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Monday, April 09, 2007 |
A Dodgers Home Opener Gift: Retro Gameday For Everyone!
This is still kinda experimental, but I think it should work: it's a list of links that will pop up an old-school Gameday window for every game played today. Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to subject some of you to some alpha futzing while I get the kinks out. Here's the links, with the following caveats:
Yankees @ Twins
Royals @ Blue Jays
Devil Rays @ Rangers
White Sox @ Athletics
Phillies @ Mets
Cardinals @ Pirates
Astros @ Cubs
Rockies @ Dodgers
Brewers @ Marlins
Reds @ Diamondbacks
- This is based on a crawl of the mlb.com schedule page. The game_id field (gid) used by actual Gameday-populated games (i.e., those in progress or near to being so) uses somewhat different team codes from the box scores, so not all of those translations have been done yet. I'll revisit these tonight and over the next couple of days so I can get them right, but the all two-team cities and San Diego should be right at this point.
I'm still working out the size of the game popup.I'm using 770x600, which looks about right on Linux Firefox; if this seems wrong, drop a line in the comments.The crawler is getting unnecessary duplicates for some reason.Fixed.The launch Javascript is also starting a duplicate Gameday session in the main window.Fixed.- I haven't encountered any doubleheaders yet, but it's certain to break when one is scheduled. I'll burn that bridge when I cross it, or something.
- The MLB scoreboard at the top is still broken and probably will remain so. Also, since some have asked in the comments, the old chat feature is no longer supported by MLBAM.
- Hopefully this will become automated.
Yankees @ Twins
Royals @ Blue Jays
Devil Rays @ Rangers
White Sox @ Athletics
Phillies @ Mets
Cardinals @ Pirates
Astros @ Cubs
Rockies @ Dodgers
Brewers @ Marlins
Reds @ Diamondbacks
Update 4/11: This is addressed to the idiot who called me an idiot for not providing the gameday links for 4/10 here. This is a blog. It has daily posts. One of the daily posts will have the daily gameday links. For instance, here's today's, today being Wednesday, April 11, 2007.
Labels: gameday
Comments:
It nearly brought tears to me old eyes when I saw it working on my computer, just like the good old days...
Since you are obviously a man of exceptional skillz, what can you do to get the chat feature working? ;;
Houndcat
Since you are obviously a man of exceptional skillz, what can you do to get the chat feature working? ;;
Houndcat
# posted by 
: 4/09/2007 05:45:00 PM
: 4/09/2007 05:45:00 PM
Thank you so much!!! You have saved everyone!! If you can fix the top scoreboard that would be great if not still THANK YOU!!!
# posted by : 4/09/2007 07:01:00 PM
: 4/09/2007 07:01:00 PM
Not to downplay the idea, but isn't it just the current Gameday address but with the "/y2007/" changed to "/y2006/"?
# posted by : 4/09/2007 07:11:00 PM
: 4/09/2007 07:11:00 PM
Dan -- yes, that's largely true. However, because the size of the window displayed is a function of the onclick Javascript in the anchor (A) tag, it's a convenience to have that fixed, too. Since Gameday, old or new, disables the URL display, it's a somewhat more obscure process to edit it. On Firefox, that means expanding the window to expose some non-Flash space, and then right-clicking and selecting Page Info; you can then copy the address. But isn't it a lot nicer to not have to go to all that trouble? I know I prefer it this way.
THANKS, this is some stellar work. Nothing like seeing that "run-scoring play" when your guy is up to bat...fantasy baseball is right again.
# posted by : 4/09/2007 09:15:00 PM
: 4/09/2007 09:15:00 PM
this still sucks, the only reason I use game day is to see othe scores and to chat, this doesnt have either, I want to chat! Yours I do not want to use because you probally have it rigged to give us virus's or something
# posted by : 4/10/2007 03:23:00 PM
: 4/10/2007 03:23:00 PM
Whoever said someone bout viruses is a ****head and where are todays games, oh well, at least said, i had it for one day.
# posted by : 4/10/2007 07:27:00 PM
: 4/10/2007 07:27:00 PMNewer› ‹Older
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