Adjustment

A couple weeks ago the roomies and I decided to switch to basic cable. Basic cable. Cutting out the expanded (i.e. "anything good") cable and HBO/On Demand is saving us about $90/mo. For the most part I don't miss it at all - almost all shows are online in some form nowadays, either at sites like Hulu.com or the network sites - and I had already gotten used to watching everything on my MacBook. The lack of HBO and On Demand is a bit tougher to swallow, but there isn't really much new on HBO that I'm interested in (without The Sopranos and The Wire what's the point, really?). At dinner-time it's all local news; I do miss my CNN.

The big kick in the cubes will come this Monday with the advent of baseball season. No good cable means no NESN - which means no Sox. (I've already felt the pain with the lack of CSN to watch the Celts, but I've seen a lot of them this season already and it'll be playoff/bar time soon anyway.)

So I'm seriously considering getting MLB.tv. I will almost certainly try it out for a month at any rate. The radio's nice once in a while but I need to watch the kids. Looks like this evening they are broadcasting a free Sox-Mets exhibition game:



I'll probably check this out to evaluate the media player.

Anyone have any experience with MLB.tv?

Update: I checked it out in this evening's Sox @ Mets game and I'm loving it. Definitely getting it for the first month at least.