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Squelch A Little High

I’m in my sec­ond sea­son of lis­ten­ing to the Red Sox base­ball game on the Inter­net. Some­thing changed this year, the WEEI broad­cast I get from MLB.com has got annoy­ing sound gaps. Spots of silence between the calls from the announc­ers. When they are speak­ing, you hear them and the mur­mur of the crowd in the back­ground, when they stop, noth­ing. It is very dis­con­cert­ing. I wrote to the radio sta­tion via their con­tacts page:
As a trans­planted New Eng­lan­der and life­long Red Sox fan imag­ine how over­joyed I was to real­ize I could lis­ten to the Sox on the radio via the Inter­net. I lis­tened to prac­ti­cally every game last year once I dis­cov­ered Game­day Audio at MLB.com.

I signed up again this year too. But what the heck is wrong with your broad­cast on MLB.com this year. It sounds like it is break­ing up. The abrupt silences are annoy­ing. Did you go to voice acti­vated mikes or some­thing? It is not my con­nec­tion (I have cable Inter­net) as I can lis­ten to any other game and their broad­casts are fine. I have taken to lis­ten­ing to the Red Sox games using the vis­it­ing clubs radio stations.

Try and imag­ine the pain, as tonight I an lis­ten­ing to WCBS…

Their response came quickly:
You’ll have to deal with MLB on that. We pro­vide them with a clean feed. What they do with it, to be hon­est, we have no idea.

I think there is an email address on their web­site to con­tact them with regards to prob­lems like this.

I appre­ci­ate your inter­est and am sorry you haven’t got­ten the qual­ity you’re look­ing for.

So to play the game, I wrote to MLB.com via their con­tact page. I quoted both the above emails and added more descrip­tions of my attempts to test and solve this on my own. When I hit sub­mit, the screen flashed and I was right back on the con­tacts page with all the entry boxes blank. I won­der if they got my mis­sive? I didn’t get directed to a con­for­ma­tion page…I’ll keep you posted.

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April 15th, 2005 | Tags: , | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

2 comments to Squelch A Little High

  • isoxny
    Monday, April 25, 2005 at 7:34 pm

    I agree whole­heart­edly. This is ruin­ing the expe­ri­ence of lis­ten­ing to base­ball on the inter­net. I also wrote a note to MLB and have not received a response…it makes me sea­sick to lis­ten to Troupe and Cas­tiglione like this…can’t they at least fake some back­ground crowd noise between the words…anything to make this less jarring?

  • Brian the Red
    Monday, April 25, 2005 at 7:41 pm

    I never did hear from MLB.com. I guess they didn’t get my con­tact sub­mis­sion. I’ll try again. I did try MLB.com’s phone num­ber the other day, but gave up after 10 min­utes on hold.