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MLB 2014: I paid the $20 mil posting fee for the right to start this thread

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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
That sounds right, although I don't remember the exact reason.

There are a lot of things about baseball that have somewhat gone by the wayside. My favorite memory as a kid was listening to games on a transistor radio while playing catch with my dad in the backyard. I don't remember the last time I saw two people playing catch that weren't getting ready for a game, and I can count on one hand how many times my transistor radio has been used in the last decade.
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What's a transistor radio? Seriously, I still remember listening to Mazeroski's home run on a clandestine transistor radio at school.

Priceless said:
If they didn't get ratings, ESPN wouldn't keep broadcasting them. They aren't in business to throw away money. Those of us in the market don't like it when Fox and ESPN come in and take weekend games away because that precludes NESN from airing it. Most Boston fans would rather have Orsillo (and Yankee fans would rather have Kay) than whoever ESPN has in the booth now.
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This. At least we aren't treated to Tim McCarver any more. Not only do national broadcasts start later, but they take longer. So a Yankees-Red Sox game that would normally start at 7 and end at 11:00 now starts at 8:00 and ends at 12:30.
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
If there are one more fan of either of those two teams, MLB acts as if that means there are NO fans of the other teams. Stupid and it will come back to bite them at some point since they have abandoned the fan of the sport in general.
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http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/broadcasts/national.jsp
Get ready for ESPN to pimp the Cardinals along with the Red Sox and Yankees.

FOX is also a little heavy on Yankees/RedSox (due to the ratings grab), but Fox Sports 1 seems more balanced.

MLB network is pretty fair across the board. ESPN or FOX aren't going to air a Cleveland Indians at Toronto Blue Jays game, let alone on a Thursday night, but MLB Net is.
 
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Now its the cell phone instead of the transistor radio. I've worked on home projects inside and out listening to games via the mlb internet package.

Grandson is 5, so now we'll be playing catch while listening to a game. Though with the rotator cuff injury I can't throw worth squat.
 
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Priceless said:
If they didn't get ratings, ESPN wouldn't keep broadcasting them. They aren't in business to throw away money. Those of us in the market don't like it when Fox and ESPN come in and take weekend games away because that precludes NESN from airing it. Most Boston fans would rather have Orsillo (and Yankee fans would rather have Kay) than whoever ESPN has in the booth now.
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As I posted I know WHY the programming choices are made, but the strategy IMO is wrong. By showcasing two teams 90% of the time it makes it appear that 90% of the fans who do not root for a hometown team root only for the Yankees or the Red Sox. This is simply not true. And I'm not alone. TV audiences for MLB games shrink year after year. Some media commentators (it isn't just me) have noted this is because of the homogenous nature of the broadcasting choices of the major programmers. They attract no casual fans of the sport. None. TV rating are all about appealing to a wide variety of people. Do you think 50% of the viewing audience can name the center on either Super Bowl team? No, but they get the ratings because they attract the casual fan. Half the time I don't bother to check anymore who is going to be on an ESPN or MLB or TBS broadcast because I assume it is one of two teams, and when I stumble across one that isn't, I am likely to land there and watch it. I have followed and studied this sport intimately for 4 decades and I can assure anyone that before the advent of the 500 channel universe I knew as many fans of the Reds, the Giants or the Phillies as I did the Yankees or Red Sox, and I didn't grow up anywhere near any of those teams. The two people I knew who were fans of those teams years ago are now dead and I believe in the last decade I have met two people who were fans of either team, and one grew up on Long Island.
 
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redsox are 3 outs away from being no-hit (it seems. really WAS a hit by papi, but the homer scorer called it an error :p)
 
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Just saw the replay. That was a hit. No question.

Apparently they're checking with Elias Sports Bureau on the call, per MLB Network.

EDIT: Mitch Williams is being a horse's *** on purpose trying to tell us that was an error on MLB.
 
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Doesn't matter now. Ortiz strokes a sharp single through the shift to bust it up with 2 out in the 9th.
 
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I would have laughed like hell had he channeled Ted Williams and bunted one down the 3rd base line for a single.
 
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no shift and that's a routine ground out
 
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mookie1995 said:
no shift and that's a routine ground out
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Channeling my inner Doyle Alexander here, I always want my fielders playing straight away. I don't see any credible evidence that the number of runs scored per team is affected by it. The only three seasons in my lifetime where the average was over 5 per team were 1996, 1999 and 2000. Plenty of shifting went on in the 90s and the drop since then can be associated with the decline in steroid and amphetamine use more easily than any defensive tactics IMO. I'm talking radical shifting here and not some basic defensive repositioning based on lefty/righty or pitcher type.
 
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Tim Kurkjian was on Sportscenter talking about the "hit." To paraphrase, he agreed with the official scorer's argument that according to the rule, it was an error as non-extraordinary effort was needed for that catch. However, he also said that the way the game is normally scored in today's game that is a hit 99/100 times. Also said he would like to see scorer's start to change that type of play to an error. I'd have to agree with him. Obviously there are the "triangle" plays where no one can reach it, but there are also plays where it's just a lack of communication that causes the ball to drop, like last night.
 
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The play in question has been officially changed to a hit.
 
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Hammer said:
The play in question has been officially changed to a hit.
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Man, how much would that suck to celebrate a no-no and have it taken away by the official scorers at a later date. I wonder if they would have changed it he actually completed the no hitter.
 
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Review system needs a change. Managers shouldn't be able to go out and stall for 30 seconds while someone in the clubhouse watches a replay and then tells the bench coach who gives a thumps up/down to the manager on the field.
 
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