Help: MLB.TV vs Extra Innings?

by iamawesomer on Feb 10, 2009 12:40 PM EST

Clearly the best way to watch baseball is to just look at a pile of numbers of each game, don't all your guys' games look like this too?

00011101010VORP1011100010OPS+1000100BASEMENT1

Sometimes though, I like watching games visually. And this year, I'm a bit unsure on how I want to do it.

So does anyone have experience with both these products and have any advice? I've been an MLB.tv viewer the past few years but the quality has been crappy lately and I've been getting disconnects, which can be incredibly frustrating.

Extra Innings on the other hand would tie all my viewing to my TV and also I don't think has nifty things like updates when a given player is at bat (does it?) I realize a lot of this is probably going to come down to preferences on a personal level but wouldn't hurt to ask around.

Thanks for the help.

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EI doesn't show every game (maybe 5-6 /week per team), and you can't take it with you anywhere

I think mlbtv is vastly superior.

by JI on Feb 10, 2009 2:18 PM EST reply actions

What's nice about MLB.tv

Is that if you travel out of your local market that you subscribe in, you just have to call them up and have them do an IP validation and you can watch your games. I was able to watch the Cubs while in British Columbia, despite being billed to a Chicago address. MLB.tv gives you archives, audio and broadcast choices etc etc. And I don’t have to fight with my wife over TV time.

by Harry Pavlidis on Feb 10, 2009 2:48 PM EST reply actions

I my experence all blackout are based solely on your IP address

by JI on Feb 10, 2009 4:55 PM EST up reply actions

Yes, blackouts are based on your IP

The trap will be if you are on your company’s VPN while in a hotel room – it will pull that IP. Happens with me all of the time. However, that can work in your favor if you happen to be in a market where you can’t get the game on the hotel TV but you can get on the VPN and access it on mlb.tv

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by Jason Collette on Feb 13, 2009 1:15 PM EST up reply actions

ah

Well the system is pretty easy to game anyway

by JI on Feb 13, 2009 4:43 PM EST up reply actions

I'm the other way around

I have 1 computer and mlb.tv ties all my computer use to the game. I like EI so that I can watch the game and be on the computer. Plus, my monitor’s not nearly as good as my tv.

by chuckb on Feb 10, 2009 3:10 PM EST reply actions

I just open the game in wmp

and click always on top. That way I can use both at the same time.

by JI on Feb 10, 2009 4:56 PM EST up reply actions

maybe I'm an idiot

but I don’t even know what wmp is. Even if I did, though, my monitor’s much smaller than my tv

by chuckb on Feb 10, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions

Windows Media Player.

by R.J. Anderson on Feb 10, 2009 8:31 PM EST up reply actions

Get

both. EI is cool to watch at home on the big screen in HD, when you travel, MLB.tv is good. I have problems with the feed lagging on MLB…

by KenSr on Feb 10, 2009 3:14 PM EST reply actions

They have EI in HD?

by JI on Feb 10, 2009 4:56 PM EST up reply actions

yes

there are usually 1-2 games a day in HD. hoping there will be more this year.

by jfranco77 on Feb 23, 2009 10:26 AM EST up reply actions

I had experience with both last year.

MLB TV is nice, but unpleasent. Extra Innings is GREAT but expensive.

If you have the money, get EI. If not, MLB TV is better than nothing.

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by philkid3 on Feb 11, 2009 1:56 AM EST reply actions

I personally got gameday audio and watched gameday on the net.

Only $10 a season as long as you don’t mind hearing the game and only watching replays of homers on the gameday pitch by pitch. Not to mention they don’t sync up well perfectly. One cheap way to go.

by bornin82 on Feb 11, 2009 11:48 AM EST reply actions

Actually I think it $15. Still crazy cheap.

by bornin82 on Feb 11, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions

I am with borin here

I can “listen” be can’t stream video so i listen to a ton of games.

by Jeff Zimmerman on Feb 15, 2009 11:59 PM EST up reply actions

MLB.TV

Love it. My only problem is that I live in CT so I’m blacked out of Red Sox, Yankees and Mets games. I’m a Royals fan, so it doesn’t kill me, but at least a few times a season I get jacked up to watch the Royals/Yanks and then click on it and am blacked out and head to a bar to watch it. (Don’t own a TV…)

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by Billex Gordler on Feb 19, 2009 12:48 PM EST reply actions

I’m really thinking about getting Extra Innings this year… I think I’ll use my bowling league money on it at the end of bowling season

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by Cards Fan in Chitown on Feb 22, 2009 12:52 AM EST reply actions

EI

I’m a big fan of Extra Innings. Yankee fan living in Pittsburgh… while there might be problems for other markets having games on every day, it is VERY rare that the Yankee game is ever not on EI. Except when Fox is doing their Saturday games and all of the other day games are blacked out. I really hate that. If MLB.TV doesn’t have that problem, that’s a big plus.

Of course, my internet connection (DSL) kinda sucks, and isn’t really good enough for MLB.TV. Plus like chuckb I would rather watch TV and have the computer free. I can always use the computer to check on my fantasy players.

by jfranco77 on Feb 23, 2009 10:30 AM EST reply actions