TheLeviathan
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Allowing streaming does nothing to limit affiliates. Both can co-exist without much of any damage to the other. April afternoon games are a short-lived phenomenon. I counted nights a week, if we want to start counting by game, the NBA has double and triple headers nearly every night they are on. NHL too. Baseball has a very limited national broadcast schedule outside of their network. The NBA and NHL do not.
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There's lots of stuff on the Oprah network I hear too.....
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This thread has potential for de-railing..... yarnivek?
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There is one game on MLB network. Which game you get depends on....you guessed it!...your region. Double counting that is disingenuous. The NHL and NBA do this as well. In terms of what is played on their own network it's a wash. What is different is that MLB has two days a week when there is a game not on their network. The NBA and NHL have 3 every week and a healthy chunk of weeks with 4. (And a few with 5) These are national broadcasts that everyone with the channel sees. Not based on your region, not based on anything other than owning the channel. So yes, in terms of national broadcasts, baseball is significantly behind the other three. And you don't have to look far (exclusive cable provider contracts) to figure out why.
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Buxton Replacement? Don't bother, he's already here....
TheLeviathan replied to HitInAPinch's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I would prefer to give him a few more months in the big leagues. However, a lot of the issues with Buxton aren't ability, but that there is something broken with his basic swing mechanics/approach. I wouldn't rule out the benefit of sending him down to a place with less pressure, with ONE designated guy to work through the issues with him, and let him get those mechanics fixed. I'm not ready to do that yet, I'd like to see him try to do that here for the very reasons you mention, but it should be something still on the table for this year. -
Salary caps have their benefits. Especially if you don't share all revenues. I think the NBA's roster rules are confusing, but not as confusing as NFL contracts.
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Buxton Replacement? Don't bother, he's already here....
TheLeviathan replied to HitInAPinch's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
I'm not panicking....but I am worried. And if you're not, then you probably are trying too hard to keep the rose-colored glasses on. It's time to be worried and it's time for the organization to make it their top priority. (Something I hope is already happening.) -
I assumed he meant Aaron Paul, who has had a lackluster follow up to Breaking Bad.
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You're twisting what I meant by national presence. Of course baseball is still a more popular sport. But if I have a basic sports package, I have significantly more access to hockey and basketball every night than I do baseball. That's just a fact.
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Please donate it to "The Foundation for people who have clearly had their account hacked by Aaron Hicks or are just plain out of their minds" It's a noble cause, it'll probably hit close to home.
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Even if the networks wash each other, there is still at least one more game a week for hockey and basketball. Often two or more additionally because they do back to backs on those nights. As Brock said, this shouldn't be all that surprising. Baseball, in order to make a bunch of money, has prioritized high priced region-centric broadcasting. Far more so than any of the other major sports. And as a result their national presence is significantly behind those other sports. I think that is a bad thing, for several reasons, long term for the league. It's a short-sighted money grab I don't want to participate in.
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We've heard this before based on a small sample size. He finished with a .619 OPS. Hicks simply has a long track record of being unable to hit the ball consistently. One week doesn't change that.
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If you're a child of the 90s like me, then I think this will be a wonderful way to spend some time. My god that show was brilliant. Some of the anecdotes and stories in this are just amazing.
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Bigger problem seems to be leaving guys at second and third with nobody out early in the game....no?
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That's not accurate. This is the MLB's national broadcast schedule. By the time June rolls around the only national games are Saturday on Fox and Sunday night on ESPN. The NBA and NHL broadcast a game on their network every night. All season. By June, MLB Network has none. At all. It probably does live look-ins each night, but it does not broadcast a game like either of those networks. Now in addition to that butt-whooping of availability NBCsports has a hockey game on at least 3 nights, sometimes more, a week. The NBA is on ESPN, TNT, and TBS 3 times a week. So no, your post is false. Those leagues offer a significantly higher volume of national content compared to MLB. (Despite, by comparison, having less volume of content to offer compared to a 162 game schedule)
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Awesome read, thanks!
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Internet bets are stupid. It's phony machismo. As it was last year when you pimped how amazing Hicks would be too. How'd that work out for you? Hicks will settle back in around 600-650 OPS and be lucky to do it with a BA that cracks .230. That's who he's been. That's who he'll always be. He can't hit.
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Well, you can never know for sure. But you're suggesting a good starter with some control will net less than Eduardo Nunez. I understand skepticism, but don't you think you're taking it a tad farther than that?
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Pressley is arguably our best reliever. With two outs are we going to walk every dude who we fear might get a hit? At some point the problem then is the reliever, not the manager.
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I think perhaps calling this irrelevant is in the running for understatement of the year. On a daily basis it's far easier to watch an NBA, NFL, or NHL game than it is to find a baseball game. Baseball Gollum's the content in an effort to horde every penny it can. I get the approach, but I don't have to like it. Or think it's good for the sport in the long term. The NFL realized this when it changed the Thursday night games to a local broadcast. The NHL does it with radio. The NBA has multiple games on every night on various channels. Baseball is the least accessible of the major sports and it's not even all that close.
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Or there were other backdoor ways to hear streams. No baseball has shut it all down. I'm not "demanding a freebie", I'm just not going to bend over for a thumb in the eye so baseball can make $20 off of me. I'll reward entertainment that doesn't try so hard to gouge me.
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And, for me personally, when it feels like a thumb in the eye for a money grab....then it just irritates me.
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Because it chews up a lot of airtime for a lot of nights. Relatively cheap filler every night you can advertise is basically the draw, not the actual number of listeners they have. Most of those stations overlap each other significantly too. They don't care about being vultured by someone listening to the flagship, those aren't their listeners. (I say that as a kid who grew up outstate and could listen to any of about 12 different stations to hear the Twins, including the Twin Cities) 20 years ago you could listen to WCCO online and hear a Twins game, until MLB tried to block it. There were lots of streams and video options available online. (I know this because I used to listen to Twins broadcasts while I lived in Chicago) The blackout can't be more than 10 years old or so. Yes, options are more available than ever, but that isn't the case if you put up a wall around all of those options so you can charge your fans for it.
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Fair enough. I'm just curious, if they suddenly said we're going to continue the Indiana Jones saga and then he went hunting after the same stuff with the same gags and same character archetypes along for the ride....I might feel a bit cheated. It's essentially not what was promised, but just a remake in many ways. So I was just curious how people perceived that. I'm sure, if you're a huge fan, anything new (no matter how derivative or unique it is) is cause for celebration in and of itself.
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You can still have all that. When I listen to a Wild game on iheart I get a blend of Twin Cities focused ads and local adds mixed in. I also understand that the league won't cater to me. What I don't understand is why they think that makes for a good business model. They've forced me to prioritize my entertainment purchases and sports dollars. So my son hears me listen to hockey games from time to time (plus getting to watch them far more frequently on basic cable packages) and the same with football. Baseball used to be the thing on in the backgroudn while we played. Now? It's hockey. Or some other channel. And while baseball may not lose any dimes over me right now, I guarantee you they are losing some on him. And they're doing it for the sake of $20 a year. It's a very old-school way of thinking about distribution and exposure in a world where there are far, far more choices available.
