IUIuz·Jun 17, 2026
Super cool! I used https://github.com/paaatrick/playball a few times to follow games, looking forward for updates.
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paaatrick / playball
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Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal
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Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal
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Beautiful. I love it! Dark mode is beautiful. So very well done. This went right to the top of my bookmark list. Only constructive feedback would be if it can better fill a…
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7 sourcesThe lock file is 12 times larger than the entire source.
git clone -q https://github.com/paaatrick/playball.git
cd playball
echo $(du -bs package-lock.json | cut -f1) / $(du -bs src | cut -f1) | bc -l
In Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminalPlayball – Watch MLB games from a terminal
353 points · Open discussionPlayball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal
6 points · Open discussionI might get laughed at for this (because it's extreme overkill), but I use Vue. I'm not a web developer at all by day. One time I dabbled in some react and some vue and I wish I had chosen react for this tbh. However, I had previously built something in Vue that sort of looked like this so I ran with that template and now there is no looking back.
While a huge framework is overkill, it will let me expand in the future if I want to do that. It will also allow me to build more dynamic minimal things - for example I'd love to have a web version of [1] for our local sports teams, but I'm still trying to figure out how to get free sports data.
[1] https://github.com/paaatrick/playball
In Things I don’t want to do to grow my side projectBeautiful. I love it! Dark mode is beautiful. So very well done. This went right to the top of my bookmark list.
Only constructive feedback would be if it can better fill a normal 16:9 desktop monitor - it looks optimized for mobile, which is great - but it's too small and narrow for keeping open on the PC
If you like MLB - this reminds me of Playball which runs in the terminal.
https://github.com/paaatrick/playball
In Plain Text SportsPlayball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal
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