Code:

#!/bin/bash
exec 2> /tmp/mlbeecon.log
set -x

#dt=`TZ=EST+24 date +%Y%m%d`
QBW_REMEMBER_ME="$1"
QBW_HOTSPOT_PRESS="$2";
QBW_ID="$3";
TAB=`echo "$QBW_REMEMBER_ME" | cut -f1 -d:`
LEAGUE=`echo "$QBW_REMEMBER_ME" | cut -f2 -d:`
FAVLONG=`echo "$QBW_REMEMBER_ME" | cut -f3 -d:`
PREVDATE=`echo "$QBW_REMEMBER_ME" | cut -f4 -d:`
DISPLAYDATE=`echo "$QBW_REMEMBER_ME" | cut -f5 -d:`
NEXTDATE=`echo "$QBW_REMEMBER_ME" | cut -f6 -d:`

remember_me()
{
                run-standalone.sh dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=oh.no.more.qbw /oh/no/more/qbw$QBW_ID oh.no.more.qbw.set_param_string string:"rememberMe" string:"$TAB:$LEAGUE:$FAVLONG:$PREVDATE:$DISPLAYDATE:$NEXTDATE" string:"";
}

#echo $TAB
#echo $LEAGUE
#echo $FAVLONG
#echo $PREVDATE
#echo $DISPLAYDATE
#echo $NEXTDATE


if [ "_$PREVDATE" == "_" -o $DISPLAYDATE == "_" -o "_$NEXTDATE" == "_" ]; then
        DISPLAYDATE=`TZ=EST+05EDT date +%Y%m%d`
        PREVDATE=`TZ=EST+29 date +%Y%m%d`
        NEXTDATE=`TZ=EST-19 date +%Y%m%d`
fi

case $QBW_HOTSPOT_PRESS in
[123])
        DISPLAYDATE=`TZ=EST+05EDT date +%Y%m%d`
        if [ "$QBW_HOTSPOT_PRESS" -ne "$TAB" ]; then
                remember_me
        fi
        TAB=$QBW_HOTSPOT_PRESS;
        ;;
esac

case $TAB in
1)
        wget -U " " -t 1 -T 10 -q -O - "http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/news?lang=EN&wjb" | awk -v fav="$FAVLONG" -v hi="yellow" -v oc='white' -v ec='gray' -- '
BEGIN {
        FS="";
        infoOk=0
}

/<a *href=[^>]*type=news/ {
        print "\n\n<span foreground=\"cyan\" font=\"bold 15\"></span>";
        x=split($0,m,"(<div class=\"ind[^\"]*\"[^>]*><a  class=\"inline\"[^>]*>)|(</a> </div>)");
        for (i=2;i<x-1;i++) {
                infoOk=1
                if (n%2==0)
                        c=oc;
                else
                        c=ec;
                gsub(/(<[^>]*>)+/,"",m[i]);
                if (m[i]!="") {
                        n++;
                        t=split(fav,fa,"[-|]");
                        for(f=1;f<=t;f++) {
#                               print f "-" fa[f] "-" m[i]
                                if (match(m[i],fa[f])) c=hi;
                        }
                        print "<b><span foreground=\""c"\">- "m[i]"</span></b>";
                }
        }
}

END {
        if (infoOk==0) print "<span foreground=\"red\" font=\"bold 17\">\n\n No Info Available</span>";
}'
        remember_me
        exit 0
        ;;
 2)
        case $QBW_HOTSPOT_PRESS in
        [47])
                DISPLAYDATE=$PREVDATE
                ;;
        [69])
                DISPLAYDATE=$NEXTDATE
                ;;
        esac
        wget -U " " -t 1 -T 10 -q -O - "http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/scoreboard?date=$DISPLAYDATE&lang=EN&wjb" | awk -v fav="$FAVLONG" -v hi="yellow" -v oc='white' -v ec='gray' -- '
BEGIN {
        FS="";
        infoOk=0
}

