MLB eGraphs... Oy.

[200lbhockeyplayer]

Clearly the "unforeseen obstacles" had something to do with little interest in a comically lame idea.

Blog posts about how employees buy bananas at Costco to make baby food...while "working", announcements of signing legendary prospects like Cody Buckel to the "team," C level Olympians, etc...

Oh yeah...color me shocked.

Looking at their Facebook page, lunatics...err...people who actually paid for some of this stuff haven't received their "item" either. At least their "office" looks like little more than a hotel conference room with a few random chair and tables thrown around.

Fly by night, but at least they had to courtesy to announce they were taking themselves out back behind the woodshed.

 

[Spiral Stairs]

My six-year-old son loves the eGraph he got from Michael Morse. It's framed and contains a personalized message reminding him to keep his eye on the ball in Little League -- a message I'd requested. And the similar voice message was absolutely enchanting for my son.

He could not care less about whether the message was in ink or pixels, and the price was very reasonable.

I was actually very impressed with the product and the value.

The company was involved in some intellectual property disputes about the technology; it very well could be that the shutdown is related to those disputes.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

It was likely Michael Morse's digitized voice coded to say those words. With all due respect, you pulled a ruse on your 6 year old boy.

 

[SteelBrad]

It was likely Michael Morse's digitized voice coded to say those words. With all due respect, you pulled a ruse on your 6 year old boy.

No need to include the "with all due respect" in that statement. There was no respect in you writing that.


Collecting Sean Burnett & Bobby Bonilla!

 

[Spiral Stairs]

If that was a digitized voice, eGraphs possesses the most advanced voice-generation technology imaginable. It it is a lengthy (30-second or so) recording that contains all the quirks, flaws, and intonations of speech, and which uses my son's name along with the particular message I asked to be conveyed.

And I'm not sure whether you failed to read the technical discussion on the eGraphs site carefully or if you are accusing them of outright fraud. The website states that voice samples are used for authentication -- i.e., to ensure that the athlete, rather than someone else, has made the recording. Nowhere does it state that the recording is digitally generated -- which would be quite a technical coup and, given the quality of the recording, far beyond the sophistication of a small outfit like this.

 

[Card Magnet]

When I play Madden with a created character, Phil Simms says my actual name and tells me what I just did on the field. Cris Collinsworth used to do the same, and then he would laugh and mock me when I threw a pick.

I guess them staying in business wouldn't really hurt me, but I really hated the concept. I for one won't miss them.

Sent from the FCB Droid app, which means I'm probably on the crapper.

 

[Spiral Stairs]

You guys can decide for yourselves -- I'm attaching the eGraph image, and here is the audio file that came with it: http://www.filedropper.com/1190michael-morseaudio

Note that my son's name is Charlie, that I'd asked for the message to include a reminder about keeping his eye on the ball, and that the message includes a reference to the inscription.

So either (1) this company -- a small outfit that, as someone else said in this thread, appeared to operate out of a conference room -- possessed truly extraordinary voice generation software that would be the envy of far larger and more advanced tech companies, (2) it was just a big fraud (on users, athletes, and MLB/MLBPA, which sold them licenses) and they had a staff of skilled voice impersonators, or (3) Michael Morse actually did this.

The simplest solution is usually the correct one.

 

[A_Pharis]

If someone was impersonating him with that inscription, then he should be angry that they'd use "you eye" instead of "your eye".

 

[mredsox89]

I'm an idiot

 

[Bob Loblaw]

https://www.egraphs.com/

That was quick. Egraphs has been shut down

That's what this entire page has been discussing.

 

[mredsox89]

That's what this entire page has been discussing.

Well then, I'm a moron. I saw someone tweet it like it was breaking news, and I knew there was a thread on here but hadn't read through it. Whoops

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Well then, I'm a moron. I saw someone tweet it like it was breaking news, and I knew there was a thread on here but hadn't read through it. Whoops

Not a moron. We've all made that same mistake.