[nfbwatlk] Gloom, Dispair and Agony

[Mike Freeman]

Maryellen:

Walt's suggestion of getting one of those little FM transmitters and 
hooking it to your computer's sound card output so that you can listen 
with a FM portable radio around the house makes perfect sense.

I also have a device made by a company called Akoo that has two parts: 
one is a device that hooks to the sound card of the computer and 
transmits the output at 900 mHz to a receiver which has a little FM 
transmitter in it or it can also be wired directly to a stereo and one 
can listen to the computer on the stereo that way.

I also remember seeing rather decent sounding wireless speakers at a 
Brookstone outlet that will allow you to take the speaker set around the 
house and listen to your computer.

All this is to say that you could then listen to MLB GameDay Audio on 
your computer and wander around the house listening to your heart's 
content. I am not terribly enamered of XM Radio as around here it 
requires a decent southern exposure and my info is that the XM-capable 
portable radios don't work all that well around here. So I favor the 
computer route with additional hardware for listening around the house.

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mary Ellen
  To: 'NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List'
  Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Gloom, Dispair and Agony


  Since the Seattle Mariners have been declared by our moderator to be a
  blindness topic, I'm writing to whine a little and perhaps find a 
solution
  which will stop further whining.
  As anyone who knows me well can testify, I'm a baseball fan, as in 
fanatic.
  Western Canada is not the place for me, since baseball comes somewhere
  behind curling (what a snore) on the sports agenda. I've defended my 
sanity
  by becoming a hockey fan (sort of), but I'm desperately homesick for
  baseball!
  The first week of the season I was tuning around the dial and KOMO 
came in
  clear as a bell. For two glorious innings (glorious except for the 
fact that
  the Mariners gained, and then lost, the lead and the game) I could 
enjoy a
  baseball game! I walked around the house proclaiming "Life is good!"
  Unfortunately, and this is where the whining comes in, the great 
reception
  must have been due to an atmospheric fluke, because I haven't been 
able to
  achieve it since. I'm like a starving person who has been given a 
taste of
  food and has been left on the outside while a feast is being served. I 
know
  I could subscribe to an internet service which would allow me to 
listen to
  games, but I can't spend the whole evening in front of the computer. I 
need
  a solution which will let me move around the house. I listen to games 
while
  doing dishes and ironing. When the weather is warmer, I dream of being 
able
  to relax on our porch swing with a game playing.
  Kelowna has a West Coast Collegiate Baseball League team whose home 
games
  are broadcast locally. Their games provide comic relief, but I'm so 
starved
  for baseball that I look forward to them each year. However, the home 
season
  is 21 games long, unless a miracle happens and the team gets into the 
league
  playoffs.
  I've heard that XM Satellite radio carries games. That might be a 
solution.
  Does anybody have any experience with XM? I've even wondered if there 
is a
  phone number I could call to listen to the games. That would be very
  workable, since we have a no limits long distance package and a 
speaker
  phone, so I could listen hands free in the kitchen. Any suggestions? 
Thanks
  for tolerating my being the guest of honor at my own pity party.

  Mary Ellen


  -----Original Message-----
  From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
On
  Behalf Of Mike Freeman
  Sent: April 13, 2008 5:54 PM
  To: NFB of Washington Talk
  Subject: [nfbwatlk] Gloom, Dispair and Agony


  GRRR!!!

  While the starting pitching wasn't bad today, the M's aren't going to
  get anywhere close to a pennat until the bullpen has more depth.

  Mike Freman

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