The AthleticCan Cubs' Moisés Ballesteros use Triple-A reset to get back to being a productive bat?
Ride TheoryToday's #MinorLeague #baseball radio stream: listened to the Hudson Valley Renegades defeat the Brooklyn Cyclones 7-3 in the 1st game of a doubleheader. Decent play-by-play. Listened on my bike ride.
Funniest ad (celebrity voices impersonated)
CHONG (on phone): "You wanna come over and smoke some roaches, man?"
CHEECH: "I always wanna smoke some roaches!"
Of course, Cheech arrives to find Chong coughing because he's set off a bug bomb... "Call the professionals, man!"
Just learned how to find the direct URLs for I♥ and Audacy radio stations. So glad someone figured this out for me; I've had the very devil of a time trying to dig these out from the stations' source code. Much like the streams that come directly from #MinorLeague #baseball, they follow a filename convention that is easy to work with once you know it.
Still have to test the new stations at game time. Not today though -- there are no games on Mondays.
Ben! (Boo!)Now that I regularly watch baseball games I asked my best friend who I do sporting stuff with (usually racing) if he wanted to go check out a single-A Salem RidgeYaks (I do NOT know why they chose that for their new name this year...) game this summer which he was into.
I didn't know these were ad opportunities:
"Starting temperature brought to you by..."
"Stolen bases brought to you by..."
"Every strikeout this season brought to you by..."
"All walks this season brought to you by..."
I want to sponsor errors, wild pitches and bench-clearing brawls.
It's "Education Day" at Victory Field in Indianapolis for the Omaha Storm Chasers visiting the Indianapolis Indians, and the stands are filled with kids. Play-by-play announcer said it's "...it's an energetic and (PAUSE) high-pitched crowd..."
Listening to AAA #MinorLeague #baseball, Buffalo Bisons @ Lehigh Valley IronPigs. In the 3rd, Charles McAdoo hit a foul into the press box and broke the laptop used for the online play-by-play.
Tuned in briefly to a #MinorLeague #baseball broadcast. Broadcaster said, "...and this crowd is really worked up for those tacos..."
In the background, you could hear the fans chanting "TACOS! TACOS! TACOS!"
Today's #MinorLeague #Baseball score card -- the Hill City Howlers @ Delmarva Shorebirds. An absolute shellacking, Howlers win 17-1. I had a couple important phone calls to make and take in the middle and end, so I used Phil Rizzuto's famous WW (Wasn't Watching) in red, and partially filled those innings from the online p-b-p.
OMG, the Mavericks League is actually playing some /away games/ this season!
The league is a former #MinorLeague #baseball team, disenfranchised by #MLB in 2020, then reorganized as an independent, 4-team league by turning its alternative identities into separate teams. They've been playing all their games at the hilariously named "Roto-Rooter Park" in Keizer, and this year they're finally touring (not far) by using Spec Keene Park in downtown Salem.
