MLB At Bat adds in-app purchases

No mention of the addition of push notifications? I think this is a more exciting feature than 99 cent games.

i'm already a subscriber to MLB.tv Premium, so I can watch every Red Sox game on my HDTV (MacBook Pro connected to it!). The in-app purchases do add anything for me, but it's cool for the people who don't have mlb.tv already

I love this App, I once again got a Cable system that Promised a Base ball package when I signed up but than it never happened because Direct TV has the last word on Who gets to have baseball packages ( and guess who doenst get them usually? Yes Non-Direct Customers) so this App has saved my like, MY system Gets the YES network (I am in CA) and I get to watch PRe GAme, Batting Practice and Post Game but goes BLACK during game time so this App has saved my life because MLB for the computer never worked well and was more aggravating than anything else so Now the Occasional Live stream of a Yanks game is great and the daily Radio Broadcast from The NYC Announcers makes me feel quite at home. I like that they keep updating the App even if it has things I will seldom use, but NOW that Football is on the weekends my Local Places to Watch games will be all Football all the time so I will more than likely buy a .99 game here and there.

Blackouts will be there as long as there is no revenue in it for the owners of the broadcast. YES and SNY see online in-market broadcasting online as subtractive from both their television viewership and ticket sales. Since higher numbers in those two areas mean higher advertising revenues, online broadcasting doesn't mean anything to them. Their mindset is still very television-centric. But that being said, baseball as a whole has the most progressive coverage online of the major American sports. And the online streaming subscription service w/iPhone add-in is terrific, especially if you are like me and don't have a television.

I need this for college football, too.

Reagrding the article, never at any time were all the feeds freely televised as implied. They added the daily live feed for 1-3 games, all free, early in the season. Then after the All-Star game, they opened up the live feeds for all games to MLB.TV subscribers but still offered 1 free game. Shortly there after it was back to 1-2 free games (usually 2) similar to before. So, the only real change was adding the feeds for the MLB.TV subscribers (and now the 99c games). The app continues to get better and better. $10 to listen to every game for the year? I can't complain.

As for the blackout restrictions (there from the beginning), that sucks. Happy to not have to deal with that.

that app is too expensive too keep up with.

Why the heck can't MLB get the contracts with the TV networks that cause them to need blackouts modified so that there are no blackouts and the TV networks get a cut of the revenue? 99 cents per game, or $15 per month, must be much more than an individual's contribution to ad revenue, so it seems like a no brainer that they must be able to come up with a business model that allows the internet viewers to watch the game they actually want to watch - their home team's game!

is this the free version too or the paid version only?

This update also adds notifications for your favorite team.