Assholes, why don't you just stop showing the games!
Right now on ESPN’s MLB homepage, they’re running a video in which they discuss what should be done about fans seeing too many Yankees/Red Sox games. They discuss demolishing the National and American Leagues, contracting the two teams in Florida, and realigning all the divisions. What they DON’T discuss, not surprisingly, is how ESPN is the one responsible for broadcasting the Yankees and Red Sox every time they’re on. Yes, MLB makes the schedule, but they specifically schedule that rivalry for Sunday, Monday, or Wednesday nights so that those games can be on ESPN. On top of that, there are other games that start on Monday and Wednesday nights that ESPN could show instead of Yanks/Sox. Yes, we’re all sick of seeing that match-up too often every season. But it’s astounding to me the lengths that ESPN would go, including suggesting the realignment of all of baseball, just to try to shift that conversation away from “ESPN should broadcast a different game.” Amazing.
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They also completely failed to address what would happen with the DH if the league were restructured. That would be the biggest hurdle since that makes the AL and NL so different. I personally don’t care if they play a shit load of Sox/Yankees games because I don’t watch them anyways. I have my local station playing all of the games that I want to see. Change the channel if you don’t want to watch the game that’s on.
But you can’t change the channel to a different game, especially here in New York. There are plenty of other teams I’d like to see, they just don’t show them. What about the Angles, or Mariners, or Rangers, or Tigers, or Cardinals, or Dodgers, or Giants, or Rockies, or Philles, or Rays. I would watch any other good team or any other team with a superstar on it.
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Thanks soxfan. And yes, Pat, money has EVERYTHING to do with it. I just thought it was funny that, instead of avoiding the issue of their network always showing that match-up, they instead took it in the insane direction of “let’s restructure baseball as a whole.” That is the kind of spin that even Fox News and the Bush Press Secretaries would be in awe of.