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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Knicks fan creates special and heartwarming connection with his sister by using his voice
Before we tell you the rest of the story, do yourself a favor: Go to your phone, click on Instagram, and type this account: @itshannahsview. It’s OK. The rest of this column will be waiting for you when you get back. If you get back. Because if you’re like me, you’re going to want to … Read more
They don’t make ‘em like Howie Rose anymore — and his retirement is a loss for broadcasting sanity
Not that individual tastes should serve as a scientific meter, but for years I’ve received missives from Yankees fans who wished that Howie Rose was theirs. Rose, who will pack it in after this season at age 72 — and after a serious health issue two years ago — had a natural or conditioned sense … Read more
Sports are reaching once-unthinkable levels of insanity
Being a beneficent fellow, I to declare this Benefit of the Doubt Sunday. So let’s say that Adam Silver was blindsided by this; he had no idea that the NBA’s Hawks had declared March 16 a “cultural” salute game to an “iconic” strip joint in Atlanta, replete with a vulgar, N-word chanting rapper and the … Read more
A new baseball season brings the same old insufferable viewer experience
Farmers Almanac spring forecast: “A deep, dark and foreboding sky lingers in the approaching MLB atmosphere. Fans are advised to be prepared to take cover and shelter in basements or whatever room is closest to the ground to discourage jumping from windows to escape the scene.” Another season of telecasts — free TV, cable TV, … Read more
NBC’s convoluted maze of Olympics coverage comes with one big undignified sell job
I wish I held the patent on the patently absurd. The themes for NBC’s Olympics telecasts have been well-established: 1) Don’t miss what’s coming up next, to the exclusion what’s going on now; 2) In sustaining the theme of its Super Bowl telecast, purchase NBC’s Peacock — immediately. And there will be another generous scoop … Read more
Robert Duvall captured the essence of journalism in movies better than anyone
There was a hilarious short bit on my Reels feed the other day which showed a husband and wife watching “The Pitt,” with the husband — an ER doctor himself — providing a running commentary, either predicting the diagnoses of Dr. Robby a few seconds before they arrive, or critiquing various and sundry lab orders, … Read more
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
Exclusive | ‘Hoosiers’ writer Angelo Pizzo is ready for Indiana football’s Hollywood ending
Angelo Pizzo will be forever linked with Indiana basketball. But he has been an Indiana football fan as long as he can remember. Source link #Exclusive #Hoosiers #writer #Angelo #Pizzo #ready #Indiana #footballs #Hollywood
Sports broadcasting’s parroting problem is bordering on the shameful
OK, time’s up. After 30 or so years, it’s time to end the Idiots’ Picnic, time to go home, time to remove the rehearsed-then-parroted nonsense from sports telecasts. First one that must go is “transfer portal.” That’s a crock. Those are, in fact, mostly NIL price-tagged signings of college athletes without academic credentials. They are … Read more
It’s time to stop the pandering as our sports sink to more ridiculous lows
I’m not calling Troy Aikman a liar. Not entirely. Just because I didn’t believe what he claimed he enjoyed — “loved” — doesn’t mean he was lying; it was more another case of a broadcaster pandering; telling us that he and we should favor acts laying our sports so low as to be unrecognizable. Monday … Read more
ESPN’s Ryan Clark is delusional with race-baiting Sherrone Moore take
Once again, we’re left to remind the double-dealers, race hustlers and the ignorantly wishful that the successful pursuit of equality is a fool’s mission if one chooses inequality as their path. And, outside of The Rev. Al Sharpton’s amen-reliant but diminishing numbers of protesters who remain confident in the come-hither presence of TV news cameras … Read more
The week in sports news is shocking — but only if you ignore the obvious
Do me a favor. The minute you find out where we report to surrender, let me know. Well, it’s only Friday, and already another week of warped wonder. With Pete Alonso off to Baltimore — it’s now LFGO! — Mets fans will still be more than welcomed to bet on Alonso’s No. 20 in Steve … Read more
Crude Craig Carton is back on WFAN — now he can return to being what he really is
With his return to the vast radio wasteland that is WFAN, Craig Carton has been released from a prison for a second time, having left the bright lights of his Fox Sports show from which he faded from view and his ill-gained fame. Now he can again return to being a crude, name-calling, excrement-reliant junk-talker … Read more
Professional morons broadcasting football games keep flaunting useless numbers
I suspect there’s a reason they don’t manufacture brass knuckles for fish, but I just can’t put my finger on it. Source link #Professional #morons #broadcasting #football #games #flaunting #useless #numbers
College basketball’s mismatches are just senseless cruelty
There are times when visceral responses — those that instantly flow from the gut — outsmart the contemplative responses. Source link #College #basketballs #mismatches #senseless #cruelty
‘Diva-like’ Pat McAfee is in another ESPN war
The reason ESPN brought in Pat McAfee is the same reason the polarizing entertainer is at war with his coworkers. In a video posted to his Instagram story on Tuesday, McAfee addressed comments that were written about him on a post from the official “College GameDay” account — a show of which he is a … Read more
When it comes to MLB broadcasts, less of John Smoltz would be more
Enough! Enough! Enough! I know I’ve been down this path so often I’ve worn it to a highway, but in the fading light of sweet mercy, enough! How can Fox possibly be so detached from a major sport, an expensive deal and the best interests of its audience, advertisers and mental health advocates, than to … Read more
Sports broadcasts are steadfast in their refusal to just let us enjoy the game
Don’t know if nearly 50 years on this job qualifies me as a sportscasting historian, but I do know this: There has never been a time in my life when televised sports have been worse, more excessively senseless and for no good reason other than negligent or dopey execs who think that we neither want … Read more
MLB would be much better served showcasing fundamentals over worthless self-aggrandizement
Why continue to treat baseball fans — or try to attract new ones — with images of rank public immodesty rather than with genuinely skillful baseball? Source link #MLB #served #showcasing #fundamentals #worthless #selfaggrandizement