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I don't care about team sports (I live in the skate/surf/"xtreme" sports camp), but I find baseball to be the WORST spectator sport.
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Apple TV+ Announces 'Friday Night Baseball' Schedule for July With All Games Remaining Free to Watch
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Too. Bloody. Slow.
I don’t get the impression that this was meant to entertain customers as much as it was a vessel for Apple to pimp its products and services.
If they’re making it free though July, they might as well give us the whole season free. Doesn’t make much sense in my opinion to start charging you the last two months of the season.
Apple and Major League Baseball today announced the July schedule for "Friday Night Baseball," with all of the games available to watch for free on Apple TV+ without a subscription. Assigned broadcasters for each game will be announced on a weekly basis.
"Friday Night Baseball" games and additional content, including live pregame and postgame shows, can be watched in the Apple TV app across the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD boxes, select Xbox and PlayStation consoles, select smart TVs, on the web at tv.apple.com, and elsewhere. "Friday Night Baseball" can be watched in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and the UK.
The schedule is as follows:"Friday Night Baseball" debuted on Apple TV+ in April and will continue throughout the 2022 regular season, with no subscription required for a limited time.
Article Link: Apple TV+ Announces 'Friday Night Baseball' Schedule for July With All Games Remaining Free to Watch
Years ago they added a purple blur to show puck movement in hockey games. It was awful. Whatever the sport is, there is nothing like being at the game. Haven't watched the baseball on Apple TV because I have MLBTV through T-Mobile. But, will give it a look tomorrow.
I am a baseball fan but I’ve had a hard time staying interested in these broadcasts. The announcing is just dreadful to me. Where’s the chemistry? I guess that’s expected when these are weekly games and the local announcers are in tune with each team every day.
It’s hit or miss. The first Yankees game they broadcasted was horrendous. The second one is ok.
Agreed. My Giant's were on this service, the commentators were so bad I finally turned off the TV. I mean the commentators were the absolute worst ever. I kept wondering if any of them had ever seen a baseball game before or if any had ever done play by play and color for a game. Clearly none of them had ever played the game. Unfortunately I see that my Giants are back on this service end of July...UGH!
Funny my first thought when I read your post was Apples TV + experiment with baseball would be a hit or a miss.
Quite possibly the worst commentary team ever. I finally just turned off my TV...and my Giants were playing! Yes, the commentary team was THAT bad.
Agree with some things others not so much. Pitch location definitely still matters as does movement or like you said those balls are going out of the park, Base stealing is down but still a decent amount of frequency. Bunting is down probably because its a lot harder with the velocity and spin rate in todays game.
Defense matters and has actually gained more attention and strategy with teams playing a variety of shifts which to me make the game interesting, though sounds like they will be banning the shift next year which on the bright side would create more offense but take away strategy.
Ya a lot of batters are swinging for the fences but HR's are what a lot of fans have found the most exciting part of the game for ever so I'm not made at there being a lot of HR's in the game.
I do agree more situational hitting and bunting and risks on the base paths would be nice to have back in the game though.
So many people complaining on the Red Sox. I don't follow baseball, but it seems there is a nice rivalry going on
That and you can only watch live. Can't pause fast forward or rewind. Doesn't seem very techy when I can do that on my cable providers PVR. I cringe when the games are blacked out for my provider because Apple tv has the game. Looks like I have to struggle through one more jays game or probably just skip watching that one.
I feel Apple is missing a trick here. First, these games are only shown live. Apple should record these to watch later. Second, these games are shown outside of North America, yet there are many people who don’t know baseball. Apple could feature beginner’s guide, documentaries, etc. to get more people interested in baseball
The visuals are indeed stunning on ATV+ but good lord the commentators are bad. Its like they got the D team at every local broadcaster and tried to make them seem ready for prime time. I would love some of the local sports commentators to be involved especially if they are not allowed to broadcast the game anyway, use the talent that already exists.
I'd have to disagree with someone who said it's better than ESPN's commentary, as much as I rather watch paint dry than listen to A-Rod do play by play, I'd take it over someone who fumbles over names and plays.
I'd have to disagree with someone who said it's better than ESPN's commentary, as much as I rather watch paint dry than listen to A-Rod do play by play, I'd take it over someone who fumbles over names and plays.
I've been enjoying the Peacock games. I wish they weren't on so early here (Peacock should get the Sunday Night game) but I think it's my favorite of the national packages going on.
I have to disagree with everything past the first comma. I watched them cover the Mariners a couple weeks back. It seemed to me the ATV+ commentators were barely interested in what was actually happening on the field - and, when they did comment on the play, it was as if a couple of them had learned about baseball from reading Wikipedia and doing Twitter hashtag lookups.
But there is no reason one can't turn the volume down and listen to the local radio broadcast while watching the video on ATV+.
Yes, like a glowing blue circle that leaves trails and turns red over a certain speed. Also, they should use a camera on the other side of the ice, flip it, and then overlay it when the puck is obscured by the boards on the main camera side so you can watch where it is still. That’d be a game changer.
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I recall reading that talking heads or gameshow hosts typically need roughly 100 episodes of experience to get in the groove of a new show. For example - when John Oliver guest-hosted The Daily Show for an entire summer, it was good but not super smooth until the end. But that experience meant he could hit the ground running on Last Week Tonight. I think the same probably holds true for sports announcers. You need 100 games under your belt before you're good. I think it's only fair for us to reserve judgment until they have those 100 games
Especially since this is free. If Apple were charging us for this, that would be another story - I would be asking why Apple didn't hire someone with experience already. But since it's free, I think it's totally fine for Apple to bring up some inexperienced talent and for both Apple and fans to give them the runway to get experienced.
Also, it seems like some people in this thread watch baseball for the commentary? I watch it for the baseball. I miss that feature on MLBtv where you could just listen to the stadium noise with no commentary. I used to do that. Radio broadcasts are fun to listen to as well. There are options.
Agreed. It was almost comedy. At first I thought it was Mystery Science Theater. Just terrible. The people knew nothing about baseball. But, even worse, they didn't even study and learn names. I can buy a six pack, sit on my couch and do better. And, I don't even watch baseball regularly. So, I would suck.