{"id":390,"date":"2006-09-02T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T05:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/4-things-i-cant-stand-about-mlbcom\/"},"modified":"2006-09-02T21:21:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T05:21:09","slug":"4-things-i-cant-stand-about-mlbcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/4-things-i-cant-stand-about-mlbcom\/","title":{"rendered":"4 things I can&#8217;t stand about MLB.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Popup ads. I&#8217;m paying $15 a month. Why should I be subjected to<br \/>\npop-up ads? They seem to be specifically designed to work around popup<br \/>\nblockers.<\/p>\n<p>2. The same Tom Petty ad over and over again during commercial breaks.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s driving me crazy to hear the same clip 20 times per game.<\/p>\n<p>3. Video that plays automatically on certain pages. It&#8217;s not considered<br \/>\nnice to play video with sound when someone&#8217;s not expecting it,<br \/>\nespecially when they may be using it an office environment.<\/p>\n<p>4. The MLB player is absolutely huge, without offering much<br \/>\nfunctionality. How about adding who&#8217;s up at bat, strikes and outs<br \/>\ninstead of just the scoreboard? I can close the scoreboard and news<br \/>\nticker, but I don&#8217;t see the point of doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I&#8217;ll be using it for much longer. Schilling and Papelbon are now injured too. Clearly, God is a Yankees fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Popup ads. I&#8217;m paying $15 a month. Why should I be subjected to pop-up ads? They seem to be specifically designed to work around popup blockers. 2. The same Tom Petty ad over and over again during commercial breaks. It&#8217;s driving me crazy to hear the same clip 20 times per game. 3. Video &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/02\/4-things-i-cant-stand-about-mlbcom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;4 things I can&#8217;t stand about MLB.com&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}