Over the past few summers when the Cubs had a day game during the work week I would listen to it on the radio in my office. Once in a while I'd do the same thing if I had a SP on my fantasy team pitching in a day game.

I don't know why, but this summer any time there was a day game on during the work week, I listened to on the radio in my office. Just random games between any two teams. I really got attached to having a baseball broadcast playing at a low volume in the background as I did my work shit during the day. It was relaxing in a lot of respects and I started to look forward to the afternoons when I had a game on.

For me there is just something about the pace of the game and the pauses that allows me to still get stuff done no matter how technical the job or how focused I'll have to be on the task at hand.

It's kind of a bummer for me that I'll only have two more weeks of day games, except for the few that I might get in the Division Series round.

I think baseball is better on the radio than TV, which is why the whole replay/ezone thing is so tiring. My ideal farm work day is Cubs afternoon game, evening with either Sox or Tigers followed by a late night with either Sox or Tigers on the West coast. I'll even enjoy an ESPN Sunday night game (likely NYYvBOS), unless NFL is on.

At my former job, we enjoyed an afternoon game on radio in the shop, until the new car wash next door started using their variable-frequency electric motors, the static is ear-piercing!

Baseball on the radio is the best. The most personal way to experience the game without actually being there.

You can be working in a shop, garage, outdoors, studio, around the house, driving somewhere, exercising or just doing nothing and all the while enjoying baseball on the radio.

Working on art in my studio and listening to a baseball game on the radio is a major stress relief.

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Yeah. A ball game is a nice filler if you are going to be stuck in a tractor for hours on end. Radio with good reception (Or modern ones with blue tooth link to phone) makes the day or night go by a lot faster.

I agree . . . and I would even listen to the Cubs . . . but I can no longer stomach Zaidman.

I have a hard enough time with Farmio.

Do you get Cards games, too? I used to listen to Shannon in college, and he was ok, but just listening to the guy made me want to drink. That's all he ever talked about. "Get yourself a nice cold frosty one!"

http://freebaseballradio.com/mlb.html

Supposed to be a way you can find streams of the radio broadcasts for any baseball team. I can't speak to the value of the website, so if someone gives it a spin let the rest of us kids know how it went.

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In 78 I'd gotten a concussion the night before the Bucky Dent game(had a swollen eye from football to prove it). But I took a small radio to school the next day, complained about a non existent headache so I could leave class and listen to the game with my earphone. Got caught by my shop teacher who made me pull the earphone out so he could hear the end of the game live as well.

We both laughed and wondered what Dent would've done for our White Sox

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Sometimes. It’s pretty solid Cubs territory but cardinal games are findable and KMOX is KMOX even if we are on the daytime fringe range of it. I don’t go searching but I’ve heard games before on a semi Local FM station (Cubs are on one too).

When I drove to Missouri for Reserve weekends, always enjoyed hearing Rooney

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I miss Rooney.

And I can stream all the radio broadcasts on mlb app. I’m not sure why I pay for that feature but I think it was because I was getting a lot of interference from storms and the like one year and was missing games so the wife got it for me as a Father’s Day gift or something. It’s a nice option if you want a game on in background.

I think the hockey one is free for that, occasionally I flip on one of the French Canadian broadcasts and see if I have any concept at all of what they are saying. French is a tad rusty to say the least.