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Related: About this forumAnother Bud $elig "Fuck You" to Baseball Fans
Sunday's playoff game between the Tigers and A's can only be viewed on MLB-TV -- an upper tier, premium pay cable channel. Fans in the respective Detroit / S.F. Bay Area can tune-in on radio (often a better bet anyway), but forget about TV unless you want to subscribe to watch a grand total of two playoff games. Bruce Jenkins of the S.F. Chronicle calls it "Highway Robbery" and writes:
LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/MLB-s-latest-highway-robbery-3924177.php
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Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Even if I were rich, I wouldn't bother with this such-a-deal.
The idea used to be the rich could shut out the masses by manufacturing caviar instead of fish sticks. These days, the idea is that the rich can rip off other rich people and shut out the masses by marketing fish sticks as caviar.
If this turns out to be profitable, then it is because the rich are no smarter than rest of us. So much for thoughts Ayn Rand.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)No team owner should have ever been Commissioner.
Tommy Lasorda should have been Commissioner of Baseball.
Auggie
(31,174 posts)No reason for that in the playoffs except to keep Detroit/Oakland off primetime. Fuckers.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Just that many fewer people throwing stuff at their TVs out here.
I never heard of a sports league doing something like this, like NFL putting playoff games on NFL Network.
TZ
(42,998 posts)and its on at 1pm. On MLB Network. Thanks fuckhead Selig for making sure 3/4 of Washingtonians (including me) can't watch this game at all. Fuck you and your fucking preference for the fucking Yankee$$
I listened to A's radio last night while watching a muted telecast. It's so much better, even when it's just radio alone.
TBS announcers are about as lame as Brent Muffburger.
today, can't afford the distraction. Even 3pm would have been much better for me. BUT NOOOOO....
Auggie
(31,174 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)and be on TBS if those Bay Area teams had lost yesterday?
Blame them!