{"id":209,"date":"2018-04-04T18:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2018-04-04T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T23:51:00","slug":"lets-not-repeat-todays-facebook-mlb-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/lets-not-repeat-todays-facebook-mlb-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not repeat today&#8217;s Facebook MLB game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 That was terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Phillies and the Mets played a game that was not televised, but only watchable if you had a Facebook account.\u00a0 The game was streamed and if you&#8217;re on Facebook, you could have watched it.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a look at what it looked like in full screen (Facebook comments turned off).\u00a0 This image is from Reddit user &#8220;Dooglers&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Dooglers\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_210\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-210\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AzMcn42.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-210\" src=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AzMcn42-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AzMcn42-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AzMcn42-768x434.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AzMcn42-1024x578.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AzMcn42.jpg 1532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full screen capture of Facebook MLB game 4\/4\/18, FB comments turned off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a fan of the game, for every aspect this MLB and Facebook partnership is terrible.\u00a0 The highlighting of the Instagram posts while people were batting was completely absurd.\u00a0 A few times it even gave me the obstructed view that I&#8217;ve never quite enjoyed from my own living room.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the MLB gained a lot of data from this though.\u00a0 Hopefully the data shows that this was a complete mistake, and something the MLB should not continue into 2019.<\/p>\n<p>John Kruk was alright though for a little while.\u00a0 He can stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The game was streamed and if you&#8217;re on Facebook, you could have watched it.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a look at what it looked like in full screen (Facebook comments turned off).\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/lets-not-repeat-todays-facebook-mlb-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let&#8217;s not repeat today&#8217;s Facebook MLB game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[17,15],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}