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Analyzing Baseball with R is the best book, I believe:

https://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Baseball-Data-Chapman-Hall/dp/1466570229

I also would download PitchRX and Baseball on a Stick to round out your toolkit!

-Kyle

Yes, you CAN!!!! All you need is the NordVPN app, pay for the monthly subscription and connect to a server out in Colorado or something. That's why I don't miss ANY games. You can watch the Reds on YouTube TV, add the MLB package. Use NordVPN to connect first, and then open up the game page.

Louisville Bats radio - Bats @ Indy Indians

Made a thread for this, as I'd forgotten we have off day threads - but thought I'd drop it here too. Scooter led off the game with a double!

I was! Some pics from the day. I bailed after the fourth as well - thirty to fifty MPH wind gusts don't make the best baseball conditions.

Some scuttlebutt and observations:

• It's possible that the Reds and the Pirates can both play defense, but it's hard to tell when they're playing in fifty MPH winds. Seriously, look at the bend in the flagpoles in the pictures - they took the flags down after the first inning.

• Jay Bruce spent batting practice hitting the ball to left field.

• Joey Votto greets the first base umpire by nodding and touching the brim of his cap respectfully.

• Brandon Phillips is willing to slide headfirst into third on a triple in an exhibition game.

• Starling Marte is probably the most entertaining left fielder to watch in the game today. Especially with fifty MPH winds.

The weather radar up the Ohio from Evansville to Louisville is all clear but judge for yourself https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/cincinnati/45229/weather-radar/350126

What storms there are have been moving north of the area. There is a line entering Southwestern Indiana that could be a problem, but it keeps drifting north.

Unless everything just pops up around here, I think we stand a real shot to get this in

If you were watching the broadcast on TV and want to listen to Marty on the radio here for post game before he heads downstairs: https://www.iheart.com/live/700wlw-1713/?autoplay=true&pname=15400&campid=header&cid=index.html

I have used the app below to watch games regardless of where I am. It has some ads you have to get through bit then it works. I have had no issues. I don't know how they do it but it is an app store app. If you have an Android and want to try it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=df.stream.mlb

Dope. I may resort to pirated streams next year since I’ve had increasingly less success with the + NordVPN app on Amazon FireTV. I’ve been connecting my laptop to the tube for the best steaming experience. Honestly, it’s ridiculous the lengths we have to go to watch the Reds in-market without cable.

I use a VPN to workaround the blackouts. I already pay for IPVanish for other reasons, so the baseball is just a plus. It's a bit more expensive, but at $6.50 a month when you pay for the whole year upfront, it's worth it for me.

Ad-free-time was my solution for a while and it was cheap and effective. For $2 a month, I got around blackouts for 2 years.

"Reds move Tony Cingrani to the 15-day DL (with a strained left shoulder)"

I'm just picturing a clown ambulance following this team around all the time.

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Perhaps the best ever. Bravo.

The Brave browser has a VPN that is $10/month on iphone, i’ve used it to watch blacked out games on from my phone

On desktop, I use Mullvad VPN, which is ~$6/month and works with MLB tv as well.

Not an archive of old games but here is an old Reds/Dodgers broadcast.

https://archive.org/details/baseball_otr

Limited on my mobile, but if you did around some more you may find some big games at the very least.

the answer is to pay $5/month for Unlocator service (unsurprisingly at ) and buy the remainder of the season, Reds only, from for something like $36 (one time, not monthly). Easy peezy, works great. I use the mlb app through Roku on one TV, and the mlb app on my iphone to either Airplay it to other tvs or watch it mobile.

if you need a cop out you could use this high heel chocolate mold, but i would expect you to put it on your foot first before eating

Just watch a stream online. Or you could always use a VPN or IPVanish to avoid the blackouts on . Modern problems require modern solutions. I'm assuming the Reds get the money from their Bally contract regardless of number of viewers so by changing providers, you're not helping the Reds, just the local network. Supposedly this year, Sinclair and Bally will offer a subscription app to stream the Reds and the 19 other local networks they own as well as offer betting services on said app. Hopefully it won't be expensive. In regard to growing the game, well you got a good point there.

I use PrivateVPN and it usually works for me. It's pretty cheap relatively speaking, at the time they had a deal where I paid $70 for three years.

I know you probably don't want to hear that it costs money but I think it's worth the investment as the baseball nerd I am.

I don't remember exactly what it is about, but I read this book a few years ago and I remember it being good. Tom Browning's book was pretty good too.

There may be nothing on the radar, but it's pouring rain here. Has been since around midnight.

And I'm not sure what radar you are looking at, but going to weather.com, I can definitely see rain. And lots of it.

First, get a fan membership to the MLB Player Alumni Association ($25 per year, but it saves in the next step)

Then, purchase an subscription (usually like $120 per year, but the MLBPAA subscription gives like 50% off)

Then, purchase a VPN service. I use ExpressVPN ($100 a year), but I’ve also heard that NordVPN is good. Do not use any of the free VPN services. They’re free for a reason. What the VPN does is sets up a private tunnel to send all your internet traffic through to another location. I set mine to go to San Francisco or Seattle or something like that. You can use the VPN app on your phone or laptop to watch the games. You could also set up VPN on your home router if you use Roku or a Fire Stick or something like that. I’ve had that work sometimes, but I think the app catches on to that somehow. It recently stopped working for me, but I can still watch on my phone or laptop.

