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Baseball Coverage Coming To Consoles

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-blackout-the-tigers-please dept.

Gamasutra reports that "ESPN and MLB Advanced Media are extending their current digital rights agreement through 2013, and expanding it to allow Major League Baseball content delivery through video game console services. In addition to delivering live game streaming through ESPN properties ESPN360.com and ESPN Mobile TV, the cable television network's agreement expansion includes 'alternative platforms,' like Xbox Live via its Marketplace, along with other download services like the iTunes Store and portable devices like Microsoft's Zune." Further details for the rest of the digital rights agreement are also available.

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  1. On a limb by negRo_slim · · Score: 0, Troll

    i think coverage of the latest advancements in the arts and sciences or streaming lectures by insightful minds to be a cooler feature then some dudes hitting a ball with a stick.

    oh no he didint

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  2. More proof... by Codex_of_Wisdom · · Score: 0, Troll

    consoles are not for us nerds.

  3. do people still watch baseball? by DragonTHC · · Score: 0, Troll

    seems like a complete waste of time.

    seriously, if you like baseball so much go out and play it.

    gaming is for stuff you can't do in real life, not for people too lazy to do it.

    and yet strangely, it is.

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    They're using their grammar skills there.
    1. Re:do people still watch baseball? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      If you don't recognize that professional baseball being a multi-billion dollar industry must mean that people do watch baseball, then you're a fucking idiot. Step back from the keyboard and sort yourself out.

      But anyway, y'know I'm in a pretty healthy city of 250,000 and now that you mention it I can't just go out and hit a few with the kids. For one thing I'm not a kid, so I need to organize a fairly large group of people my size. But mainly where would we go? There aren't in fact any no-fee public access diamonds anymore. The few left in schoolyards are off-limits due to liability, and slamming a hard ball around is entirely unwelcome in the open space parks.

      Also real baseball doesn't have a pause, and is daylight and weather dependent. And, not insignificant at all, I don't make money when I've got a strained wrist or mild fracture. Recognizing that took a number of sports off my plate after 30. I particularly miss rock-climbing.