Apple got the rights to Friday Night Baseball and have been streaming it on Apple TV+. It is two games on Friday afternoon and evening in the US and I think available anywhere you can get Apple TV+. I've been watching all the games so it's been like 4 weeks.

Some of the technicals:

• It's kind of non-intuitive to get to the FNB section. I have to go to Apple TV+ then browse down the main page and click on the FNB banner.
• If you're watching it live there are no DVR features. So you can't skip back or if you came in late start from the beginning.
• Shortly after a game is over you can watch the replay. It still has commercials but now you can skip forward and back or scan.
• The next day you can see the games in the past games section. Unfortunately the banner titles include the scores so you have to be careful to scan just the teams and don't scan a bit down and see the scores. I think past games don't have commercials.

Now for the broadcasts themselves. There are two broadcasting team. The first one has varied more and I guess they're trying to get that team right. The second team I like better: Stephen Nelson (play-by-play), Katie Nolan (analyst), initially Hunter Pence (analyst) for two games and now a second former baseball player so not sure if that spot is supposed to rotate, and Heidi Watney (sideline reporter). Nelson keeps up the chatter. Nolan has done a lot of sports shows but is not baseball experienced so brings a newcomer's perspective. Then having a baseball player for behind the scenes thoughts is nice.

People have commented that the broadcast is very clean and I haven't really watched sports for a few years. But yes, there isn't a constantly on bottom info scroll with game scores and stats. The info comes in subtly, like good Closed Caption text then fades away. They do have analytics stats like % change this batter will get on base or get an RBI which, since I don't know how those numbers are generated, seems guess work.

A couple of Apple additions: There is a Siri question segment. There are walk-up songs for each batter and walk-up playlists you can listen to on Apple Music.

Included in the FNB package is a daily show and you can also watch classic baseball games. I have not watched the daily show because I don't want to watch a daily show (that's too much tv). There is a selection of classic games going back to 1977, about three a year so not really that many games. You get the teams, date, and short one-line summary about why the game is a classic (which means spoilers but otherwise how would you pick a game to watch).

Overall I'm pretty happy with Friday Night Baseball. A couple of games is not too much baseball and you can watch some classic games and daily news.