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YouTube just keeps adding quality content. Last week it was comedy, and this week it’s bulking up on its sporting chops with a Major League Baseball partnership. Always among the most tech-savvy of major sports leagues, MLB has beefed up the offerings on its YouTube channel to include highlights from every game of 2013 (two days after they’ve occurred), and a vast archive of full games from as far back as 1952. Plus, should you reside outside the US, Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan, you’ll get to watch two live games every day during the regular season for free. So, seamheads, head on over to the MLB.com YouTube channel — your digital field of dreams awaits.

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Major League Baseball has announced today that it is working with Qualcomm to greatly improve wireless coverage in its ballparks. This move means that in the near future MLB stadiums will have the strongest cellular connectivity. MLB Advanced Media, which is partnership between club owners that’s focused on technology, and Qualcomm are working together to enhance connectivity in 30 club stadiums. The first step is surveying stadiums which will be done over the next two years. After the survey has been done, Qualcomm will begin improving connectivity in each stadium. It will focus on 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity which will also be used by MLB Advanced Media to provide game related content to the crowd. It is not clear as of now whether it will be true LTE or HSPA+.

It is expected that the plan will be completed in 2015. MLB also recently partnered with T-Mobile to move bullpen-to-dugout connectivity to cellphones, a significant update from the previously used landlines. Visitors to the stadium will no doubt be grateful for improved wireless connectivity, good to see that sporting venues are keeping up with modern technology.

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April 1, 2013 not only marks everyone’s least favorite holiday, April Fools’ Day, but it also marks the official start to baseball as MLB’s opening day is set to start later today. Getting your friends and family around your TV to watch the opening day festivities will be tricky on a Monday night, but a new app will allow you to watch baseball and still communicate with your friends or family while also giving you important stats regarding the game you’re watching.

Tok.tv is announcing they’re making it possible to not only deliver sports statistics to you through their TV app, but the service will also make it possible for you to voice chat with up to four remote people in order to make the experience as close to having people over as possible, without the need to clean up your apartment or ordering pizza for your guests. “We found voice is the medium to generate emotion, people don’t want to type home run, they want to yell home run,” said Tok.tv’s founder and chief executive Fabrizio Capobianco. (more…)

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The team at Breakfast NY never leaves us hungry when it merges the digital and physical worlds — and this time it’s created something that hits it out of the park for the start of this year’s US baseball season. Here at the Major League Baseball Fan Cave in downtown NYC, the team has just unveiled its space program-inspired Mission Control Center. As creative director and co-founder Andrew Zolty explained, “the idea is try and pull in pretty much everything you can possibly imagine that’s going on during the 2013 MLB season, and do it in a way that feels reminiscent of NASA’s control room: Mission Control.”

The 20-foot-long installation houses two sets of 15 small screens (roughly eight inches each), broken up in the middle (one side for the American League teams and the other for the National League teams) by a large LCD and a consumer-grade webcam. Below the screens you’ll notice a plethora of switches with LEDs, info lights and a trio of odometers. Both sides feature three rows of five screens, each pertaining to one of the 30 MLB teams and their stadiums. At the flick of a switch, the screens display real-time connected data like recent Foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.

Those smaller screens, by the way, are actually physically modded Android-tablets — unfortunately, Breakfast wasn’t at liberty to tell us exactly which kind they are. Essentially, they are all running custom apps, with support from MLB.TV to pull real-time, live streams from each stadium in the league. In total, we’re told that 13 APIs and seven languages of software work in conjunction to makeup the Control Center. The setup will also allow players visiting the Cave to have live chats with with roughly 10 fans at a time who participate from MLB’s site (sort of like Google+) — of course, the chats allow an essentially unlimited number of spectators. Curious for more of the nitty gritty? Join us past the break.

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Now that iOS 6 has officially landed, Apple has pulled back the veil revealing the first wave of apps to support its new Passbook feature. The initial group of companies to jump on the bandwagon include: Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Lufthansa, MLB.com At Bat, Sephora to Go, Walgreens and Fandango Movies. While this list is a tad bit shorter than we hoped for, it’s safe to say that more apps will follow in the not-so-distant future. Want to be the first to know when they arrive? Be sure to keep an eye on the Passbook section of the App Store for the latest updates.

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