Wow. That was terrible.
Today, the Phillies and the Mets played a game that was not televised, but only watchable if you had a Facebook account. The game was streamed and if you’re on Facebook, you could have watched it. Here’s a look at what it looked like in full screen (Facebook comments turned off). This image is from Reddit user “Dooglers”, found here.
As a fan of the game, for every aspect this MLB and Facebook partnership is terrible. The highlighting of the Instagram posts while people were batting was completely absurd. A few times it even gave me the obstructed view that I’ve never quite enjoyed from my own living room.
I’m sure the MLB gained a lot of data from this though. Hopefully the data shows that this was a complete mistake, and something the MLB should not continue into 2019.
John Kruk was alright though for a little while. He can stay.