On Fox Ruining My Saturday Afternoon

2 Q’s that I couldn’t seem to address – Hopefully you laides and gents can help me out and I’ll correct:

1) My formatting doesn’t show up in my browser. The ‘audience’ voice above should be bold and italicized, and I’ve done so in the editing – but I’m seeing it as regular text in this post. Firefox/IE kids – what’s it look like to you? You should see at least some bold/italicized text.

2) What’s up with that fragment stuff in my quote block?

I blame MLB for even letting them buy the rights.

So after all that I decide that I’ll just flip it over to Fox and watch whatever game they decided to show except it turns out THEY’RE NOT EVEN SHOWING A GAME. So you monopolize the broadcast on all the games and don’t even show a game! What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. You. Fox?

This is the media equivalent of taking your kickball and going home.

All I wanted to do was watch the A’s on my computer, and here I’m forced to watch the Red Sox and Angels on TV.

exclusive contracts and blackouts are GOOD for the fans. They’re a win-win. Bud says so himself.

For the slow among us who are also Giants fans, that was sarcasm.

how many ^#%$($ times can the Yankees and Red Sucks play in one season? I remember three Saturdays last season where that was the only game on. I don’t want to waste the time to figure it out, but I bet the Yanks/Angles (2 games) and Yanks/Mets (2 games) were all televised on the Saturdays on which they happened.

I have basically learned to not bother with Fox because I don’t want to watch either of those teams or the Angles (who MLB seems to demand that I love because I live within California).

What part of sales do they not understand? I’d be willing to pay more for ExInn if it ran around the Fox blackout. Or just give Fox the exclusive for the game they want (i.e. if the A’s were playing the Yankees or Sox you’d have to listen to the Fox bums instead of Fosse and Co., but at least you could see the game). I’ll listen to the Giants (or A’s, for that matter) gladly before I watch the 400th Yankee/Sux game in a season.

Finally, parents like to take children to ballgames. Many parents cannot go to weeknight games, and often don’t want to keep their kids up late. Kids will, someday, grow up to be losers posting on websites about your poorly-marketed product and your best and most interested customers. And their parents would like to buy them a lot of diabetes-causing food and overpriced novelties. But they can’t do any of that if the home team schedules all or nearly all its Saturday games at night to avoid the Yankees-Sux blackouts. You could argue that I am a big baseball fan in part of the joys and fears involved in the annual trips to A’s games, which always occurred on Saturdays because that was the only time we could make the round trip in a day.

Finally, if people are willing to pay for the privilege of looking at a grainy window on a laptop to watch their favorite team, why the $#@@ would you black THAT out in favor of a telecast of a ballgame from three time zones away?

It’s one thing for the NFL to black out games because they think that attendance is affected by televising the home game (I don’t like it and think it’s shortsighted, but at least it’s based on a rational premise). To stop me from watching the Giants or A’s or #&^$@ Rays if I want because Fox is cramming Red Sux nation down the throats of the rest of the nation is…. well, not good.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates these stupid Sat. blackouts and the highly misleading marketing done regarding ExInn. Burying a blurb five screens beneath all the trumpeting of scheduled games (note that they list all the Sat. games on the broadcast schedule even though all will be blacked out) is not exactly adequate disclosure, IMO.

Anyway, peace out and go Cust!