MLB Extra Innings

[mosox]

I don't disagree there are more important issues, but Congress has regulated baseball for a long time, granting MLB a unique monopoly. Speaking for myself, I would like to see the end of terrorism, victory for our troops, a cure for cancer, affordable health care, and the chance to watch the Red Sox in my state without having my arm twisted by an industry that enjoys the rewards of having no competition in a capitalistic society.

[ANiMAL]

I don't disagree there are more important issues' date=' but Congress has regulated baseball for a long time, granting MLB a unique monopoly. Speaking for myself, I would like to see the end of terrorism, victory for our troops, a cure for cancer, affordable health care, and the chance to watch the Red Sox in my state without having my arm twisted by an industry that enjoys the rewards of having no competition in a capitalistic society.[/quote']

 

cheers

[CrespoBlows]

Companies did compete for baseball's TV contract, DirectTV won, they get the contract. Fair? Probably not, but I see nothing wrong with it.

 

You can buy MLB.TV, or send a message to MLB by not watching the sport at all. MLB is a business, and it cost a lot of money to put that product onto the field. If they want to tap into more revenue, more power to them. You still have regional coverage of baseball, for a reasonable price.

[mosox]

If baseball wants media companies to compete for its product then Congress should drop the protections it gives MLB (no other sport has them) and allow another league to compete with them and set up teams in its cities. But that's competition baseball doesn't want.

[RedSoxRooter]

Actually, this is exactly where I want my tax dollars spent. I finally get to see my taxes at work doing something for ME. Keep it up!

[rician blast]

I don't disagree there are more important issues' date=' but Congress has regulated baseball for a long time, granting MLB a unique monopoly. Speaking for myself, I would like to see the end of terrorism, victory for our troops, a cure for cancer, affordable health care, and the chance to watch the Red Sox in my state without having my arm twisted by an industry that enjoys the rewards of having no competition in a capitalistic society.[/quote']

 

very noble wishes, my man. I too have some things I'd like to see:

 

I'd like to see a global solution to overpopulation

 

I'd like to see alternative energy sources become economical in the next few years

 

And I'd like to see Jessica Biel lieing on my bed saying "give it to me hard, you pagan God"

[Gom]

Go get Directv, problem solved. Screw cable.

[Gom]

very noble wishes, my man. I too have some things I'd like to see:

 

I'd like to see a global solution to overpopulation

 

I'd like to see alternative energy sources become economical in the next few years

 

And I'd like to see Jessica Biel lieing on my bed saying "give it to me hard, you pagan God"

 

I actually wonder which of these scenarios is most likely to occur in the next few years. This has been bothering me for the last 15 minutes.

[mosox]

Go get Directv' date=' problem solved. Screw cable.[/quote']

 

I have underground utilites and have never had a problem with cable. When I've watched the NFL over someone's house or at a bar, there is rain fade and interruptions.

Again, this isn't life and death, but it is a shame, and I know baseball doesn't care. My son was just beginning to enjoy the Sox games last season and the west coast games that came on after. Most businesses have to weigh short term gain against long term effect, and I think MLB this time took a money grab at the expense of limiting it's availability to fans.

[Mr Crunchy]

And I'd like to see Jessica Biel lieing on my bed saying "give it to me hard, you pagan God"

 

god i admie you and your selfless commitment to the good of mankind james

people

give jim kudos for being there for mankind

 

i got pissed when they had congressional hearings on steroids during wartime

this is a bit different as its about communication,fair trade and bargaining in good faith

 

why would bball whose popularity in american children is at an all time low put their product in a market that is the least viewed??

the money was either wayyyyyyyyy over cables bid or its a bag job

 

with murdoch involved??

ya

[RedSoxRooter]

Go get Directv' date=' problem solved. Screw cable.[/quote']

 

I can't. Dishes are not allowed. I have to frickin move, change my frickin life, move from a place I love just to watch a bunch of steroid freaks? Just to help the greedy owners pay the greedy players? Who all work to feed the greedy networks who charge me out the ass?

 

Fine, I'm doing it. But don't ask me to be happy about it. f***er.

