ST IGT Braves @ Mets 2/23

[Ceetar]

Zack Wheeler starts as the Braves head on over and get our Spring Training schedule going.

SNY/WOR and also Atlanta WIFN.

1:10pm from First Data field.

[Chad ochoseis]

I'm not getting it on MLB.tv. Not sure if that's because they're not carrying games this early or if they haven't yet autorenewed my subscription. But I can use a live baseball fix, even if it means I'm watching Phil Evans or someone tee off against #74 on the Braves.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is the game today? Or on the 23rd, as the title of this thread suggests?

[Chad ochoseis]

The 23rd. That would explain why MLB.tv isn't showing it today.

[Guest cooby]

Wow Chad, you are excited to watch a game lol

[Fman99]

My big 2018 no SNY experience will be kicking off this week. I'll be streaming via Reddit and using the Chromecast to push the game to one of two different TVs in my house (my 2nd Chromecast arrived today). It's a bunch of extra work but until MLB Extra Innings lifts the blackout rules, or SNY signs on with my provider, I don't have any recourse (I could theoretically subscribe to MLB EI and use a DNS anonymizer to hide my location, and evade the blackout rules, but between the two that'd cost me $200 this year, and the Reddit streams are free).

[Lefty Specialist]

Does MLB Extra Innings go by your IP address when you sign up or the IP address when you connect, for the blackout rule? And is it available overseas or US only?

Going to be doing some traveling this year and thinking about signing up.

oe: Duh. I'm actually asking about MLB.TV, not Extra Innings.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think MLB.tv is available in every country except Japan, if I remember correctly.

I've been meaning to test it when I'm traveling, but I've never remembered to do so. I was in the UK last summer, and I think I could have watched the Mets on the phone app, but with the time difference and the busyness of traveling, I never got to try it.

Since I live in the Philadelphia market, I can't see Phillies games on the app. I was in Boston two summers ago, and meant to try seeing if I could, while there, watch the Phillies and not the Red Sox, but again, I forgot to give it a try.

I expect, though, that that's what would have happened.

[Ceetar]

Fman99 wrote: My big 2018 no SNY experience will be kicking off this week. I'll be streaming via Reddit and using the Chromecast to push the game to one of two different TVs in my house (my 2nd Chromecast arrived today). It's a bunch of extra work but until MLB Extra Innings lifts the blackout rules, or SNY signs on with my provider, I don't have any recourse (I could theoretically subscribe to MLB EI and use a DNS anonymizer to hide my location, and evade the blackout rules, but between the two that'd cost me $200 this year, and the Reddit streams are free).

I don't recall, did you cut cable? If not, did you try the NBC Sports app streaming? Your cable company might not provide SNY but the app might think it does. Another alternative would be bribing someone that DOES and us their login for the NBC app.

[Chad ochoseis]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Does MLB Extra Innings go by your IP address when you sign up or the IP address when you connect, for the blackout rule? And is it available overseas or US only? Going to be doing some traveling this year and thinking about signing up. oe: Duh. I'm actually asking about MLB.TV, not Extra Innings.

It's based on where you connect which means that, ironically enough, I miss Mets games when I go back to the NYC area. I think I was able to see games when I was traveling in England and Iceland, but my memory's not clear on that.

[Lefty Specialist]

Thanks. I'll be in Missouri a lot as well as Europe for a bit. Don't mind if I miss Cardinals and Royals games.

Didn't know you could connect from Europe with no blackouts. That's kind of cool.

[Edgy MD]

1. Albies (??), 2b
2. Swanson, ss
3. Camargo, 3b
4. Ruiz, 1b
5. Adams, cf
6. Brantly, c
7. Santana, lf
8. Peterson, rf
9. Jackson, dh
   
   Wisler, sp

1. Brandon Nimmo, cf
2. Adrian Gonzalez, dh
3. Todd Frazier, 3b
4. Pete Alonso, 1b
5. Travis d'Arnaud, c
6. José Reyes, 2b
7. Amed Rosario, ss
8. Kevin Kaczmarski, rf
9. Matt den Dekker, lf
   
   Zack Wheeler, sp

BRAVES	METS

Apparently Dominic Smith was originally written into the lineup yesterday evening, but replaced by Alonso this morning.

[Guest cooby]

Hoping to listen in the car today!

[Ceetar]

goodbye lunch is gonna have me missing the start. sad.

[Edgy MD]

Wheelie is expectorated to be followed by some combination of Hansel Robles, Chris Flexen, Paul Sewald, Corey Oswalt, Jacob Rhame, Tyler Bashlor, Jamie Callahan, and/or Drew Smith.

[Ceetar]

game should be streamable if you were curious about such things.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Dom Smith out of the lineup for arriving late.

#SeeYouInSeptemberMaybe

[Benjamin Grimm]

Jeez.

Well, Mickey gets to start his managing career by sending a message. He is all about "accountability".

I hope Dom wasn't late because he stopped at a pizzeria.

[Guest cooby]

Edgy MD wrote: Wheelie is expectorated to be followed by some combination of Hansel Robles, Chris Flexen, Paul Sewald, Corey Oswalt, Jacob Rhame, Tyler Bashlor, Jamie Callahan, and/or Drew Smith.

Yeah I hope that's not the case for every game all season long (rolls eyes)

[Guest d'Kong76]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Dom Smith out of the lineup for arriving late.

Way to bust it out of the gate, Dom!

[Mex17]

d'Kong76 wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Dom Smith out of the lineup for arriving late. Way to bust it out of the gate, Dom!

I’m starting to think that the kid is not going to make it. I have heard plenty of other young players talk in interviews before, but I have never heard anyone sound quite as man childish as Smith.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He may have a bit of a speech impediment. I don't think that the words he says sound childish.

Hopefully this one lateness is an aberration, and one with a good explanation. It's obvious that he worked hard this offseason.

[Edgy MD]

Todd Frazier breaks the seal on the hit column for the 2018 Met Campers.

Mets, I am told, elected to wear the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hats for the game.

All of MLB (or at least all of the Florida teams) were supposedly wearing them for exercises today, but the Mets elected to wear them in the game, and I presume most other teams too.

I like these gestures, but I think they have far more impact when the different organizations act on their own.

[Guest d'Kong76]

TV booth is music to my ears, I'm such a Mets mush sometimes...

[Lefty Specialist]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Jeez. Well, Mickey gets to start his managing career by sending a message. He is all about "accountability". I hope Dom wasn't late because he stopped at a pizzeria.

This. Good on Callaway for showing who's boss. Dom, they're not going to hand it to you and Alonso's breathing down your neck. Focus.

[Edgy MD]

Hansel Rubble puts up an equal line to Wheeler. One inning, one hit, and two strikeouts. Looks like it's going to be another whiffy year.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[Ceetar]

this is fun. baseball. noises in my ear. broadcast. keith ron and gary being silly.

[Edgy MD]

Chris Flexie coughs up the unearned run with erratic help from den Dekker.

[Edgy MD]

Mets held scoreless through six, and here come the reserves.

Minor league camp floater Patrick Biondi takes over for Nimmo in center, David Thompson takes over for Frazier at third, Phillip Evans enjoys the benefits of arriving on time and takes over at first, and José Lóbaton straps on the catcher gear and makes his Mets debut.

Moreover, Gavin Cecchini displaces José Reyes at second, Luis Guillorme steps in for Amed Rosario at short, Zach Borenstein moves into Kazmarski's rightfield business and den Dekker is booted aside in left in favor of Ty Kelly.

Go, Team Israel!