Tag: BASEBALL

At Major League Baseball's annual winter meetings, general managers didn't just shop for free-agent players or discuss potential trades. According to The New York Times, they also browsed a trade show with a bevy of gadgets -- including the popular hand-sized radar gun and a smartphone app for concessions and souvenirs -- that could not only improve their teams, but also make a trip to the ...

Last night, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. Giants fans, naturally, did what sports fans do best after their team wins a championship: riot in the streets. Of course, Giants fans aren't just any sports fans; they're savvy social media users, too. Amid all of last night's revelry, Giants fans found the time to check in from the riots on Foursquare, and ...

The drama between FOX, its parent company News Corp and Cablevision continues to drag on. Cablevision's iO Digital Cable customers have been deprived of FOX programing for about two weeks, but it seems that people have, so far, survived without Glenn Beck and 'The Simpsons.' But, now, the standoff over broadcasting fees is encroaching on the World Series, and consumers simply won't stand for that. ...

On Oct. 15th, Fox Television and Cablevision failed to renew a contractual agreement about the broadcasting rights to Fox affiliates WNYW, WWOR and WTXF. Once the deadline to renew passed, Cablevision subscribers lost access to those local Fox channels, so now the Federal Communications Commission apparently feels obligated to intervene. Instead of mediating or doling out some form of ...

While technology isn't totally embraced on the baseball diamond, Major League Baseball is embracing it behind the scenes. According to The New York Times, about 50 employees now watch 2,430 regular season and up to 41 postseason baseball games as they occur, and digitally archive every play using hundreds of tags and descriptions to make searching this database as simple as a Google search. ...

Last winter, the NFL garnered attention for a growing and meaningful relationship between its players and video games. Athletes were no longer playing the games solely for relaxation (or to accumulate ridiculous stats with their personal avatars), but were relying on gaming for rehabilitation and training purposes. That video game evolution now applies to numerous other sports as well, including ...

If you're the type who thinks baseball is boring, just you wait for this weekend's match-ups (July 10th and 11th) between the Yankees and the Mariners on DirecTV. The games will be carried, by YES in the Northeast and FSN in the Northwest, in brilliant, magical, life-altering 3-D! Of course, you'll need one of those expensive 3-D TVs, and enough 3-D glasses to pass around to the entire family, ...

Here's evidence that you don't have to be speeding down a road in order to be severely injured by talking on your cell phone. This Yanks fan should just count himself lucky that this swing was a ground-rule double, and not a home run blast from A-Rod. Check out the video after the break to see why talking and balling is a dangerous, er, sport. [From: Deadspin] ...

It won't help the Pittsburgh Pirates win any baseball games, but, in an effort to quiet one critic, the team fired a pierogi. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Andrew Kurtz, who dons a pierogi costume and races other Eastern European dumplings around PNC Park during Pirates home games, was fired last week by Pirates brass for a disparaging comment he made about the team on his Facebook ...

Share What do you have to do to leave your mark on Major League Baseball's official site? You could hit your local batting cage, weight room, or Mexican pharmacy. Or, you could just flood the site's messageboards with porn, as a group of knuckleheaded knuckleballers recently did. Since July 2009, MLB's message boards have been flooded by dozens of "threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, ...

Share Few teams in professional sports history are as universally loathed as the New York Yankees. And with 27 World Series titles and a payroll that makes any mid-market franchise look like a farm team, it's easy to understand why. No matter what the Bronx Bombers do, they'll always face a healthy contingent of fans who despise them simply because of the pinstripes on their uniforms. Now, ...

America's favorite pastime will get a makeover later this summer, when Major League Baseball (MLB) broadcasts its first games in 3-D. According to MLB Fanhouse, the July 10th and 11th games between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners will be broadcast in 3-D by DirecTV, but only for viewers in the YES Network and Fox Sports Northwest network coverage area. If you don't have a 3-D TV ...

It's rare that a pitcher achieves a perfect game, where no opposing batter reaches base or scores. And since realism is the focus in sports video games these days, developer 2K Sports figured the feat would be just as tough to accomplish in its new 'Major League Baseball 2K10' game. That's why it offered a prize of $1 million to any gamer who could "throw" a perfect game between the game's March ...

Remember when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record in 1974, and received a pat on the back from two college students who stormed the field to circle the bases with him? It's still one of the most iconic images in sports. But if Hammerin' Hank broke the record in 2010, it's all but certain that those two kids would never make it anywhere near the slugger before getting tasered and subdued ...

For the first time ever, gamers will be able to stream live Major League Baseball (MLB) games on their Playstation 3 consoles. According to The New York Times, Sony announced Wednesday that it had reached a deal with MLB.TV to bring live baseball games to the PS3 -- the first such deal by any console manufacturer. For an annual fee, you can watch hundreds of out-of-market games as soon as the end ...