[Taliesin]

And I'd like to see Jessica Biel lieing on my bed saying "give it to me hard, you pagan God"

 

god i admie you and your selfless commitment to the good of mankind james

people

give jim kudos for being there for mankind

 

i got pissed when they had congressional hearings on steroids during wartime

this is a bit different as its about communication,fair trade and bargaining in good faith

 

why would bball whose popularity in american children is at an all time low put their product in a market that is the least viewed??

the money was either wayyyyyyyyy over cables bid or its a bag job

 

with murdoch involved??

ya

 

It makes no business sense. Short or long-term. This isn't about morality or an unalienable right to watch baseball...because for years those who lived out of market...had nothing. It's available. I want my MTV. That ain't workin. That's the way you do it. Short-sighted from what I can see. Kids aren't watching or playing baseball anymore. They are barely getting outside. Didn't grow up the way you and I did....with the game in the blood and no transfusion going to take it out. I'm angry at the flippant way this game I love is being treated. The most hard core fans in all of sports. We will be a dying breed. Clearly they are flush w/ cash "right now"

 

Nouveau Riche. Do not understand the "culture" and if you don't understand the culture, you win no war but briefly.

[ANiMAL]

dishes are very inconvenient to ppl who live in apartments that forbid them

this sucks

 

im with RedSoxRooter on this one

[CrespoBlows]

dishes are very inconvenient to ppl who live in apartments that forbid them

this sucks

 

im with RedSoxRooter on this one

 

MLB.TV?

[ANiMAL]

when it comes down to watching a 11 inch screen with a crappy picture or a 30 inch with a great picture with a couch in front of it - i think id prefer the 30 inch tv

[example1]

Does anyone know how hard (possible) it is to hook a computer up to a television screen as an AUX or some such thing?

[jacksonianmarch]

not too hard if you have the right cables. Just like hooking up a PS2 or XBox.

[RedSoxRooter]

Does anyone know how hard (possible) it is to hook a computer up to a television screen as an AUX or some such thing?

 

Svideo out on your computer video card to your tv Svideo in. The cord costs a lot, the picture looks like s*** and there's lag depending on how long the cord is.

 

And... should something blow out your video card (like a power surge) it could blow out your TV too. It happened to me 3 years ago. Just an FYI.

 

If there's a better way, let me know. But it will look like s*** anyway because MLB.tv enlarged looks like s***.

[Dana Kiecker]

i onced hooked up a friend with a 300kg woman.. it wasnt a pretty picture

 

BTW.. just hooked up the DTV.. biyatches

[TheKilo]

i onced hooked up a friend with a 300kg woman.. it wasnt a pretty picture

 

BTW.. just hooked up the DTV.. biyatches

 

 

LOL OMG CUTTING EDGE

[Dana Kiecker]

under your skin sunshine?

 

drip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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drip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

open your legs

[Dana Kiecker]

Im not sure if i understand.. why cant you just get NESN on directv?

[mosox]

Keeping hope alive. Cable TV is still negociating.

 

From Hollywood Reporter

 

By Paul J. Gough

 

April 2, 2007

 

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball over the weekend extended the deadline for negotiations on the Extra Innings package with both In Demand and Echostar.

 

MLB had originally given the two companies until Saturday, the day before the beginning of the regular season, to come to terms over the out-of-market package that both had carried until the end of last season. But that deadline was extended until Sunday and perhaps into Monday to try to work a deal out although it wasn't clear whether one would be forged with either Echostar, the parent company of Dish Network, or In Demand, which is the negotiating company for big MSOs Cox, Time Warner Cable and Comcast.

 

"Talks are still ongoing," a MLB spokeswoman said mid-afternoon Sunday. She declined to detail the talks further.

 

Another source said the parties hoped to wrap up a deal by Monday but that there were "no assurances."

 

MLB in early March had reached an exclusive deal with DirecTV worth a reported $700 million over seven years. MLB agreed to extend for three weeks a negotiating window with In Demand and EchoStar to match the DirecTV terms -- which would be signficantly less financially without an exclusive -- and commit to carrying The Baseball Channel in a similar amount of cable and satellite households when the channel launches in 2009.

 

 

DirecTV committed to carrying the network in about 15 million households on its basic tier; it also received an ownership stake.

 

The MLB-DirecTV deal hasn't escaped notice from Washington, where the FCC has asked for more information and lawmakers including Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., have asked MLB and the companies to come to some sort of agreement for the good of displaced baseball fans.

 

Kerry got agreement last week from MLB President/COO Bob DuPuy and In Demand president Robert Jacobson for a face-to-face meeting ahead of Saturday's deadline.

