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Sep 22, 2008 - 4:31 PM
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Eric Paddon
(Member)
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I personally think MLB's sale of that kind of exclusivity to TBS is another example of how stupid their whole history of doing TV contracts has been since 1990. I grew up in the 70s and 80s when there was a wonderful rhythmic symmetry to postseason baseball. ABC did the All Star Game and playoffs one year, NBC did the World Series, next year you reversed it. This allowed MLB to have max exposure on multiple networks in the same way the NFL has always benefited from being on more than one network (in contrast to sports like basketball or hockey), and you also had great announcing teams like Al Michaels-Tim McCarver-Jim Palmer on ABC, Vin Scully-Joe Garagiola and Bob Costas-Tony Kubek on NBC. But then in 1990, thanks to the stupidity of then commissioner Peter Ueberroth (the same idiot who encouraged the owners to engage in collusion), baseball decided to given exclusivity to CBS, severing a 42 year relationship with NBC and more importantly allowed CBS to scale back regular season broadcasts by eliminating the traditional Game Of The Week. The end result was more upfront cash for the sake of cheapening baseball's overall nationwide exposure and they haven't recovered from this since, and only compounded it with bad TV contracts ever since (the late 90s at least when NBC was partly back in for the postseason only was the only time they regained their sanity a little bit). In the end, they have never made a single decision based on the interests of the fans and cared only about squeezing extra nickles for the here and now.
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Go PHILS!
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