Gameday Thread: Angels vs. Royals (4-12-2021)

[Chuck]

[Junkballer]

Bounce back game.

[Erstad Grit]

Hope Rendon is OK. Obviously great hitter, but his defense alone adds so much to this team. 

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 minute ago, Erstad Grit said:

Hope Rendon is OK. Obviously great hitter, but his defense alone adds so much to this team. 

Agreed. Its certainly hard to pull my groin looking at a lineup hes not in, because he pulled his.

[Angel Oracle]

Hoping they are just being cautious with Rendon due to the expected cold temps (low to mid 50s for every game), and that he’s good to go on Friday.

[eligrba4ever]

Go Angels!!!

Bury the Royals.

[jsnpritchett]

Question for anyone who uses MLB.tv:  I'm in Dallas for work for the next 2 days.  If I sign up for a free trial of MLB.tv, I should be able to get the Angels game, right?  I thought I'd be able to watch it through the Spectrum website, but it only allows you to watch things on a handful of networks--and none of the local LA ones.

[Lhalo]

Just now, jsnpritchett said:

Question for anyone who uses MLB.tv:  I'm in Dallas for work for the next 2 days.  If I sign up for a free trial of MLB.tv, I should be able to get the Angels game, right?  I thought I'd be able to watch it through the Spectrum website, but it only allows you to watch things on a handful of networks--and none of the local LA ones.

Yes. You're out of the blackout restriction zone.

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, Lhalo said:

Yes. You're out of the blackout restriction zone.

Cool, thanks!  Wasn't sure if it would somehow be tied to the home address affiliated with my e-mail address on MLB.com or something.

[Warfarin]

14 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Question for anyone who uses MLB.tv:  I'm in Dallas for work for the next 2 days.  If I sign up for a free trial of MLB.tv, I should be able to get the Angels game, right?  I thought I'd be able to watch it through the Spectrum website, but it only allows you to watch things on a handful of networks--and none of the local LA ones.

There are ways around the blackout restriction even if you are in OC/LA, fyi.

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, Warfarin said:

There are ways around the blackout restriction even if you are in OC/LA, fyi.

Well, I'm not particularly interested in those ways, as I can get the games through Spectrum.  Thanks, though!

[stormngt]

3 minutes ago, Warfarin said:

There are ways around the blackout restriction even if you are in OC/LA, fyi.

Tell me your secret

[jsnpritchett]

Just now, stormngt said:

Tell me your secret

VPN.

[stormngt]

Just now, jsnpritchett said:

VPN.

What is VPN?

[eligrba]

18 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Question for anyone who uses MLB.tv:  I'm in Dallas for work for the next 2 days.  If I sign up for a free trial of MLB.tv, I should be able to get the Angels game, right?  I thought I'd be able to watch it through the Spectrum website, but it only allows you to watch things on a handful of networks--and none of the local LA ones.

I think MLB uses the zipcode from the credit card used to pay for the service to determine blackout areas. 

[jsnpritchett]

1 minute ago, eligrba said:

I think MLB uses the zipcode from the credit card used to pay for the service to determine blackout areas. 

Uh-oh...

[eligrba]

20 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Question for anyone who uses MLB.tv:  I'm in Dallas for work for the next 2 days.  If I sign up for a free trial of MLB.tv, I should be able to get the Angels game, right?  I thought I'd be able to watch it through the Spectrum website, but it only allows you to watch things on a handful of networks--and none of the local LA ones.

Shouldn't the game be on the tv in the detention facilities rec room?

[jsnpritchett]

2 minutes ago, stormngt said:

What is VPN?

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-privacy-what-is-a-vpn.html

[Lhalo]

I've watched Angels games out of town on my phone before. Unless MLB changed their policy you should be fine.

[eligrba]

1 minute ago, eligrba said:

Shouldn't the game be on the tv in the detention facilities rec room?

Dallas, jail, rec room......never mind. 

[Warfarin]

4 minutes ago, eligrba said:

I think MLB uses the zipcode from the credit card used to pay for the service to determine blackout areas. 

I can verify this is not correct, based on my own experiences.  Or, I should say, I am able to access it despite the zip code on my cc.

[eligrba]

2 minutes ago, jsnpritchett said:

Uh-oh...

Blackout areas might also be determined by the ip address.....this makes more sense since some folks are using a vpn. 

Never mind. I will stop thinking now.

[Taylor]

6 minutes ago, Erstad Grit said:

Hope Rendon is OK. Obviously great hitter, but his defense alone adds so much to this team. 

Knowing the Angels, I'm sure the amputation is currently being scheduled.

[Redondo]

Let's get a win here guys!

[Warfarin]

If Rendon is "only" out just the 10 games, he should be back by the Astros series, which means we'll miss him vs the Royals, Twins, and perhaps all of the Rangers series.

Twins will be tough, but hopefully we can navigate through the easier series even without Rendon.

The bright side of this means Rojas should get a fair amount of starts, so we can see him in action a bit more and get a better idea of how he can fare against MLB competition.