[ANiMAL]

im pretty pissed about not being able to see the sox tomorrow

[example1]

Personally I think this whole thing is a huge f***ing joke. Excuse my language but I (like many of you) have been a faithful MLB fan for a long time. I paid my 150 or whatever it was for EI, PLUS my 15 a month or whatever for MLB.TV. I can't put up a dish at my apartment building and I don't think I should have to move just to watch baseball.

 

MLB Mosaic is a joke, it continually freezes and the pictures are crappy. I have a high-end computer and it is slow to load too. Plus, who really wants to watch a game on their computer anyway? I think it is craziness and pretty inexcusable by MLB. One of my favorite pasttimes was coming home after a long day of work and flipping back and forth between 7 or 8 games at once, watching my fantasy guys, etc., Now it is like pulling teeth and I can't even come online to comment at the same time very easily. I hate it that I'm addicted to baseball, otherwise I'd tell them to F* themselves and become one of the 200 million people who have already dropped the sport in favor of football. (sorry, I'm grumpy!)

[HeadOfSoxNation]

Personally I think this whole thing is a huge f***ing joke. Excuse my language but I (like many of you) have been a faithful MLB fan for a long time. I paid my 150 or whatever it was for EI, PLUS my 15 a month or whatever for MLB.TV. I can't put up a dish at my apartment building and I don't think I should have to move just to watch baseball.

 

MLB Mosaic is a joke, it continually freezes and the pictures are crappy. I have a high-end computer and it is slow to load too. Plus, who really wants to watch a game on their computer anyway? I think it is craziness and pretty inexcusable by MLB. One of my favorite pasttimes was coming home after a long day of work and flipping back and forth between 7 or 8 games at once, watching my fantasy guys, etc., Now it is like pulling teeth and I can't even come online to comment at the same time very easily. I hate it that I'm addicted to baseball, otherwise I'd tell them to F* themselves and become one of the 200 million people who have already dropped the sport in favor of football. (sorry, I'm grumpy!)

 

This sums up EXACTLY how I feel...anyone who says that MLB.tv is an adequate substitute for Extra Innings (which is the arguement that MLB is trying to make) is crazy. That's like saying a Kia Sephia is an acceptable substitute for a BMW 5-series. I have a laptop that set me back 3K and a desktop that was only slightly less than that, and MLB.tv looks like s*** on both of them.

 

I want to say, out of principle, that I won't get Extra Innings even if it DOES become available just because MLB tried to sell us all out. I want to say that...but I won't say that...

[AlexanderTheGreat13]

Personally I think this whole thing is a huge f***ing joke. Excuse my language but I (like many of you) have been a faithful MLB fan for a long time. I paid my 150 or whatever it was for EI, PLUS my 15 a month or whatever for MLB.TV. I can't put up a dish at my apartment building and I don't think I should have to move just to watch baseball.

 

MLB Mosaic is a joke, it continually freezes and the pictures are crappy. I have a high-end computer and it is slow to load too. Plus, who really wants to watch a game on their computer anyway? I think it is craziness and pretty inexcusable by MLB. One of my favorite pasttimes was coming home after a long day of work and flipping back and forth between 7 or 8 games at once, watching my fantasy guys, etc., Now it is like pulling teeth and I can't even come online to comment at the same time very easily. I hate it that I'm addicted to baseball, otherwise I'd tell them to F* themselves and become one of the 200 million people who have already dropped the sport in favor of football. (sorry, I'm grumpy!)

I'm with you 100%.

[example1]

This sums up EXACTLY how I feel...anyone who says that MLB.tv is an adequate substitute for Extra Innings (which is the arguement that MLB is trying to make) is crazy. That's like saying a Kia Sephia is an acceptable substitute for a BMW 5-series. I have a laptop that set me back 3K and a desktop that was only slightly less than that, and MLB.tv looks like s*** on both of them.

 

I want to say, out of principle, that I won't get Extra Innings even if it DOES become available just because MLB tried to sell us all out. I want to say that...but I won't say that...

 

Can't you just turn to your right and tell Big Papi about our struggles?

 

I'm sure he would help out if he could.

[Cocos Disciples]

MLB has a deal to keep Extra Innings on cable.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2826280

[ANiMAL]

thank god...i dont think i can take gameday much longer