Nothing is more American than hot dogs, apple pie and baseball and making time to watch baseball on TV is definitely one of America’s pastimes. Even though going to the ball park and enjoying the game from the stands is an experience everyone should have, with all the cameras in place during a televised game, you’ll definitely see all the action. There are lots of reasons you’ll want to watch baseball on TV this season, aside from not missing any of the great hits or catches.
Here are some great reasons you’ll want to watch at home:
1. Watching baseball games on TV, especially with sports packages that includes the MLB Network gives you the ability to watch more than one game at a time. If you have picture-in-a-picture on your HDTV, you can actually keep track of the action on two different channels at once.
2. Many channels showing games like ESPN2 have a banner running at the bottom with current game scores and baseball news running throughout the game so you always know how your teams are doing.
3. As baseball is a game of strategy as much as skill, it is much easier to see the strategy a team is using to score runners on TV than at the park. This becomes even more important during the playoffs as teams work their way through the pennant races to the World Series.
4. Watching baseball on TV, especially the pennant races and the World Series means you get to see the best baseball games of the year without having to travel to all the different ball parks to watch them. If you’ve got a DVR you can record the day games and watch them at night so you don’t have to miss a single pitch.
5. Having a DVR to watch baseball on not only means you never miss any of the action but you can even pause and rewind live TV so you can see an awesome pitch or see that stupendous grand slam homer as many times as you want and catch back up to live TV with the press of a button.
6. Baseball on TV may not have the same ambience as being at the ball park but being able to go to the rest room without having to fight through the crowds, eat hot dogs and other snacks at reasonable prices and not having to fight traffic into and out of the parking lot are a few reasons that watching baseball on TV are truly undeniable.
Certainly the best time to watch baseball is during the fall since that’s when the pennant races start. Whether you go to the park or watch it on TV, you will see the most competitive games that will be played all year. Watching it on TV lets you see the effort, the skill and the strategy that the real stars of the game bring to bear up close and personal, not to mention the antics and actions of the crowd. If you love baseball and feel that there’s no other sport like it, then watching all the great games on sports channels will give you all the satisfaction you could want.