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Let’s not repeat today’s Facebook MLB game

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.

Full screen capture of Facebook MLB game 4/4/18, FB comments turned off.

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.

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Back from a long abscence…Come to up bat for Willie.

Well, I’m back again. My blog here has sat for just over a year, with no new posts. A lot of readers, but no new content. 🙂 I really didn’t stop writing for no other reason that lack of time. A lot has happened in the last year…but I’m not going to rehash any of what we already know.

I’m back because I always used my blog to write about things I’m passionate about, whether it’s politics, the environment, transportation, computers, or whatever. Today, I’m writing about how the Wilpons – owners of the NY Mets – handled the firing of Willie Randolph.

The Wilpons should be ashamed of themselves. Firing Willie in the middle of the night on the west coast to avoid the NY media for a day, the Wilpons made a joke out of the Mets, out of Willie, and out of the fans. It left such distaste in my mouth, after this classless, classless act.

Willie—you’ll go on to bigger and better management jobs. Good luck to you.