Well it finally happened. The event that MLB.com has been advertising endlessly for the past few weeks. At 6:00 Eastern tonight the MLB Network officially launched making history as the largest cable network launch going to over 50 million households. They have been hailing this really a big deal. Now, not taking anything away from this network launch, because it is pretty amazing, I did feel a little silly watching Selig's address at 6:00. For some reason, I felt like I was one of maybe handful of people actually watching the launch of the network. That being said, when the program started, Hot Stove, it wasn't bad. It felt like a different version of Baseball Tonight. Reynolds is on the set (thus why it feels like Baseball Tonight) and he joined by a few others including Al Leiter,
They started talking about Manny, who Reynolds feels is still a very big option for the Mets and would push them over in the division, to with Leiter argued that Manny adds pop to the lineup but can be devestating to the locker room. That was all I really watched because they then announded that they would have Jimmy Rollins in the studio, so I went back to watching the Rose Bowl. I also caught the beginning of their headlining piece tonight, Larson's perfect game, which they did start with an introduction interview with Yogi and Don. If you still want to see this game you are in luck because they will be repeating about 10 times till tommorrow as they show more of their programs as the days go by. I feel that this station will really start to pick up as Spring Training starts (and it doesn't take rocket science to predict that).
