"When my household quit cable four years ago and I lost access to Seattle Mariners games on TV, I started streaming the radio broadcast on the Google Home speaker in my kitchen. Honestly? Baseball on the radio rules. You get to walk around and do stuff to the pleasant background sounds of the crowd. Sometimes you hear the crack of Cal Raleigh's bat hammering the ball into the stands one or 60 times. There's just one problem: spoilers."
"I use the MLB app for live scores, which is especially handy to complement an audio-only game. I don't have to wait for the announcer to get around to repeating how many outs there are; I can just glance at my phone. When I have to abandon my post by the radio, the notifications keep me up to speed on the game."
"You see, up until this year, there were exactly two legitimate ways to watch the Mariners live: subscribing to an expensive cable bundle or driving down to the corner of Dave Niehaus Way and Edgar Martinez Drive and buying a ticket to the game. Root Sports, the shadowy organization that controls the television broadcast rights to Mariners games, only introduced a standalone streaming option this April to the tune of $20 a month."
My household quit cable four years ago, so I stream Seattle Mariners radio broadcasts on a Google Home speaker. Baseball on the radio provides pleasant crowd sounds and freedom to move while following the game. Live-score notifications from the MLB app spoil plays because they arrive faster than the audio stream. Root Sports only recently launched a $20/month standalone streaming option, leaving radio as the practical no-subscription choice. Do Not Disturb and toggling notifications are impractical solutions. A desirable feature would be an app-controlled short delay for score notifications to prevent spoilers during audio listening.
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