But I can imagine this taking place, sounds a lot like the talking heads on ESPN, well, Harold Reynolds is a former ESPN talking head.

Al Leiter did something similar to Griffey, signing with the Marlins in 2005 as a veteran in the rotation, in hopes he would be a mentor to Beckett, Burnett, and Willis. He tanked and was put on waivers by mid season and claimed by the Yankees, and later failed even more. He retired afterwards.

Unless Felix and Ichiro/Beltre are gone without me knowing about it.

Little insight and lots of old school, traditional thinking. Moderately articulate men who are well versed in baseball’s conventional wisdom and regurgitate it on cue.

I mean really, it’s basically just a longer version of what the mlb.com segments bring you. Just with historical games, some games during the season, and I imagine extensive draft coverage.

It was foolish to expect anything more right now.

During the season, if we’re watching upteen baseball games and getting some interesting tidbits from the industry, I’d call it worth it.

…for posting this. We had to get rid of our cable because I lost my job a month ago, and I was wondering if the network was any good. I’m still curious to see it myself, but it’s good to see someone’s first impression of it, as well, since mlb.com is only going to talk about how great it is…

because you’ll never get it. They’re not in the business of expanding people’s knowledge and presenting things in different ways – they’re in the business of selling baseball to the masses. And they do that pretty damn well.

I wasn’t expecting anything but the regular fiddle faddle fodder. Why would you? You know the guys who are involved. What’s exciting is the content, the replayed games, the live look-ins – I don’t know who or why anyone would go to TV for analysis anyways when we can get an infinite amount in more detail from more knowledgeable heads right here on the internet.

The Derek Lowe conversation they had on Hot Stove was interesting. They were trying to figure out why it is Lowe could ask for 16 million when he’s clearly not a #1 starter. Hell, Mitch Williams even mentioned he was a pitch to contact type pitcher and how those pitchers aren’t as “good” as power (strikeout) pitchers. They were calling him a near #2 pitcher or a good #3 pitcher and certainly not worth 16 million a year. I was somewhat impressed at the candid commentary.

It didn’t last the entire time, but at least someone was calling a spade a spade.

Assuming it is; the picture quality on standard definition, like JI said, is still very good. And will it air regular season and/or postseason games? Live, I mean, not replays.

I didn’t expect in depth coverage, I was just bored happened to flip to MLB Network to see if I get it (considering I had just scaled my DirecTV package back a lot) and since they were discussing the AL West I kept watching.

I’m sure I’ll probably end up flipping to it a lot when I’m too lazy to find anything else to do, since shitty baseball coverage is better than no baseball coverage…