Another Bud $elig "Fuck You" to Baseball Fans

[Auggie]

Sunday's playoff game between the Tigers and A's can only be viewed on MLB-TV -- an upper tier, premium pay cable channel. Fans in the respective Detroit / S.F. Bay Area can tune-in on radio (often a better bet anyway), but forget about TV unless you want to subscribe to watch a grand total of two playoff games. Bruce Jenkins of the S.F. Chronicle calls it "Highway Robbery" and writes:

Here's the real crime of it all: As you reluctantly buy into MLB's scam, you're allowed to watch the A's on Sunday and one other Division Series game to be determined. But before long it will be November, and the offseason, and you won't be watching the channel for at least four months. Nice investment.

LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/MLB-s-latest-highway-robbery-3924177.php

Bud Selig: Major League Creep

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Buddy Boy sounds like a Romney voter

Even if I were rich, I wouldn't bother with this such-a-deal.

The idea used to be the rich could shut out the masses by manufacturing caviar instead of fish sticks. These days, the idea is that the rich can rip off other rich people and shut out the masses by marketing fish sticks as caviar.

If this turns out to be profitable, then it is because the rich are no smarter than rest of us. So much for thoughts Ayn Rand.

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Fuck Selig.

No team owner should have ever been Commissioner.

Tommy Lasorda should have been Commissioner of Baseball.

[Auggie]

3. No respect .. no respect at all. MLB scheduled a noon start after a night game.

No reason for that in the playoffs except to keep Detroit/Oakland off primetime. Fuckers.

[KamaAina]

4. Probably just as well

Just that many fewer people throwing stuff at their TVs out here.

[JonLP24]

5. WTF

I never heard of a sports league doing something like this, like NFL putting playoff games on NFL Network.

[TZ]

6. So its the first home playoff game in DC in 79 years

and its on at 1pm. On MLB Network. Thanks fuckhead Selig for making sure 3/4 of Washingtonians (including me) can't watch this game at all. Fuck you and your fucking preference for the fucking Yankee$$

[Auggie]

7. Radio?

I listened to A's radio last night while watching a muted telecast. It's so much better, even when it's just radio alone.

TBS announcers are about as lame as Brent Muffburger.

[TZ]

8. Too much work

today, can't afford the distraction. Even 3pm would have been much better for me. BUT NOOOOO....

[Auggie]

9. You have my sympathies

[El Supremo]

10. Wouldn't the game have been moved to later...

and be on TBS if those Bay Area teams had lost yesterday?

Blame them!