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First Look: MLB.com At Bat 2009
Opening Day of the Major League Baseball 2009 season is just around the corner, and MLB.com At Bat 2009 (click opens iTunes) has been released. Beware -- this post contains bad baseball metaphors.This year's app has all the tools. After you agree to a list of Terms and Conditions as lengthy as a major-league player contract, a list of all of the games currently in progress or scheduled for the day appears. Starting on April 6th, every game will have Gameday enabled, which lets you view stats and a pitch by pitch recap of what's happening. Tapping a player's name brings up a virtual baseball card, complete with career and season stats and a line score for the game in progress.
Also on April 6th, a new feature will touch all the bases -- live Gameday Audio from either the home or visiting team radio announcers streamed to your iPhone. As with last year's At Bat app, you'll be able to pull up video clips of games shortly after key plays occur.
Do you miss plays while buying a beer or standing in line for the men's room? No problem, since the app also has a live box score.
MLB.com At Bat 2009 hits a home run! You can get the entire season (including postseason play) for US$9.99. Note that you'd pay $14.99 for just the Gameday audio on MLB.com. There's also a rookie (lite) version available for free that doesn't include the streaming audio. Check out the gallery below.
Gallery: MLB.com At Bat 2009
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tuta said 6:58PM on 3-30-2009
$10 is just small enough I might be able to slip this under the wife-dar...
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Galley said 7:29PM on 3-30-2009
All of the Gameday features (except for audio) are available now, for select games. .
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Hal said 7:36PM on 3-30-2009
Does it have full schedules? The schedule downloads available for MLB are abysmal.
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austin said 9:25PM on 3-30-2009
this should be an update to last years at-bat.
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Tony Bowman said 11:12PM on 3-30-2009
you don't really pay attention do you? there is a FREE version that includes everything but the Gameday audio, which costs $14 or so on it's own through mlb.tv. so, this is actually a BETTER deal for that SUBSCRIPTION content.
get the free version and stop whining.
no one likes a whiner.
Tyler R. said 10:12PM on 3-30-2009
Anyone know if you are able to use the Gameday Audio on the website if you buy this app, or is the audio limited to the app only?
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justin said 4:13PM on 3-31-2009
I've been trying to find this out, and it looks like that you do not get to listen through MLB.com even if you buy th App with Gameday Audio.
I bought the app, then tried logging into MLB.com with the same email address iTunes uses, and I was told I needed to purchase GameDay Audio.
Sucks!
shaps80 said 11:28PM on 3-30-2009
Can anyone tell me if there is any other reason to buy the full version other than gameday audio?
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BOK said 12:19AM on 3-31-2009
While I am very pleased with this app as well, I get goosebumps of embarrassment reading this post out loud. Did a PR flak hack into Webblogs and post this?
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BOK said 12:20AM on 3-31-2009
OK, I missed the sentence warning me about bad baseball metaphors. I guess all's fair then.
Mike said 1:59AM on 3-31-2009
Great app but i think we need a few more baseball puns in there "kidding!" this is great i cant wait plus i just found out about backrounder a JB app so now i dont have to totaly stay in the app while i listen to the games!
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jopego said 7:47AM on 3-31-2009
I play on computer in baseball. It realy cool game. Now I download it and install on my Iphone find links for download use http://rapid4me.com - rapidshare search engine and play in this game every day then get to my work.
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philpoccia said 9:12AM on 3-31-2009
I bought last year's version. Do I have to pay for this one, or is it not a free upgrade?
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justin said 4:15PM on 3-31-2009
It's a free upgrade to At Bat Lite, which is everything but GameDay Audio.
tanata said 4:46PM on 3-31-2009
Does the game day audio work over Edge?
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Mike said 5:58PM on 3-31-2009
So I already have MLB Audio, do I still have to pay $10 on top of that for the App?
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John Mish said 9:35AM on 5-05-2009
There is a FREE version that includes everything but the Gameday audio, which costs $14 or so on it's own through mlb.tv.
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