So for about $85 (for the discounted subscription plus the MLBPAA account) and $100 for VPN service, you can watch all the Reds (and other teams) you want.

You could also publish it as a reminder physical paper too!

Has anyone been able to use NordVPN to watch the game on ? My song and dance from last year isn't working and I'm wondering if has decided to just block any IP labelled as coming from a data center as invalid.

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Probably isn’t right, but it’s from ancestry.com

https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=india

A warning: It looks like they've had problems adding the fox sports regions to all regions. They're still working through some kinks. Make sure if you sign up you do a trial first to ensure you can get the region.

For information about the free trial: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/faq/

For everyone in this thread who has lost the channel, YouTubeTV is running a two-week free trial. It has all the networks and all the sports channels including FSOH.

Before you ask, no I don't work for them. I'm just really happy with the service since I cancelled my $150/mo DirecTV. The streaming quality is amazing, too.

Checking in! Been listening to Tommy and the Cowboy for a couple innings now - first plate appearance I heard was Boog Powell, which was EXTREMELY disorienting.

For the record, here's how I'm listening from outside AM radio range: I pay for SiriusXM for my car radio, which also lets me use the Android app and/or https://www.siriusxm.com. SiriusXM has EVERY MLB RADIO CALL ALL THE TIME available online - Reds are on channel 846 today, and maybe every day for all I know.

I only just now figured out that might work, since SiriusXM added the online stuff to every car radio's bundle... and it's working like a charm today!

So hey, all hail Stuart Fairchild (?), and go Reds!

That baseball card commercial tempts me more every time I see it. Anyone know if this is a good starter pack for someone looking to get into collecting baseball cards?

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B084Q8BCGT/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_2?smid=A1BLYNNJ3368EL&psc=1

This is a guy I have used a couple times. I have gotten about 25 packs and got some good cards and only one pack was clearly messed with and when I contacted him about it he sent me a new pack.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BX8PO6I?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details

Interesting, for me most days it works flawlessly, and every once and a while does not work at all.

I think it’s a matter of rebooting the application and device various times to work out IP caching glitches with MLB TV to get the location to be accepted.

I highly recommend Private Internet Access. Has let me watch the Reds the whole season

Chad Dotson from redleg nation wrote a book with Chris Garber called The Big 50: The Men and Moments that Made the Cincinnati Reds. I haven’t personally read it but I’ve nothing but great things about it. It has a lot of older and obscure things/players fans may not know. If you are looking for player from the 60s and before then you should check out these players

Ernie Lombardi Ted Kluszewski Frank Robinson (probably the best player before the big red machine) Heine Groh Jim Maloney Edd Roush Bid McPhee Vada Pinson (first African American player for the reds) Johnny Vander Meer (only pitcher in mlb history to throw back to back no-hitters) George and Harry Wright (stars of the first professional baseball team the 1869 Red Stockings)

The reds hall of fame would also be a great place for you to visit if you want to learn more about reds early history.

So I signed up for ExpressVPN to do just this, I changed the DNS to what ExpressVPN said to do, but MLB is still saying I'm blacked out. I am located in SF (Go Giants), I changed the location to Canada, do I need to delete and reload the MLB app? Any help would be appreciated.

I got MLB TV thinking Private Internet Access VPN would help me around the blackouts, and it looks like it isn’t working on mobile. Anyone have any lucks with settings or different media mediums’ MLB TV working with VPNs?

Redleg Journal

This was written in 2000, but this book is fantastic

https://www.amazon.com/Redleg-Journal-Year-Cincinnati-Since/dp/096414025X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=redleg+journal&qid=1618595915&sr=8-1

As far as blackouts go, there are ways around it.

Try using a VPN to mask your address, or there's another service called Unblock-Us that I've heard will get you around blackouts as well.

I just use streaming sites, so I don't have personal experience with it.. But if you're going to pay for , to make it worth it you're gonna want to get around those blackouts for sure.

Would a service like Ad Free Time work? AFT is $1.99 and PIA is $40 for the year. Both would be cheaper for me over the long term.

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It's about stuff like sabremetrics and statistics in baseball.

My mistake for misinterpreting you.

"Clutch" is a really overrated term in baseball, though. I mentioned the book <em>Baseball Between the Numbers</em> earlier in the thread, and in it Nate Silver does a nice chapter on how clutch hitting is pretty fickle and tends to vary wildly from year to year. So don't get hung up on Joey Votto's perceived lack of "clutch" ability. The dude has been in the show for six years now, it's not like all of the sudden he's developed cold feet at the plate when there are men on base. He's just run into some hard luck. I promise you that at some point, be it next week, next month, or next year, Joey Votto will start tearing it up with RISP and Reds fans will love him again.