All Activity

Now that the Wings are done (maybe some Pistons playoff games will be broadcast there), what is the station doing? I wonder if they can steal some Mudhens games. They showed a few Erie Seawolves games at the end of last season which was pretty cool. It has to be gone off a lot of our cable packages within the next month or so.

Went home and split my work shift to watch the second half of the game. Glad I did. Fun one to watch.

They’re good enough, they’re smart enough, and gosh darn it we like them… for the most part…

This fits here. A buddy of mine told me today he took his car to the dealer for routine maintenance. Oil change, tire rotation, inspection, the normal X you pay for the checkup. They couldn't get his tires off without ruining the lugnuts so they had to replace them. $322 for those fine little puppies - all 20 of them I think - if it has 5 nuts per wheel. That's a quick $16 buck a nut. That's ****ing NUTS! Pun intended. 🙂 An automotive lugnut is made by cold forming a round piece of steel by force and spit them out by the hundreds or thousands per hour. Probably cost the car companies pennies each. They ship in bins by truck from satellite suppliers to the automakers. And sometimes they do a secondary operation. What is happening here; marketing decided they need really nice chrome lugnuts to look pretty, so they stamped a chrome plated cover over the cold formed nut since it's grey and ugly. Over time, the cover expands, and the guy in the dealership can't get a socket and air wrench on the lugnuts to get them off. Really dumb idea, but they did it anyway. Another case where marketing overruled sound design and engineering and the customer eats the cost of their greed, stupidity, or both.

They may never lose again.

there is a lot of money at work in Virginia. The Yes vote leads the polling but you have to worry if the assault weapon stuff might bring the crazies out to register a protest.

Clemente vs Lolich 71 ASG Tiger Stadium Can someone tell me how to embed tweets? https://x.com/BBGreatMoments/status/2044900642548801566?s=20

****in A! This is all nuts. Markets at all time high while the world burns and the observers don't know rather to **** or get off the pot.

It might rain earlier in the day, but at game time it’s supposed to be cloudy and in the low 50° range. So this game is doable.

Mize vs Suarez

If we keep that up, we’re 90 win team.

we are now a winning team again.

Chasfh - Yes, I *do* absolutely believe that the radio broadcast has done time compression/expansion to lengthen the commercial breaks in the past, but I do not know if they are doing it now because I haven't checked this season at all. There have certainly been times when I've had MLB audio going with the gameday cartoon or even the video broadcast that I had previously synced and the cartoon has made a pitch or two or the video returns before Dan comes back, and then magically the radio catches up. Using the gameday cartoon is not really definitive proof since we know that has random buffering or entry glitches all the time, but I've seen enough in the past to be reasonably persuaded that on the audio side they are playing games in the time domain. IIRC I even stop watched the radio breaks and they where exceeding 2min at innings when they should not have. I had forgotten about that in the earlier discussion - since as I noted, I don't have enough of an issue with the current videocast to be doing what you are doing anymore. That makes me wonder if they only do it on the audio fed to web-stream, or if it's in the OTA source as well?. I suppose if it's the same commercial grid it must be in the original broadcast, but I don't know for a fact if the commercials OTA are the same as in the stream feed. It's a huge temptation since with digital audio It's trivially easy to speed up or slow down audio while holding the frequency distribution perfectly constant or just slicing silence, making it very hard to detect by ear.

Well, of course.

I like her too and I dislike most politicians.

He is a doctor. The patient has Covid. That is why he's shining a light up his nose.

For me it was that the streaming audio was behind enough that I could pause the directv feed via the built in DVR by a second or so. I couldn’t use the radio because that was far ahead of the satellite feed. But the streaking audio was a different story and allowed for easier “pause-play” on my direct remote until it matched.

If there's anything to your theory about the difficulty engineers have matching audio overlay to MLB video, it would be that before I got MLB.tv with my Extra Innings package, and I would try to do what you describe here—match MLB At-Bat radio to DirecTV video—frequently when it came out of breaks, At-Bat would be mismatched to the video by a few seconds one way or the other. I assumed it was because sometimes play would start up again sooner than expected, so the radio folks would hold up the feed this inning to allow the commercials to play all the way through, then eventually they would match it up in a later inning. Is that what's happening here? Given how MLB has the break timed to end earlier than before, but the commercials still have to run, and Dan usually doesn't even come back on after the break until after at least one pitch has already been thrown, I kind of doubt it. But, I don't know, maybe ...

I used to listen to Dan on Gameday when I watched on DirectTV because because I really didn't like Shep - and I could adjust gameday until it matched. But I had to stop doing that and now I don't remember if it was because gameday started being *behind* the video, which there was no adjustment for, or if it was just because they dropped the adjustment tab from the interface - I'd have to try setting up again during a game to check which it was. In any case my direct TV is always way behind, usually 2 pitches behind the gameday cartoon, which itself is usually behind OTA radio, which traditionally had at least a couple of seconds of delay for bleeping things they wanted to bleep.

This seems like an early attempt to sanewash Trump and the Republicans ahead of the election.

I would rather see a team there than in the cluster blank of Salt Lake City - not that I have anything against the city or it’s inhabitants in general - but the altitude and everything will make it another weird version of Denver and Coors Field and the very idea of that just annoys me. Indianapolis would not be straying too far away from baseball as I generally know it.