tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post2493931110392516684..comments2023-10-20T04:28:04.547-04:00Comments on Nats320 -- A Washington Nationals Blog: The Post Season ShamScreech's Best Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01094199653375184305noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-25911075428033139032007-10-06T14:10:00.000-04:002007-10-06T14:10:00.000-04:00Exceedingly well said - thanks.Exceedingly well said - thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-34147904542778657822007-10-04T18:46:00.000-04:002007-10-04T18:46:00.000-04:00SBFI agree with you.In 2005, I got a letter and an...SBF<BR/>I agree with you.<BR/>In 2005, I got a letter and an invoice from the Nationals for the potential play-offs.<BR/>I still have it, the prices were about 5 times my season tickets and I was offered seats in the upper outfield, way away from my regular seats.<BR/>I love baseball and the Nats however, MLB and the Nationals want to take care of their rich wannabe baseball crowd.<BR/>How about us that go to Viera, Pittsburgh, Shea Stadium and Philadelphia? I guess we don't count.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-55499217619563171052007-10-04T15:41:00.000-04:002007-10-04T15:41:00.000-04:00This is very compelling stuff, making one wonder w...This is very compelling stuff, making one wonder what Mike Wise and Sally Jenkins do for a living?<BR/><BR/>Why is there so little muckraking about the extortion and shabby treatment of the true fan?<BR/><BR/>Do you think that Kasten would be empathetic to this plea, and offer a guarantee of some sort that your ticket would be in the same range of seats, at least, should the Nats get in? Or, is he part of the brigade?<BR/><BR/>When I was invited to sit with then Tagliube's boss at the NFL lawfirm in 1973, since he was my college roomate's Dad, we sat at the 50 yard line for the Skins-Dolphins Super bowl VII at the LA Colosseum, among luminaries like Howard Cosell, Diana Shore, Burt Reynolds, Hugh O'Brien, Joe DiMaggio, Senator Muskie, Las Vegas showgirls (seriously), there to be seen and to see, few of whom even watched the game... <BR/><BR/>I had waited my entire life for a Washington team to be in a championship game. I was so disheartened by the experience, my first of this No Fan Ego First Experience. Super Bowls are dreadful due to this syndrome having risen to a level of pomp and circumstance and the intolerable drawing out of the game until ennui prevails ON HIGH!<BR/><BR/>Baseball is now seemingly embarked on making even the DCS in each league mini-Super Bowls. You don't have to worry about moving to a neutral site, since they are neutering the home field. And the coverage on TBS is unreal, to boot, as it sounds like it is being fed from Germany or some other cable foreign news bureau.<BR/><BR/>A real feeling of disconnectiveness, and surreality.<BR/><BR/>Cubs Lose. Cubs Lose. And No. 12 no hero...<BR/><BR/>Trust in Edward R. Murrow. All Good.SenatorNathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10049860385485455410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-80555974072024008172007-10-04T11:37:00.000-04:002007-10-04T11:37:00.000-04:00Fox and TBS are going to rotate each year of the 8...Fox and TBS are going to rotate each year of the 8-year deal. Next year FOX will have the NLCS and TBS the ALCS. TBS will televise the entire Division Series for the entire length of the deal.<BR/><BR/>Let's all calm down. This is similar to Turner's deal with the NBA where TNT televises one conference final each year (which rotates, East one year, West the next) and ESPN/ABC televise the other along with the NBA Finals.MickMcDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07616918751816765213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-63916574980348217082007-10-04T07:50:00.000-04:002007-10-04T07:50:00.000-04:00"MLB's contract gives Fox the right to pick in adv..."MLB's contract gives Fox the right to pick in advance which LCS they want to broadcast and TBS gets the other league."<BR/><BR/>Is this really the way it is, or do TBS and Fox rotate from one year to the next on who broadcasts the ALCS and NLCS? I think I saw somewhere in the press recently that it's a rotation (like the way the networks rotate having the Super Bowl), but I could be wrong about that. Maybe Fox just got to pick which league they wanted for this year to start off the rotation process.An Briosca Morhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06855174362787324401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-5245094182346168262007-10-04T06:22:00.000-04:002007-10-04T06:22:00.000-04:00SBF: As usual, what MLB says and what MLB does are...SBF: As usual, what MLB says and what MLB does are entirely different. They say that the season ticket holders are their life blood, but when the BIG games come around, the season ticket BUYER is moved to a table near the kitchen, while the corporate big wigs get the front row. It's crony-ism as an art form. Politics? MLB? Corporate sponsors? They're all the same. It always has been and always will be about the money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676208.post-73802934092452146582007-10-04T05:33:00.000-04:002007-10-04T05:33:00.000-04:00Here is another thing which gets my goat. It used ...Here is another thing which gets my goat. It used to be that each League would be treated equally. One network would broadcast the LCS's and there would be alternating between day and night games.<BR/><BR/>Last year or the year before, they changed it so that all LCS games were at night. Fox would show the other game on F/X, thus requiring fans who wanted to see both to (a) get cable, and (b) get another VCR (or DVR recorder).<BR/><BR/>Now guess what happens this year? Instead of being broadcast on F/X, the NLCS will be broadcast on TBS while the ALCS will be broadcast on Fox. If you think it's a coincidence this is the same league that has the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees (to TV, the only teams that only matter anymore)---you're not. MLB's contract gives Fox the right to pick in advance which LCS they want to broadcast and TBS gets the other league.<BR/><BR/>Which means that until the unlikely scenario of the Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox (not even a World Series could get the Sox to draw three million fans or get most Chicagoans to care about them), the Texas Rangers and the Silicon Valley Athletics of Fremont make the AL playoffs instead of the Yanks and Bosox, the ALCS is <B>always</B> going to be on Fox, which means the Nationals' league will always be the "other" or the JV league...Edward J. Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925008506185290162noreply@blogger.com