Baseball and the radio

ampersat · 10-22-2003, 07:49 PM

I discovered baseball this year. I'm an absolute novice at this outside of the basics. I know a few of the old names that are now more than a part of baseball history, they're a part of American history. But I'm not really up to speed on baseball today. I can't name the city that hosts some of these teams and I probably can't accurately identify a single player. I'm pretty into it though, at least through the Series. And I'm clueless about some of the finer points of tactics in the game. We'll have to see if it sticks next year. I'm not usually one to watch much in the way of sports.

Sure, I played as a kid but it was just something you did. Not everyone got into it and I wasn't really good at it (poor batting, wild throws, etc.). I had some good plays here and there but gave it up after mishandling three hoppers during tryouts (you don't want to know where they hit). :shocked:

So this year, I got sucked in at the playoffs. I've been watching as soon as I get home from work, but I get off from work late and usually spend a fair amount of time in traffic. So, off I go scrolling up the dial on the radio thinking surely good ol' American baseball will be on somewhere out there. FM was a bust of course but I was really surprised to find that not even old fashioned AM didn't have the game on.

I just can't conceive of this. The classic American image (besides actually being at the game or playing in it) is a couple of guys of whatever age, bent forward over a crackly radio listening to the play by play, hanging on every word. You can see by the looks on their faces that they've created the entire field in their minds and know exactly what is happening just by listening to the radio. Is there anything like the crack of the bat translated over the radio waves? Well, I guess I'll never know.

1pump · 10-22-2003, 07:57 PM

It's gotta be on the radio somewhere......I usually check the sports section to see what station has it, and at what time.

I was really looking forward to a Cubs/BoSox series. But noooooooo........we gotta watch the *******' Yankees.
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jocose · 10-22-2003, 09:03 PM

try am 910 or am 1520, i was listening to the beginning of tonights game on 910 and listened to a wild card game on 1520 earlier (1530.. ?) one of these should have the next game too.

Silver Hilton · 10-22-2003, 09:22 PM

anyone know if satellite radio (XM, Sirius) carries the world series games? I love to listen to games on the radio, but the stations that carry it fade out on the roads I drive.

Firedog · 10-22-2003, 09:24 PM

Should be on 910 am, it is better to listen to on the radio then to have to listen to Tim Macarver.

monoman · 10-22-2003, 10:20 PM

The "sphere of life" can get you. Radio is were baseball should be "watched".

Freakwater · 10-22-2003, 10:30 PM

910? I'll have to try it again. I swear I've scanned the dial a dozen times in the last 2 weeks.
I too thought that it was impossible not to have playoff baseball on AM.
I've been getting slowly hooked on MLB over the past 5 years. Hang out with someone who is ruined on it and it rubs off. Amazing the depth of statistics in this game.

Freak

Silver Hilton · 10-23-2003, 06:34 AM

I can't be bothered during the main season, but I will not willingly miss a playoff or series game, even when it is two teams that I couldn't care less about, such as the Spoiled Fish and the Loud and Obnoxious. Been that way for 30 years now.

jokester · 10-23-2003, 12:02 PM

AM 910 will have the games on! I've had to listen to a few of them coming home from work. I'd say try the station again when the game's on. They should be broadcasting it.

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jokester

foxer · 10-23-2003, 03:52 PM

am 1390 if you are south of portland

ampersat · 10-23-2003, 07:31 PM

i stand corrected: 910am did have the game on tonight. i must have missed it scanning the dial because they cut to commercials at the drop of a hat (and sometimes they knock the hat out of whoever's hand). anyway, it was great listening to the game on my way home. just wish i could've heard a "crack".