MLB Gameday -- An Abomination: So here I am, a big rich rock star editor, right? So I finally cave in to the top-hat/monocle luxury of buying Major League Baseball's "Gameday" video program, for like $114 a year, so that I can watch an inning or two of Angel games on the computer before going to bed at night. No sweat, right?

Christ. They make you download a bunch of crap -- Silverchair, I think it is? Plus various Flash/Adobe nightmares -- then none of it works, then you uninstall, then you scream bloody murder loud enough that even your baseball-hating (but amazingly tolerant!) French wife comes over and performs complicated computer tasks ... several times over. After the you'll-never-get-it-back time-wasting, the video stuff looks like claymation, with stop-start images catching up every five seconds or so, a full half-minute behind the audio. It's terrible, terrible. So then, after becoming so frustrated with something so insignificant you decide to punt the video component altogether just to hear the radio broadcast (the $14.99 option) ... it drops out randomly at important times, like, say, the 7th inning of the Red Sox game.

Anyway, this is a pointless complaint in the scheme of things, but on the odd chance anyone else has been having this problem, or that the fucktards who run MLB do some Google-surfing on their shitty product, I submit this whine for the Permanent Record.

04/23/2008 06:00 PM  |  Comment (8)

Hi! What are you doing down here?