Yesterday, I attempted to login to MLB.TV for the Seattle/Minnesota game. I have Liriano on a few fantasy teams and I wanted to actually see if I had chosen wisely. The "new and improved" MLB.TV was essentially a disaster. It was slow, choppy and the video was of poor quality, but don't take my word for it. Check out the "Quality Questions" section of the MLB forums. That wasn't the annoying part. What chapped my ass was this. Paid shill Mark Newman thinks the new player is "great" and "crystal clear." You should have seen the look on my face when I saw this on the frontpage of MLB.com. It was a total 1984 moment. So, we're not even acknowledging the struggles of thousands of paid subscribers, but instead telling them that the service is great. Mark Newman, you just made the list.

On to the effing roundup...

In an effort to increase revenue, the LG cheersquad has started robbing banks. Joke, seriously, that's a joke. They're just marketing their new line of scarves...in April.

LG 3, Lotte 1
W - Shim Soo-chang (1-0), L - Cho Jang-hoon (0-1), S - Woo Gyu-min (1)

The story here was LG starting pitcher, Shim Soo-chang(102 pitches, 64 strikes). Shim worked 6 1/3 scoreless innings against a TOUGH Lotte lineup. He allowed 6 hits and 1 walk with 5 K's. He actually did get into a jam in the 4th inning with runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs, but a key baserunning mistake by Lee Dae-ho let him off the hook. LG leftfielder Lee Jin-yeong drove in LG's first run on an RBI single in the first inning. LG scored again in the 7th on an awful throwing error by Lotte's Kim Joo-chan. LG added an insurance run on Kwon Yong-kwan's 8th inning solo homer. Woo Gyu-min struck out 2 of the 3 batters he faced while recording his first save. Of the 9 pitches Woo threw, 8 were strikes.