Sorry MLB I Can’t Do It

Sorry baseball, I'm just not going to watch.

Last night should have been a must-see but after 6 hours of lame football it just wasn't enough to keep my attention.

Of all things that got me to give up it was Chip Caray saying, "It's already the third inning!" (really) and then I said, "It's already 9 o'clock!" so I turned it off.

Good luck to the Rays but I'm not watching. Enjoy starting games at 8:30 to sell commercial time to Barack and to make sure fans in Las Vegas can see Philly and Tampa.

It makes no sense. Half the population lives in the eastern time zone. I'll read about the games the next day.

Go Rays.

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Break Out The Titans Jerseys

I just woke up. I fell asleep sometime during the 3rd quarter of the worst game televised in NYC since an awful Jets-Chargers blowout back when NBC had the games (and wouldn't switch us out with the Jets down 28).

The Jets game was so boring that I was hoping TBS would cut in some episodes of Steve Harvey.

Does the NFL really think it would kill us to have the doubleheaders in NYC?

I hate the Jets so I'm glad they lost but jeez Louise that was the worst game to watch.
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TBS Nice Head. MLB Nice Head.

By now you’ve read that TBS missed the start of the game last night.

Two circuit breakers in our Atlanta transmission operations tripped causing the master router and its backup – which are necessary to transmit any incoming feed outbound – to shut down. This impacted our live feed from being distributed to any of the other networks in the Turner portfolio and caused the delay in our coverage. Both our primary and backup routers were impacted by this problem. We apologize to baseball fans for this mishap that caused a delay in our coverage.


Think about this scenario:  It’s the AFC Championship Game.  The NFL gets wind that CBS has lost the feed.   Do you think they’d play the game with no TV coverage?

I’m tempted to say NO WAY.

However, in Buffalo today the power went out and the Bills and Chargers kept playing with no TV coverage, so maybe they would play.

Regardless, MLB should have postponed the game.  Between TBSgate and the nonsense with starting the World Series late to accommodate a commercial (Barack bought time) maybe they really don’t want any of us to watch the games?

The Araysing or The Amazing?

The headline is mine.  The rest of it a link to a cool article here comparing the coming of age of the Rays and the 69 Mets.

I understand the analogy that these Rays are the ’69 Amazin’ Mets of this generation, but I don’t necessarily buy into it. Yes, like the ’69 Mets, the Rays have come from an entire existence of being in last place to where they are now, but I just believe these Rays are better than those Mets were, and will be legitimate contenders for a longer period of time than those Mets were.

Of course, it never hurts to have a pitching staff that includes Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry, Nolan Ryan, Tug McGraw and Ron Taylor as the ’69 Mets had. And though the 22-year-old Ryan did go 6-3 for those Mets and did pitch 2.1 scoreless innings in the World Series that year, his importance to that particular staff has kind of grown with legend. The Mets did, after all, trade him (for Jim Fregosi?). Still, not a bad spot starter and long reliever to have.

What we have in these Rays is the post-steroid era blueprint for success: Homegrown talent with baseball skills and athleticism to boot. Power is not emphasized as home runs will take care of themselves. What the Rays hone are baseball skills and awareness, defense and pitching. Speed is not an option; it’s a requirement.

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