If you’re a Dodgers fan who hasn’t been able to watch them in LA this year due to the Time Warner Cable debacle, you might be pleased to know that you’ll be able to catch the last couple of home series on free-to-air TV.
It’s a fucking disgrace that even paying cable subscribers can’t get access to the games in parts of the team’s market area. As the Consumerist website i linked to noted, this move might be related to the fact that many Americans, including Congresscritters, are increasingly wary of the proposed Time Warner/Comcast merger and its potential to leave consumers with even less choice in their cable and internet shopping.
Derek Jeter has had a great career but the ongoing blowjob is really without precedent in modern baseball history. It makes last year’s Mo Rivera lovefest look almost perfunctory. When the Blue Jays fell all over him to give him gifts, I was disgusted. He’s a great player who played for an opposing team. A nice message on the scoreboard (“Congratulations D. Jeter - NYY - 20 Years In the Major Leagues”) would have been more than enough. They spent more time slurping him off than they’ve ever done for, say, Devon White, who actually was a big part of the team winning the World Series twice.
I do not remember anything like this being done for a baseball player in my lifetime. They didn’t do this for Hank Aaron. Shit, I don’t think the NHL went this ballistic over Wayne Gretzky.
It’s no damn wonder baseball ratings on TV are down. They don’t know how to cover MLB anymore.
I don’t understand…what does that have to do with Derek Jeter?
Real dick move by Papelbon, and a good show by the Phillies to *not *stick up for him…though the cynic in me thinks they might have reacted differently if their record were 80-69 instead of 69-80…
I just read somewhere that we face 4 lefties this week. If that’s the case, we’ll probably see a lot of him this week since Mattingly stubbornly refuses to play Gordon (and Crawford) in those situations. Then again, Barney might get a couple of starts.
Nice to pick up another game on the gnats tonight.
I’m going out this evening, and i have to leave home in a few minutes, before the Baltimore game ends, but it looks like the Nats and the Orioles are both going to clinch their divisions on the same night.
Woohoo!
Looks like freeway teams will take the West, and beltway teams take the East. If KC manages to catch Detroit, we could have two Missouri teams taking the Central.