Beau Anthony Frusetta » Baseball http://beau.frusetta.com Personal blog and random ramblings of Beau Anthony Frusetta Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:17:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc AZ Diamondbacks with the Family http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/09/09/az-diamondbacks-with-the-family/ http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/09/09/az-diamondbacks-with-the-family/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:24:29 +0000 Beau Frusetta http://beau.frusetta.com/?p=416 Headed out to Chase Stadium last night with the kiddos, their mom, and her fiance for a night of baseball with the family – yes, family – we have a well adjusted divorced family structure. :-)

Click on the picture or the link below it to view all the pics.

View the full set of AZ Diamondbacks vs. LA Dodgers on Flickr

]]> http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/09/09/az-diamondbacks-with-the-family/feed/ 0 Manny…sure…but Big Papi…WTF??? http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/07/30/manny-sure-but-big-papi-wtf/ http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/07/30/manny-sure-but-big-papi-wtf/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:26:50 +0000 Beau Frusetta http://beau.frusetta.com/?p=373 eticket_g_manny17_850Great, more names to tarnish MLB history.  The New York Times is reporting that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz are said to be on the list of MLB players that tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003.  Both heavy hitters, and both contributed to the Red Sox 86 year Championship drought…what now?  I can see Manny being on the list…duh…but Ortiz?  C’mon…Big Papi???  Say it ain’t so!

Of course it’s the New York Times that’s reporting this – I’m sure there are plenty of Sox haters working there, but still…news like this doesn’t look well on the famous come back of the Red Sox to pull through “the curse” and get 2 World Series Championships in 4 years after an 86 year slump.

Read the full article on NYTimes.com

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To be perfectly honest, this blog post has been sitting in my drafts section for a few months.  I wanted to start this post about people bitching about the MLB.tv service, but I think I had this little voice in my head that told me to just give it some time, enjoy my already stellar experience, and see where it goes from there.

The journey to MLB.tv started late in the season last year when I wanted to be able to stream the playoff games from whatever office I may of been working out of that day, however, I forgot to read the fine print that stated all live playoff games were blacked out, but an archive copy of the game would be available AFTER the game…meh.  Small fail for me…but that seems to be some what of a daily occurence as I get older. :-)

So fast forward a few months, and I start poking around and seeing if I could find ANYTHING on the internet about MLB.tv offering live games streaming in HD…I couldn’t find anything.  So I went to the social channels, sent out a msg on Twitter, and oddly, my friend Nicole of all people responded to me on Facebook (my Twitter feed goes through to Facebook as well).  She said that she knew all the MLB.tv guys from when she lived in New York for a few years and she immediately got on her IM, asked if they were going to be offering streaming HD content for 2009, and they said yes!

The power of social media is awesome!

So anyway, when it came time to roll out streaming HD over the internet from MLB.tv, I was on it like white on rice with my credit card in hand!  Its roughly $20/month for me to be able to watch ALL of the Red Sox games live in HD…ummm…yeah…IN!

When I signed up, the player was still in “beta” mode with some limited functionality, but it worked well for a beta…not gonna lie.  There were some issues with the “NextDef” java based plug-in initially, for many users, but as far as I can tell, those issues are gone.  The player itself is all Flash based, and has some really cool options.  You can literally use it as a DVR with an unlimited amount of space to store ALL games ALL season long…in HD!  Its like a media mecca for any diehard baseball fan.

We are a few months in to the MLB season now, and I’m still watching my HD stream every chance I can get.  The picture quality isn’t perfect all the time, but this is new technology, and since I’m REALLY in to new tech (oddly I’m writing this blog post on my PC that’s connected to my 46″ Samsung LCD TV), I can pretty much “go with the flow” when it comes to bumps in the road when new technologies roll out.

Kudos to the MLB.tv crew…you guys are doing a great job…love the service…keep pushing forward!  And, if you are a die hard baseball fan, and your team isn’t within your local market, do yourself a favor and get the service already…no…seriously…get it, and if you do get it, and don’t like it, come back and tell me why…maybe we can get some group collaboration together and get some new features packed in for the 2010 season!

]]> http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/05/28/2009-mlbtv-streaming-hd-baseball-ftw/feed/ 0 Excitement is brewing – baseball season is almost here!!! http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/02/18/excitement-is-brewing-baseball-season-is-almost-here/ http://beau.frusetta.com/2009/02/18/excitement-is-brewing-baseball-season-is-almost-here/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:26:05 +0000 Beau Frusetta http://beau.frusetta.com/?p=241 Whether you are a Boston Red Sox Fan, a New York Yankess fan (go A-Roid!!!), an Arizona Diamondbacks fan, or  a Chicago Cubs fan…you know that spring training starts in a matter of days!

This time of the year absolutely sucks – football season finished up a few weeks ago, and ugh…basketball is the only effin sport that seems to be crowding the available spots on all the sports channels.  I’m not a huge basketball fan…I just couldn’t get back to it after the Suns let me down for so many years (*cough*93 Finals*cough*) – I can only take one team in AZ to let me down for so many years and still stick with it…my Cardinals…the 2008 NFC Champions… :-)

So here we go…another year of MLB baseball…who do you think is heading to the World Series this year?  Even though I’m a huge Red Sox fan, I hope the divisions are all battling it out again this year like they were last year – that makes for one hell of a season!

Oh…and go Red Sox!!!  Papi is back…slim and trim…

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