Here’s what I am told:
You know how all the MLB websites kinda look the same? That’s because Major League Baseball Advanced Media runs them.
Obviously webpages are worked on advance. This very post you are reading was written yesterday.
MLBAM made the info go live before it was supposed to.
Some civilians noticed it. A fat guy blogged it. Some other folks wrote about it. The Mets found out about it from whatever source they saw it on…called MLBAM and it was taken down.
All makes sense and was what I figured.
I kinda find the mlb websites a little poor from a programmers stand point. Auto-play video and noises, and I always have trouble easily finding the information I want. (am I lobbying for a job here? well..maybe..heh). This early publish has happened before. Seems sloppy to me.
Ceetar I HATE the autoplay. HATE HATE HATE.
speaking as a programmer who once had a dream to have a job with MLBAM at one point a few years ago, the scenario of content going live before it was due is a very real scenario. it happens. i’ve been on their end of it once or twice myself.
since Ceetar brought up autoplay, usually, that’s not the programmer’s decisions. think of trying to test these pages with autoplay starting every time you refresh. and I hate it probably just as much as you do – and I know that MLB isn’t the only site guilty of using it. i just wish the cookie that remembers that you don’t like autoplay would work a little better and more universally. but i actually think it’s better designed than the sites for NHL, NBA, and NFL are.