Major League Baseball Screws the Philadelphia Sports Fan - Page 2 - PhillyBlog

mortadelo · #11 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 10:19 PM

I'm personally looking forward to the two home games starting early. Daytime baseball rules during the week. Its a good reason to play hooky.

dgoak · #12 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 10:31 PM

I got tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!

PinkSoil · #13 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 11:54 PM

Totally sucks. Tomorrow I leave work at 3.............. to go straight to school. No Phillies game for me. And of course darn hubby took a half day tomorrow and Thursday. :-( No fair. I'll be able to watch Sat. night-- and Sunday night we have a wedding. So I agree-- IT SUCKS.

Tim K · #14 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 12:28 AM

Newsflash. Major League Baseball is a business. Business, at least in a capitalist society, is there for the sole purpose of making money. MLB makes its money through TV contracts and advertising. The more "popular" a game is expected to be the better the time slot. Overlapping games costs TV revenues. Like it or not, this is the right decision from a business perspective.

Sorry baseball fans (and all pro sports fans) but Baseball does not care about making you happy....MLB cares about making its networks and advertisers happy.

dgoak · #15 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Tim K

Newsflash. Major League Baseball is a business. Business, at least in a capitalist society, is there for the sole purpose of making money. MLB makes its money through TV contracts and advertising. The more "popular" a game is expected to be the better the time slot. Overlapping games costs TV revenues. Like it or not, this is the right decision from a business perspective.

Sorry baseball fans (and all pro sports fans) but Baseball does not care about making you happy....MLB cares about making its networks and advertisers happy.

yeah it's sad. I remember before the redsox won the world series they were hardly on espn. SO i go out and buy the extra innings package. then they win and suddenly you can watch a sox game every other week. And the entire yankees redsox series is covered in full spanning 2 networks........

same thing happened in the beginning of this season with MLB kicking extra innings package off cable, all in preparation for the baseball channel (no doubt a subscription) that will be launched next season or the following one.

Bulworth67 · #16 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Tim K

Newsflash. Major League Baseball is a business. Business, at least in a capitalist society, is there for the sole purpose of making money. MLB makes its money through TV contracts and advertising. The more "popular" a game is expected to be the better the time slot. Overlapping games costs TV revenues. Like it or not, this is the right decision from a business perspective.

Sorry baseball fans (and all pro sports fans) but Baseball does not care about making you happy....MLB cares about making its networks and advertisers happy.

Doesn't mean we can't complain. Loudly!

marchi · #17 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 12:56 PM

What's the best way to get the game on line? Preferably free.

Hospitalitygirl · #18 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by marchi

What's the best way to get the game on line? Preferably free.

Work for No El!

Hospitalitygirl · #19 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 01:38 PM

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/ho.../10198046.html

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So why did it happen this way? In fairness, the suits at Turner Sports and MLB's New York offices gain nothing by inconveniencing millions of postseason-starved Phillies fans. The reality of the baseball postseason schedule is that some team's fans get a lousy game time or two.
There are several factors at work: the size of the TV markets involved, the NFL schedule, and, of course, the pursuit of the almighty advertising dollar. That last one is a constant, so there's no sense dwelling on it. Television pays exorbitant sums to show these games, so television calls the shots.
If you view the four league division series as a jigsaw puzzle with up to 20 pieces spread out over four time zones, the challenge is to assemble those pieces (games) so each can be seen by as many people as possible. Then the challenge is to get the choice TV markets - New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago - into prime-time slots as much as possible.
Philadelphia is a very attractive TV market, too, but the Phillies didn't seem likely to be involved until late in the scheduling process. When the TV schedule was set Monday, the Phillies' two possible opponents - San Diego and Colorado - happened to represent the smallest TV markets in the eight-team field.

A plausible explanation????

spwillie · #20 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 01:46 PM

There is NO reason for it! Saturday TBS is broadcasting the Cubs game at 6pm - 5pm their time.... NOT primetime then the Phillies at 9:30pm in Philly - also NOT primetime. It is a weekend day and the line up includes 2 Sandra Bullock movies, back to back Sex and the City and King of Queens. These are the only 2 games Saturday.