Highlights: 1945 World Series matchup: Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs

Inside The Moments:
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Fall Classic Finales
- Magic on the Mound

If any of the other stuff scheduled is desired by anyone, PM me.

I also copied:

All-Time Games - 1956 World Series Game 5 Brooklyn Dodgers @ NY Yankees featuring Don Larsen's Perfect Game.

I may do the Red Sox Memories 5 part Series. I am not sure yet.

Lotta classics.

I can't wait to see Feb. schedule!

gdennis59 wrote:

Maybe write a letter to the cable companies saying that they should carry MLB Network.

I don't think that will work. It's impossible to get a channel from the US. The only thing we have in our cable is CNN. That's it. I know it's the same thing in Germany.
There are some payTV possibilities. But nothing from the US.

You could always get Slingbox. Of course for that to work you would need to buy a second home in the US, get TV at that home, and hook the slingbox up to that TV....

...It's probably not worth it.

swiss_tiger wrote:

You guys are so lucky!!

No MLB NETWORK in Europe fo course.

none in Trashy Park either

01/13/09 1:50 PM EST
MLB Network to air Caribbean Series
Baseball channel will broadcast live from Mexico in February

By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com

MLB Network is heading to Mexicali, Mexico, to broadcast the annual Caribbean World Series from Feb. 2-7.

The 12-game tournament will mark the first time the fledgling Network will broadcast live games. Previously, it had scheduled a 16-game slate of World Baseball Classic games when that tournament is played from March 5-23.

In addition to the live events, the Network will air game highlights and recaps of tournament play, preview matchups and provide extensive coverage as part of its hour-long studio show "Hot Stove," which is broadcast each weeknight live at 7 p.m. ET.

"MLB Network is proud to join the long, historic tradition of the Caribbean World Series," said Tony Petitti, MLB Network president and chief executive. "We are excited to make this great international event available to a broad audience of baseball fans."

Save for a decade hiatus, the Caribbean World Series has been played every year since 1949 and usually includes the winner of the Winter Leagues from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. The host country cycles every four years.

"The Caribbean World Series offers baseball fans the opportunity to experience competitive play combined with national pride. We are pleased that the tournament will reach its largest distribution ever through the MLB Network," said Sara Loarte of Cultiva Entertainment, the exclusive Major League Baseball sanction agent for the series.

MLB Network launched on Jan. 1 to a prospective audience of 50 million basic digital cable subscribers. It is also planning a 26-week schedule of Major League games on Thursday nights, beginning with the first week of the regular season.

Mexicali is just south of the border from Calexico, Calif., in the Imperial Valley, and the series is expected this year to draw interest from the U.S. It is the first time the town is hosting "La Serie del Caribe," and it is projected that the games will attract 40,000 tourists and pump $16 million into the region's economy.

The series ran from 1949-1960 with Cuba winning seven times, but it was suspended for a decade when Cuban president Fidel Castro abolished professional baseball in his country. The series then was revived in '70 and has been played ever since without Cuba as a participant.

The Dominicans hosted the series in 2008 and placed two teams in the tournament because Puerto Rico didn't field a team on account of a one-year hiatus in the Puerto Rican Winter League. The tournament was won by the Dominican's Tigres Del Licey.

Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

WOW Cable still ain't carrying it

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Bob Costas to join MLB Network
The Detroit News

Legendary sportscaster Bob Costas has signed a multi-year deal to join the upstart MLB Network, the league announced Tuesday.

A lifelong baseball fan who covered the game regularly for NBC during the 1980s and '90s, Costas, 56, will host several original documentaries and be the lead play-by-play voice for a select number of the upcoming season's 26 nationally-televised Thursday night games.

His first assignment is an exclusive interview with Dodgers manager (and now published author) Joe Torre that is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. Thursday (Ch. 279 on Comcast, 213 on DirecTV).

Costas will remain the face of NBC Sports.

I am missing all the fun!


Darn!