As a “thank you” for voting online for the All-Star game, MLB gave me a free 10-day subscription to MLB.tv Premium, which allows you to watch the local coverage of all out-of-market games live (and in-market games 90 minutes after they end). I knew going in that it was just a ploy to suck me in and convince me that I couldn’t live without it and thus spring the money for the rest of the season.
It totally worked.
This is not to say that it’s for every one — Red Sox fans who live in Boston and Twins fans who live in Minnesota should probably skip it. But if your favorite team is out-of-market, it’s worth it. How else would have been able to watch the Twins take 3 out of 4 in Chicago this weekend?
Also, I recently left North America for the first time in my life. Some nice Irish guys told me all about rounders, which was a pre-cursor to baseball. They have the same Sandlot style stories about hitting balls into neighbors yards that Americans have. And then there was this…
The walrus is me!
Jul19
Colossus of Rhode 
bloody tourist…
Well! here comes the sun!
As I clicked up to the page almost immediately the pic looked familiar but, sheesh, without the text it might have taken this old and truly grey matter a bit longer to say “Aha!”
Leave it to the foo to take notice!
You probably knew this, but one can imagine that you are in their archives somewhere…
http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/