NYT: PS3 to stream live Major League Baseball games

hell I'd even buy a ps3

Hell yeah!

Everyone knows hockey is a real man's sport!

yea any sport where you can punch someone in the face without catching a charge or large fine is good shit!!! They Need to teach Gilbert Arenas how to ice skate

I SO AGREE! As a HUGE hockey fan I would love to see NHL on my PS3.

I have been using atdhe.net for any sporting event that isnt being broadcast on TV in my area. I would gladly pay for an HD stream of Detroit Redwing games.

Thats what i was thinking. The only thing i need cable for is hockey everything else i can get online.

Hockey as well as football would both be awesome!

I super agree, and if it is a success I am sure other sport organizations will jump on the band wagon!

As is every major sport that decides its champion with a series and not a single game. Doesn't mean they're dying. Pretty sure you'll die before baseball does, I'm just saying.

Great feature. Definitely adds to the attractiveness of the Playstation 3.

They cruised through the economic recession the last few years, setting viewing records in both the past two years. Baseball is getting huge.

MLB is easily the number 2 sport in the country and it shows your ignorance to say that the NBA is above MLB. When the Lakers vs. Celtics final happen two years ago they were happy because the ratings were great. The series averaged about 14 million viewers. Last year's world series averaged around 20 million viewers. And the Philadelphia Phillies aren't even a team with a large national following. Just because where you live baseball isn't popular doesn't make it so. And look at the NBA ratings when it's the Spurs vs. Cavs and Mavericks vs. Heat from a couple of years ago the ratings were the lowest of all time for the Spurs vs. Cavs and that included Mr. Lebron James the most popular basketball player in the league. So check your facts. No series game for MLB, NBA, or NHL will ever top the super bowl because it's ONE DAY and ONE GAME. Not only that but every other channel does not schedule any programming to go against it. Super bowl Sunday is basically a holiday in the United States and people who have no idea who's playing watches it just to see commercials. And I"m a huge NFL fan but their popularity has a lot to do with gambling. So many people gamble on the games it makes me sick. You listen to sports talk and that's all they care about is the betting line. At least in baseball, basketball, and hockey you actually get people who care about the teams playing and not just making money.

Because watching baseball on the TV is boring. Apparently most Americans agree.

Right, this was meant in response to Sones. Silly comment system.

most Americans agree the NFL, NHL, NBA, and Soccer are boring too.

show me one sport that has the attention of 51% of the population here?

I agree also. As an MLB.TV subcriber that is still waiting support for the Roku box, this is GREAT news.

SONY KILLS IT WITH THIS ADDITION!

LETS GO DODGERS!

Well that's something you don't even have to worry about,
it's ps3 exclusive ;)

uhhh not even comparable.....24 hour Sports access=/= Game channel programming.

Not to mention if you dont already like baseball or already have the service you most likely won't get it...

Stop trying to start a flame war....

uhhh not even comparable.....24 hour Sports access=/= Game channel programming.

Not to mention if you dont already like baseball or already have the service you most likely won't get it...

Stop trying to start a flame war...

someone teach this guy how to use the reply button

is that true? local games are still blacked out?

Hence the term "local." It's on TV,

Yep very true and I don't see why this would change with a PS3 client (that's all it is at the end of the day, they have a PC/Mac client, iPhone/iPad client and now a PS3 client -- to the same service)

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp

Scroll to the fine print to read the blackout restrictions.

Yeah it sucks. If a game is on tv in your area it's not on MLB.tv. Kind of defeats the purpose since they have an iphone app that can stream the games. Maybe I'm out and about and want to watch the game on my phone?

or maybe you just want all of the little extras stats that are available on MLB.tv

Or maybe you don't want to subscribe to $100 a month cable service just to catch a few games here and there. Seriously, more than half the games are not "locally" televised.

yeah a dollar a game would be great. I bet they'd make more money too.

It's $1 per game on the iPhone and, I believe, the iPad. Not a bad model.

My guess is that it will be a dedicated app. Some of the other regions already have TV services. For example, the UK has a BBC TV icon on their dash in the videos section.

Ditto. Absolutely pointless for most fans who just want to watch THEIR team play on the occasion where they can't sit in front of the TV and watch it.

I might sign up for it. I was always interested but I don't want to sit in front of my computer to watch a game.