Baseball Musings: Bloopers

October 18, 2008

Bloopers

Is anyone else seeing a blooper show on TBS right now instead of the pre-game show?

Update: I just talked to DirecTV and it does not appear to be a DirecTV problem. I take it people who have cable can't see the game either?

Update: The game isn't being broadcast, but starts anyway. Coco Crisp bunt singles but gets picked off, and the Red Sox fail to score in the first. I can't believe they didn't delay the start of the game until the problem was fixed.

Update: It appears Upton took Beckett deep in the bottom of the first. The Red Sox radio announcers just said that the catwalk kept it from going 20 rows back.

Update: They're scrolling a message now saying to stand by for the game.

Update: I see the game at 8:28 PM EDT.

Update: They showed the Upton home run. It hit the catwalk and landed in fair territory, but that ball is gone according to the ground rules. Beckett has now allowed six home runs this post season, and Upton has hit six. The Rays lead 1-0 after one inning.

Update: One of the comments indicates a power outage in Atlanta as the cause of the problem. Amazing. ESPN put in a backup generator in the mid 1990s.

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Comments

Yes.... I'm getting a little nervous here. The digital cable guide now says, instead of "MLB Baseball" :
8 - 8:30 : mlb postgame
8:30 -----: To Be Announced

Posted by: nate at October 18, 2008 08:02 PM

WTF?!? Is Dick Clark pitching in lieu of Beckett? BTW, I am in DC....

Posted by: JE at October 18, 2008 08:03 PM

UGGGGH! Steve Harvey Show?

Posted by: MH at October 18, 2008 08:06 PM

This is TOO bizarre. The Bloopers show is over and now I see Cedric the Entertainer and hear a laugh track.... Please tell me what the f-ck is going on here!!!

Posted by: JE at October 18, 2008 08:06 PM

We are watching Bloopers in Texas as well. TBS just cut out tin the middle of a stat graphic.

Posted by: JC at October 18, 2008 08:06 PM

Saw a marquee go across saying they are having "technical difficulties"....

Can't find anything on the TBS website.

Posted by: nate at October 18, 2008 08:08 PM

No game in New York also. It's on radio, though.

Posted by: MBD at October 18, 2008 08:11 PM

dale on radio said tbs lost power in atlanta. ha! this is pretty much the biggest night of tv for TBS all year.

Posted by: billy mueller at October 18, 2008 08:12 PM

How in the hell does TBS not have a generator on prem?

Posted by: Hollinger at October 18, 2008 08:14 PM

This is the second time TBS has dissappeared in Houston during the playoffs. The first time the the HD and regular feed channels both went black for an entire night all over the city. Not sure if the problem was on TBS's end or Comcast's. Either way, this is INFURIATING!

Posted by: MH at October 18, 2008 08:16 PM

Technical Difficulties.

spittingseeds.blogspot.com

Unreal!

Posted by: Spitting Seeds at October 18, 2008 08:16 PM

live feed here: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_tpl_3_1.jsp?v=2&id=868684&url=reflector%3A38315&gid=2008_10_18_tbamlb_bosmlb_1&vid=tbs&header=tbs&panel=1&mid=200809253550049

Posted by: billy mueller at October 18, 2008 08:16 PM

Sorry, I screwed up that post... wrong things in wrong fields.

TBS has techincal difficutlies. MLB has a feed up, so you're OK there, if you can see it.

Posted by: Spitting Seeds at October 18, 2008 08:20 PM

dale states umps might be increasing time between innings to slow things down a bit till tv comes back

Posted by: billy mueller at October 18, 2008 08:20 PM

SAME THING IN LA AREA NO BASEBALL - STEVE HARVEY??!!!??

Posted by: Cba4 at October 18, 2008 08:20 PM

I feel ambivalent over the outage. One the one hand, I can't watch the game. On the other, no Chip Caray.

Overall, I think we came out ahead.

Posted by: JC at October 18, 2008 08:24 PM

It is UNFATHOMABLE that the start of the game wasn't delayed. What is Bud thinking?!? (I could understand not stopping a game if the technical screw-up had transpired DURING the game, like what happened during the Turkey-Germany EuroCup match.)

Posted by: JE at October 18, 2008 08:24 PM

No it is not on anywhere there is a lame ass re-run of a show that nobody wanted to watch the first time around. They are claiming techinal difficulties. Hey it just came on guess they woke up and realized it was game time and they should have thrown the switch a half hour ago. Why would MLB trust TBS with games that are this important?

Posted by: emains at October 18, 2008 08:32 PM

I am PISSED...what's happening? where the hell is the game?

Posted by: pamela at October 18, 2008 08:33 PM

"You didn't miss much."
-- Chip Carey, coming back from commercial, top of the second

Posted by: Josh at October 18, 2008 08:34 PM