Major League Baseball : Video : MLB.TV

Major League Baseball : Video : MLB.TV

I checked the streaming video of the Cubs-White Sox tilt yesterday and it was kind of cool. The picture is actually large enough to see what’s going on. The frame rate isn’t quite there. The action is a little choppy, which makes it hard to pick up the ball sometimes. But you can pick up pitch location and tell where the ball is hit and what sort of play the defense made.

Maybe the best way to think of it is as radio with pictures, which is a bit of a problem because TV announcers don’t really work very hard at talking about the game. I am looking forward to Dog Day, which I understand is one of the big promotions at Comiskey each sujmmer.

I was working while listening to the game and when something happened I could look over and see Damian Miller poking the ball into left field, or Bobby Hill drilling a ball into the gap. I have a few computers in my office and a DSL connection, which made that practical. I can also report that I could speak on my IP telephone and watch the game at the same time without any damage to the phone or picture quality.

There will be multiple games available each day, all season long, for a fee. That fee, $75 for the season, seems a little high. If I had a dish I’d definitely go for the Extra Innings package because the picture is so much better. But this just might do, and keep me out of the bars when I need an out of town game.

Is that a good thing?