For me (Time Warner – Northeast Ohio), MLB Network is on channel 326.

They had a Manny (non)update early in the Hot Stove program and used a good amount of Indians file footage, a brief Red Sox swing and finished with Dodgers footage. That made me happy and made it easier to look past the heavy amount of Yankees coverage in the rest of the broadcast.

I briefly fell asleep during the Don Larsen perfect game. I know Vin Scully is an institution, but his tone didn’t really convey the fact it was game 5 of the World Series—let alone pitching perfectly.

When I go to that website it tells me I should have it but that channel tells me to call my provider to subscribe. what gives?

the fiance is not thrilled about this in the least.

My dad called me as soon as he saw that they were airing the original broadcast commercials for the Larsen game. He sounded like a kid.

I’m optimistic.

Website says I have it on 410 but I don’t. Nor do I have it on Brick’s 291.

Well, F.

Getting it on Channel 280, Comcast Philadelphia.

Dish Network doesn’t have the channel so I sent them an email asking when they were going to get it. Here is the response:

Thank you for your e-mail. We do apologize for the inconvenience, at the moment we are not currently offering this channel. We would like to add this to make viewers like you happy, but we do not know if or when this will happen. We are always working to acquire more programming to provide services to our valued customers.

So, yeah, doesn’t look like I’ll be getting it any time soon. I figured both sattelite companies would pick it up right away, but I guess only one of them did. And not mine.

I am pleased that as a Time Warner customer, I get the channel since the NFL network thing has been a debacle. However, only a matter of time until I make the switch to Fios

So is this going to compromise and mlb.tv coverage?

This plus Fios getting Extra Innings means I am pumped!

Thanks for the response, but it was just a haiku, not a serious question.

I caught Hot Stove Live last night just before midnight. They didn’t go deep but is was refreshing just to see how much time they could devote to discussion. They talked to Cameron Maybin (odds we would see him on Baseball Tonight?) for what seemed like ten minutes and then had a roundtable discussion on Ben Sheets and why he hasn’t been signed yet. They actually went beyond just each member of the panel giving a 15-second opinion over Ben Sheets b-roll. It wasn’t groundbreaking but I liked it. They just seemed to give their attention to each topic until the topic didn’t need to be discussed any more. I’ll definitely watch more.

But with a 24/7 baseball network is it too much to ask for one show that caters to a statistical analysis crowd? You can’t hire one guy that can drop WARP into a conversation? I don’t even care if they call it “Nerd Hour” or something, I want it.

Evan (Evan, right? I’m just going off that 13WHAM video), send in your demo. Come on.

sounds like there’s an AL central breakdown tonight at 7pm.

I like the MLB Network, but it reminds me how much I hate Comcast. They advertise “1400 hours of programming and all in HD,” but it’s only SD, not HD. It’s still not identified by name in the on-screen guide (Channel 280 in Richmond), and the programming is all listed as To Be Announced. I really hope they have it in HD before the season starts, but I don’t have much hope, given their resistance to HD feeds in the Extra Innings package. FiOS is not available in my neighborhood (and I had a horrible experience when I had it, involving a Verizon contractor, returned equipment and a $600 bill referred to a collection agency for equipment I returned, have a receipt for, but they claim I didn’t). My neighbor’s trees make DirecTV impossible.

so, i have been watching a lot of this channel. i kid you not, i haven’t turned on espn since it came on line. i like hotstove so far, so i look forward to what their version of baseball tonight is going to be when the season starts. also looking forward to the ken burns documentary.

I’m watching the ’95 season recap right now. Wow did I enjoy watching that team.