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I'm mad as ... oh, not the movie? MLB.com has a feature on how the new MLB network was built.

Now we have to learn how to drive it," Tony Petitti said on a December tour of the MLB Network's renovated startup facility.

That is what it feels like with less than a week to go before the largest network launch in cable television history. It has been a dizzying blur of design and demolition, creativity and construction, recruiting and rehearsing.

Now, nearly two years after the initial talks about what it all might look and feel like, the moment of truth is almost here. The MLB Network will greet you with its Hot Stove Show at 6 p.m. ET on Jan. 1, starting with an introductory message from the people who are about to change your world (free) in a way no other 24-hour sports network can.

Yeah, no one's going to be watching the Rose Bowl around that time. Anyway, head over to that link for a time line and everything.

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