MLB’s greed is naked — and has a complicit partner
To hell with fans, especially in NYC, the nation’s largest TV market in which fans are mistaken for dollar signs. Source link #MLBs #greed #naked #complicit #partner
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Tupac Shakur being honored with Orioles bobblehead another example of MLB’s misguidedness
When I pause to consider what the desperate state of Rob Manfred’s MLB would be had it not instituted Gay Pride Games, I shudder at the consequences. Many have been the times when gay friends and loved ones threatened to never spend another dime to attend a big league game and/or cancel their expensive cable … Read more
NBC nearing $600 million deal for MLB’s ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ package
Major League Baseball is in advanced talks with NBC to ink a three-year rights deal for the network to carry games. The deal would see NBC shell out nearly $200 million annually and would see the network carry MLB games on Sunday nights, the Wall Street Journal reported. MLB games would air on the broadcast … Read more
MLB’s arrogant ‘gift’ to fans is costly in more ways than one
Having missed two columns to my annual formaldehyde blood spins, let’s not waste time writing the pithy. Catch-up formation on “Hut.” (Hmm, wonder where “hut” came from.) Hut! It’s all a con continued: When MLB introduced interleague play, thus further homogenizing the two leagues, “Bottom Line” Bud Selig proudly boasted that “it’s a gift to … Read more
MLB’s abysmal playoff coverage somehow finds a way to hit a new low
OK, so you run a 75-year-old business that once thrived but has been losing popularity among your most devoted, longtime customers and their progeny. What do you do? 1) Ignore those customers’ complaints and advice? 2) Treat those complaints as quickly, smartly and long-term logically as possible? 3) Make your product even more difficult and … Read more
‘American Idol’ winner apologizes after keeping hat on while performing national anthem at MLB’s Home Run Derby
“American Idol” winner Iam Tongi apologized after he forgot to remove his hat while singing the national anthem. Tongi took the field for the special moment on Monday at the 2023 MLB Home Run Derby at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. The musician won the 21st season of “American Idol” in May. “First try at singing the National Anthem. … Read more