/<div id="game/ {
        print "<span font=\"bold 6\">\n\n\n</span>";
        match($0,/<\/a> \| [A-Z0-9 ]+/);
        print "<tt><span foreground=\"cyan\" font=\"bold 12\"> "substr($0,RSTART+7,6)"</span></tt>";
        match($0,/scoreboard\?date=[0-9]+/);
        pd=substr($0,RSTART+16,8)
        match($0,/ <a  href=\"scoreboard\?date=[0-9]+/);
        nd=substr($0,RSTART+27,8)
        print "PREVDATE"pd
        print "NEXTDATE"nd
        match($0,"> [\|] [^\|]+");
        x=split($0,m,"(<div id=\"game[^>]*><div class=\"ind[^>]*><a  href=\"/mlb/gamecast[^>]*>)|(</a></div></div>)");
        for(i=2;i<x;i++) {
                infoOk=1;
                if (n%2==0)
                        c=oc;
                else
                        c=ec;
                if (m[i]!="") {
                        n++;
                        t=split(fav,fa,"[\|\-]");
                        for(f=1;f<=t;f+=2) {
#                               print f "-" fa[f] "-" fa[f+1] "-" m[i]
                                if (match(m[i],fa[f])) c=hi;
                        }
                        split(m[i],p," ");
                        if (p[2]=="at")
                                printf "<tt><span font=\"bold 14\" foreground=\""c"\">      %3s @ %3s %s %s %s %s</span></tt>\n", p[1], p[3], p[4], p[5], p[6], p[7], p[8];
                        else
                                printf "<tt><span font=\"bold 14\" foreground=\""c"\">      %3s %2s-%-2s %3s %s %s %s</span></tt>\n", p[1], p[2], p[4], p[3], p[5], p[6], p[7];
                }
        }
}

END {
        if (infoOk==0) print "<span foreground=\"red\" font=\"bold 17\">\n\n No Info Available</span>";
}' | while read out
do
        if [ "`echo $out|cut -c1-8`" == "PREVDATE" ];then
                PREVDATE="`echo $out|cut -c9-16`"
        elif [ "`echo $out|cut -c1-8`" == "NEXTDATE" ];then
                NEXTDATE="`echo $out|cut -c9-16`"
                remember_me
        else echo "$out"
        fi
done
        exit 1
        ;;
3)
        if [ "$LEAGUE" == "AL" ]; then
                LG=7
                LEAGUE="NL"
        elif [ "$LEAGUE" == "NL" ]; then
                LG=8
                LEAGUE="WC"
        elif [ "$LEAGUE" == "WC" ]; then
                LG=9
                LEAGUE="AL"
        fi

        wget -U " " -t 1 -T 10 -q -O - "http://m.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?groupId=$LG&lang=EN&wjb" | awk -v fav="$FAVLONG" -v hi="yellow" -v lg="$LG" -v oc='red' -v ec='gray' -- '
BEGIN {
        FS="";
        if (lg==9) st="\n Wildcards";
        infoOk=0;
        wcc=-1;
        fontsize=12;
        blanks="";
}

/<a *href="standings/ {
        print "\n\n<tt><span foreground=\"cyan\" font=\"bold 12\">"st"</span></tt>";
        match($0,"<table.*</table>");
        q = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH);
        gsub(/(<[^>]*>)+/, "|", q);
        x = split(q, m, "|");
        for(i = 2; i < x; i += 5) {
                infoOk = 1;
                if (m[i]=="AL EAST" || m[i]=="AL CENTRAL" || m[i]=="AL WEST" || m[i]=="NL EAST" || m[i]=="NL CENTRAL" || m[i]=="NL WEST" || m[i]=="AL" || m[i]=="NL") {
                        wcc=0;
                        c=oc;
                } else {
                        c=ec;
                }
                t=split(fav,fa,"[-|]");
                for(f=1;f<=t;f+=2) {
#                       print f "-" fa[f] "-" fa[f+1] "-" m[i]
                        if (match(m[i],fa[f+1])) c=hi;
                }
                if (lg==9) {
                        if (wcc>=0&&wcc<9) wcc++;
                        else continue;
                };
                if ( match(m[i+1],/\([0-9]+\)/) ) {m[i+1]=m[i] substr(m[i+1],RSTART,RLENGTH);i++;}
                printf("<tt><span font=\"bold %d\" foreground=\"%s\"> %s%-15s %3s %3s %5s %5s</span></tt>\n", fontsize, c, blanks, m[i], m[i+1], m[i+2], m[i+3], m[i+4]);
        }
}

END {
        if (infoOk==0) print "<span foreground=\"red\" font=\"bold 17\">\n\n No Info Available</span>";
}'
        remember_me
        exit 2
        ;;
*)
        echo "UNKNOWN TAB $TAB"
        ;;
esac