So, I was an early adopter of MLB.tv. And I always hoped that streaming technology would actually centralize baseball broadcasts. That is, I hoped one day that I could simply pay MLB and see all my team’s games from their home broadcast wherever I was in the world.

We’re not there, really. Local sports networks are now offering their own streaming packages. Meanwhile, MLB continues to sell special packages of games to other national broadcasters, whether Fox, ESPN, or now Apple TV. This weekend features a rematch of the NLCS, the Mets versus the Dodgers.  My normal TV broadcast, led by Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez, is being displaced by Apple TV, Fox, and ESPN. Ugh!

But I want to give three cheers for Apple TV, which provides the wonderful courtesy of allowing viewers to choose their local radio broadcast audio over Apple TV’s own announcers. I’m enough of a fan that I usually feel like the national broadcasters aren’t able to dig deeper into the season-long storylines of my team and its players.  This is an innovation I wish every national broadcaster would allow if you’re not watching over cable.

Now if only Apple could create a hologram of Steve Somers to beam into my room to chat in the postgame.