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What I don’t like about MLB.tv’s multi-angle view

Alejandro A. Leal — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:21:12 +0000

Makes me nauseous … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: mlb advance media, MLB new media goons, mlb.tv, mlbam, postseason, postseason.tv

MLB All-Star Game streaming features multiple camera angles

Alejandro A. Leal — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:15:45 +0000

I love me some mlb new media goonies … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: broadcasting, FOX, Joe Buck, MLB new media goons, Tim Mccarver

ESPN.com sucks on weekends

Nick Kapur — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:13:16 +0000

Has anyone noticed how much ESPN.com, especially their “MLB” page, sucks over the weekend? Maybe not, since the time when most people most obsessively check the internet is during the week, when they are at work and supposed to be doing other things.

But now that I am living in Japan, where due to timezone differences my weekend hardly overlaps with the US weekend, I really notice it. The front page hardly gets updated. Web gems don’t get posted at all. Don’t even think about new columns or … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: ESPN.com, laziness, weekends

Apple, AT&T and MLB Advanced Media’s ménage à trois

Alejandro A. Leal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:48:28 +0000

MLBAM has been quite the busy little new media whore. … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: broadcasting, mlb advance media, MLB new media goons, mlb.tv, sling media, sling player

Not all that shines is gold: A second look at MLB.tv

Alejandro A. Leal — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:46:43 +0000

MLB New Media Goons, I’m sad to report, are back. … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: MLB new media goons, mlb.tv

MLB.com unveils “Yankee Stadium Home Run Watch”

Nick Kapur — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:55:50 +0000

There’s been lots of frowning and brow-furrowing so far this season about the rate at which homers have been sailing out of the yard at the new Yankee Stadium, but the sooner we can all just accept it, the sooner we can move on with life and the enjoying of baseball. Because a stadium that already cost over $1 … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: home runs, mlb.com, New Yankee Stadium, Yankee Stadium Home Run Watch

Can Yankees Appease Fed-Up Fans?

Sarah Green — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:13:35 +0000

I have a post up today over at HarvardBusiness.org on the PR disaster that is the New Yankee Stadium. Mostly, I just had fun pointing out all their customer-facing mistakes, but I’m curious: if we were being proactive and constructive (instead of snarktastic) is there anything the Yankees could do at this point to appease their fed-up … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: New Yankee Stadium, Yankees

Reviewing the new MLB.TV: Yes, it’s a winner

Alejandro A. Leal — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:23:48 +0000

For all the bile and hatred Bud Selig and his New Media Goons invoked a few years ago with their DirecTV exclusive deal, you’ve … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: MLB new media goons, mlb.tv

Citi Field: Alyssa Milano’s “Touch” Boutique

Sarah Green — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:00:52 +0000

I was at Citi Field, at the second of two Red Sox-Mets exhibition games, just exploring the stadium a bit, when I happened to wander past a gift shop. For some reason, it caught my eye. I felt drawn to it. I moved in closer:

What at first was a faint sense of “Hmm, this rings a bell” instantly became a loud, insistant, jangling bell, like one of those old-fashioned alarm clocks. Wait! Was it? Could it be? It was!

Somewhere, a woman screamed.

I think it was me.

… [visit site to read more]

Tagged: alyssa-milano, Touch Boutique

Congress takes aim at Citifield naming deal

Alejandro A. Leal — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:45:02 +0000

K-Rod the builder?

It hasn’t been a good couple of days for Citigroup. After being publicly chastised by … [visit site to read more]

Tagged: Citi Field, Citigroup, Mets