Blogging the postseason and HD in Mid-Atlantic states

“There’s only one October.” This is a true statement and a tag line that Major League Baseball is sticking with for their postseason marketing campaign. I’m all for it, as long as they don’t have those awful Dane Cook commercials popping up to bug me while I watch reruns of The Office on TBS. MLB is looking to appeal to baseball fans this year, by relating to the explosion of blogging.

MLB has already started running their ad campaigns with various commercials, like the one below, that features someone sitting at a computer as you hear their thoughts out loud and see various words typed across the screen as if they were typing a blog post. MLB will call on some of its own players to star in these commercials, including Torii Hunter, Carlos Pena and Kosuke Fukudome, among others. I’m looking forward to seeing more of these commercials, and maybe it will keep me from turning the channel when Cook’s likeness was shown on TV last season.

In other baseball related news, the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network has announced that they will broadcast more Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals games in HD next season. Oh boy! It’s hard to watch these two teams play at times in regular definition or in person, why do we need Hi-Def to see them play?

The network announced that it will carry “as many as 200″ broadcasts in HD. I would guess that would depend on just how well the Orioles or Nationals are doing next season, but I would guess MASN viewers may be only seeing the minimum of one game a week in HD. Which games will those be? You know… when the Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees visit Camden Yards or when the New York Mets or Philadelphia Phillies visit the D.C. area.