Opposite Of A "Money Waster"

For weeks, I have been telling all of you about products to avoid wasting money on. Now I would like to inform you all about a product that is the opposite of a money waster as it is in fact a bargain. The one product in the sports world that more than any other is a bargain and is an otherwise unbelievably useful product is MLB.TV.
MLB.TV is a system that is a section of MLB.com that allows baseball fans to watch every single Major League Baseball game for the entire season either live or on re-run.
By far, the most useful area of MLB.TV is the ability to watch games on re-run. All games are available on delay within a half hour of their completion. The reason that such a feature is so useful is because it allows rabid baseball fans to never ever have to miss a game ever while allowing such an activity to be done without buying numerous blank video tapes and having to go through the hassle of setting your VCR on a regular basis. Though Tivo could also perform the same function, as your computer is portable while your TV is not, you can have “your team with you” also as long as you have your computer— no matter where you go. Never would you have to have the fear of missing a game ever again. Tivo would be just as useful if you were always to be stationed in your home, but as MLB.TV can both be useful in your home and abroad, MLB.TV is a much better buy for the purpose of baseball only. With MLB.TV, wherever in the world you are, you can watch your team’s games on demand. The reason that this product is so useful for rabid baseball fans is because it sets them free from the slavery of their team’s schedules.
I am one of those fans. I don’t like missing games. For years, the stories of the lengths that I have gone to in order to see games have become family legends. The reasons that these stories have become so legendary is because many of them—most of them—are utterly ridiculous in nature. Some involve cell phones being held up to TVs and others that shall remain unspoken of go to even further lengths than that, but the bottom line is that for years, going through the “pleasure” of trying to see all of my team’s games was a ridiculous hassle in my life. If I ever was in a situation where nobody could tape a game for me, then I was put in a situation where I COULD NOT miss the game. For someone who also desires an active social life, this “responsibility” to my team could put me in very difficult situations on a regular basis. But with MLB.TV, no matter where I am, no matter what my plans are, no matter who may be around to help—or not help—me, I know I will be well taken care of. For only $130 for full-access MLB.TV for the entire season, for rabid fans, this is often times a life saving purchase.
For me, MLB.TV has been a life saver. Instead of summer nights of having my mother setting VCRs and getting blank tapes ready for me, now, I can miss a game to go out with my friends always knowing that when I get home, that night’s game will be waiting for me. No longer does anybody’s schedule—including mine—have to be compromised for the sake of a baseball game. MLB.TV is a relatively cheap way of acquiring every single MLB game—when you buy it you get all 30 teams—and putting thus games into your computer to be enjoyed at your disposal. I didn’t even mention how with MLB.TV your game-watching experience can be cut by up to a half hour at times via the ability to fast forward through commercials. But as I feel now as I have made my case for the usefulness of MLB.TV, I would like to provide you with some true examples from the 2007 season in which MLB.TV saved me.
First, as you all should know, I am also a huge hockey fan. During the time in which hockey is in the final stages of it’s regular season and if my Islanders make the playoffs—they did in 2007—those games also become un-missable entities for me. And as hockey does not offer such a system as MLB does with MLB.TV, I can watch my hockey games live and then watch my baseball games in re-run immediately after. There I can keep my allegiances to my multiple favorite teams at once.
Other such uses could involve games of teams other than your favorite team. One example for me was this summer when Barry Bonds hit home run 756. I was not home that night, but with MLB.TV, when I got home, I was able to go to that night’s Giants game, fast forward to the record breaking at bat, and then watch the home run being hit as well as I was able to also enjoy the post home run ceremonies. No Sports Center condensed highlight for this guy. I watch San Francisco Giants Fox Sports Bay Area’s coverage of the event. Without MLB.TV, I would have missed history.
Whether it is the ability to see your team when on vacation or after a hard night’s partying or whether it is the ability to see full coverage of history making moments, MLB.TV allows a fan to be as fully involved in the sport of baseball as possible while not having their time consumed and schedule continually altered as it would be otherwise. For me, MLB.TV is perhaps the biggest bargain that I have ever purchased. If you are a crazy big baseball fan, I urge you to go buy it NOW! Or at least before the season starts in April.