Yea but their blackout restrictions are a headache for so many. I've gotten around it with proxy servers but occasionally that doesn't even work. (like today) and I can't watch the game.
Possible blessing in disguise with the long extra innings.....who would have thought Dave Borkowski could come in and give us 4 shutout innings in the clutch? If he can show anything close to that from here on out, I'd move him in front of Springer and Gallo in our pen pecking order. (I'd release Gallo outright, but that's just me) DB did what relief pitchers need to do: he threw strikes and kept the ball down (note to BL on that one). Speaking of Lights Out, his situation is becoming more concerning by the game. The leadoff 4 pitch walk in the 9th to a scrub who's barely had any AB's all year is inexcusable. He can say it's not in his head, but that was a brain fart right there. All pitchers know this......leadoff walks turn into big innings, especially when the guy who walks doesn't have a hit all year. Lots of holes with this team (who doesn't), but the bottom line is 14-6 is still a hell of a start. It would be nice to get a win tomorrow cause after that it's off to Cini next and they're smokin too.
Borkowski had the Dodgers on Polack-down!! Er... Po-Lockdown! Hm. Can't decide which spelling is funnier. Either way he was just what the doctor ordered. What can you say about Lidge. Sheesh. Not a lot of options right now but to do whatever we can to fix him. At least the Astros don't play a lot of one-run games. *cough*
Someone told me that Everett got into an arguement with the Dodgers catcher at the end of game 1 of this series. Is that true? If so I definitely think that both pitches were intentional. The first time he's up a pitch is at his head, and the second he gets hit in the wrist. The Astros look like chumps for not retaliating.
I've been thinking about this blackout thing and I was wondering if anyone understands it at all. The reason I ask is that I am in San Diego, roughly 60-70 miles south of Los Angeles, and I have been able to watch the LA-Houston games this week no problem at all. If I can see LA games and I am only 70 miles away, then why in the world would people in Dallas have Houston games blacked out? Doesn't make sense to me at all.
Wait, have they changed the rules? Last year I could not watch the games in the USA, I could only watch them if I was out of the country. DD
might be because the Rangers have the rights to the market up there Ranger games are usually blacked out here, as well as other MLB games, unless they are on ESPN
I think that is Josh's point. Why would he be able to see Dodger games in SD? Shouldn't they be blacked out with the Padres having the rights to broadcasts. Why are Stros games blocked in Austin when the distance is more than it is from LA to SD?
I believe each MLB club is assigned certain territories. My best friend lives in the Valley, and he can get all the Stros games down there, but not Ranger games. So I could only assume that the Austin market is assigned to the Rangers and the valley market is assigned to the Stros. For Rocket games, he never gets Rocket games on FSSW, but gets all the Spurs games.
and actually ...come to think of it .....I haven't noticed any Ranger games being blacked out on FSSW main channel this season, but they have been on the ALTs ..........hmmmm
Hadn't heard that. Unless it's blatant headhunting, most teams will find out if it was intentional (players on the other team will pretty much tell them why they did it & will expect/understand that somebody will get dotted in return), file it away & take care of it later in the season. "Chumps"? Hardly. LaRussa - maybe in his book, maybe in an interview/article, can't remember - pretty much laid out the innerworkings of the intentional beanball in the majors. Very interesting stuff.
heres an interestling link with the blackout areas of each MLB team: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/astrodirt/discussion/danwerr_2003-05-13_0/
Astros game aren't blacked out here in Austin. We get both the Rangers and Astros. The Spurs will preempt them both on FoxSports, and if both teams are playing on Fox Sports, they mix it up, but between three stations (23, 54, and 77 on Time Warner), we probably get about 120+ Astros games a year.
