Podcast #6: Major League Baseball 2010 Preview, the iPad cometh,Twitter’s new home page

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Folks, we tried to keep our ranting and raving to a minimum but once again we failed and topped the one hour mark for this show!  I hope you all stick with it as sometimes the nuggets are to be discovered at the end of the show.

In this episode we discuss the imminent Major League Baseball season (Brandon R. thinks the St. Louis Cardinals will finally break through and topple the mighty NY Yankees).  Both Brandon R. and Brandon T. vent on the new, updated higher price ($15) for one of our favorite iPhone applications of last year, MLB At-Bat.  Also, watching streaming games now requires a MLB.TV subscription (cheapest is $99.95).

With the April 3rd release of the Apple iPad inching oh-so-close, we discuss our opinions on the device and take some fun potshots at grandpa Walt Mossberg’s boringly informative (debatable?) video reviews.

Finally, the Twitter folks have released a revamped version of their home page aimed at novices and Twitter noobs.  New features include scrolling “Top Tweets” and “Trending Topics”. Does anybody look at this page anyway?

Show notes:

• Hal Bodley of MLB.com’s picks for the 2010 MLB season
• Peter Gammons’ Six Teams to Watch in 2010
• MLB At-Bat 2010
• MLB At-Bat 2010 application page on iTunes
• iPad thoughts as it is released this Saturday (April 3) – Interesting take on “early adopters”
• Walt gives his $.02 on the iPad – For what it’s worth…
• Everybody, including TED is getting ready for the iPad release
• Twitter releases a new home page featuring “Top Tweets” and “Trending Topics.”