What's Wrong With This Picture?

Last year, right before football started, we set up hi-def TV. Man, is it gorgeous. I've become very spoiled by it. Imagine my excitement to hear that all DBacks home games on FSN were going to be shown in HD. However, the technology still seems to be too new for everyone to understand. The first two HD home games were unwatchable. The first game had transmission problems. During the second game, the audio trailed the video by about 3 seconds for the entire game, including commercials. I have found these problems to be not uncommon when watching HD broadcasts on satellite, but more often than not the picture is crystal clear.

Yesterday when I sat down and flipped on the game, I was surprised to find that it was NOT broadcast in HD so I decided to check the FSN web site.

86 D-BACKS GAMES IN HIGH DEFINITION THIS SEASON:

FSN Arizona will televise a record 86 D-backs games in High Definition during the 2008 season. The 86 HD telecasts represents the largest number of D-backs games ever offered in High Definition in a season by any outlet and it is a 405 percent increase over the amount of D-backs telecasts FSN Arizona produced in HD last season. Every single home game that is scheduled to be televised by FSN Arizona will be done so in High Definition (72 total), as well as 14 road games, including eight against National League West rivals Colorado, Los Angeles and San Francisco. FSN Arizona also took the steps to ensure that the most important games are in High Definition, highlighted by the fact that 11 of the D-backs final 14 televised games of the regular season can be seen in HD. (Italics mine)

The site goes on further to list the home games available in HD this month.

THIS MONTH'S HD SCHEDULE:

Here are the upcoming D-backs games that will be available in High Definition:
* April 11 - Rockies (6:40 pm)
* April 18 - Padres (6:40 pm)
* April 19 - Padres (5:10 pm)
* April 20 - Padres (1:10 pm)
* April 21 - Giants (6:40 pm)
* April 28 - Astros (6:40 pm)
* April 29 - Astros (6:40 pm)
* April 30 - Astros (12:40 pm)

I don't see April 14th's game on that list. Am I missing something here?


BASH BROTHERS

BJ and Justin Upton are both off to great starts. BJ, 23, is currently hitting .302 with an OBP of .423 and slugging percentage of .442 and 11 RBI with Tampa Bay. Younger brother Justin, 20, has a .400 average, and OBP of .442 and a slugging percentage of .756, 5 homers and 11 RBI.


TRAGICALLY HIP

Remember how badly I wanted Erik Bedard in the off season? Bedard was scratched from his start Sunday because of inflammation in his left hip. Bedard also sat out April 6 at Baltimore with the same injury, but returned to the rotation Tuesday to earn his first win of the season at Tampa Bay. Now this comes from Lookout Landing:

It's not good.

The Mariners are being coy about it, but the situation looks to be worse than they're letting on, and the fear is that if Bedard gets an MRI and a proper diagnosis, they'll have to shut him down for a significant amount of time. And if they don't do that and decide to play it day by day, it's an injury that could nag him all season.

Thankfully, instead of Bedard's bad bum, we've got Danny being Danny.