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Radio play-by-play of baseball games. I’m not really a baseball fan and I don’t care who wins or loses the games. But the calling of the pitches and the banter
by tkgally 4y ago
Radio play-by-play of baseball games.
I’m not really a baseball fan and I don’t care who wins or loses the games. But the calling of the pitches and the banter between the announcers provide something for my mind to latch onto so that I don’t think about work, war, climate change, or other topics that would keep me awake. I usually drift off in less than ten minutes.
I started this a few years ago listening to classic radio broadcasts downloaded from the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/classicmlbbaseballradio https://archive.org/details/classicmlbbaseballradio
The first game of the 1949 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers was particularly suitable for drifting off, because it went scoreless until the bottom of the ninth inning. I must have listened to it four or five times.
https://archive.org/download/classicmlbbaseballradio/1949%2010%2005%20Yankees%20vs%20Dodgers%20World%20Series%20Game%201.mp3 https://archive.org/download/classicmlbbaseballradio/1949%20...
This past April, I took out a one-year subscription to MLB streaming radio. I am now recording as mp3s all of the games this season for one team. Last night, I fell asleep to the May 7 game. This season’s full set of games should last me the rest of my life.
I listen to the mp3s on the iPhone app Bound with the timer set to 30 minutes.