SB Nation User Blog: MillsChC

ESPN.com's TV Listings Page

MillsChC — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:08:04 -0000

ESPN.com's TV Listings Page

For those of you without CSN access, you're in luck. According to ESPN.com's TV Listings page for April 6th, does list that the Cubs/Astros' season opener will be broadcast on ESPN2 at 6pm CST.

MLB Extra Innings will most likely be doing a free preview that week anyway, so if you've got digital cable or satellite, then you possibly may get to see the Len & Bob version as well (provided they continue showing both the home & away feeds that they started doing at the tail-end of last season)

Vaguely OT: Slingbox??

MillsChC — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:03:41 -0000

Been looking into getting a Slingbox PRO to watch Cubs games from work.... so my questions to those who have it:

1) Do you have any difficulty logging into whatever account it is on the internet that you log into to view your home TV? Do you get what would be the equivalent of "Server busy" messages often, sometimes, rarely, or never?

2) What is the video/audio quality like? YouTube quality, MLB.TV 400K, 800K, or 1.2 (whenever 1.2 is working like it should)?

3) Do you really have full DVR function capability over the internet (like promised in all the advertisements)? In other words, if I'm at work (which has full broadband access) and record a Cubs game at 7pm on my home DVR..... will I be really be able to access and watch the game from my DVR via Slingbox over the Internet at work at say 12 or 1 am later that night?

Big thanks to any answers you guys can provide....

Another Dusty-led team bats out of order

MillsChC — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:56:09 -0000

David Ross batted when it was Corey's turn. Corey was called out after Ross lined out. Ross then got to bat again & singled.

But here's the proof that Dusty has completely blocked out his tenure with the Cubs.

Baker said his only other experience with a team batting out of order came when he was a player and he was the one who hit when he wasn't supposed to. When he came up the second time, he hit a three-run homer.

Ummm.... Dusty? The same thing happened just 4 years ago, back in 2004.... and you went ballistic on C.B. Bucknor. How could you forget that one?

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More MLB.tv problems...

MillsChC — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:28:01 -0000

Anybody know how to fix this problem?

With the old MLB.tv player last year and all through spring-training this year, if I made it full-screen, it would use every inch of my monitor, truly making it "full-screen". Even though I click on "Use the original MLB Media Player" (not the Silverlight one), it now looks to be using an updated version of Windows Media Player. With this version when I click on full-screen mode, it still leaves a black border about 2" wide on top and bottom and about 3" wide on the left and right around the video image.

I have a 17" widescreen laptop monitor, and I've tried every resolution setting to try to make it "truly full-screen" without the black borders...but without any luck.

One other thing, the 5-min archive rule, doesn't seem to be active, cause I watched Saturday's entire game from the archive during the evening tonight. So that's some good news I guess.