Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Rays on TBS is Horrible
As I write this, I am watching out of the corner of my eye, the cartoon depiction of the American League Championship Series that MLB.com provides as a play by play for every game. This would be fine if it were the middle of August, but this is the American League Championship Series and I can’t watch it because it is on TBS and I don’t have that station on the DirecTV family plan.
How crazy is it that I live within driving distance of Tampa and I can’t watch them play on TV? I thought to myself, no problem, they will have a local station broadcasting the game so I can watch it, certainly there is some kind of exemption. I know when the Redskins used to play on ESPN they would pick it up on the local station and rebroadcast it there, but no. Me and millions of others can’t watch the American League Championship Series! That is asinine.
And they wonder why the ratings are down? Here is someone that would be watching every pitch, but I can’t. Certainly there are millions of people just like me, I am not that unique, who would be watching the game if they could, but they can’t! This is just stupid.
Do you feel the championship series should be on cable? We are depriving the country of their pass time, the poorest among us can’t find pleasure watching the game they love taking them away from daily crisis and financial crisis providing an escape, because it’s on cable. Horrible decision MLB. Maybe a few more dollars today, but a loss of many more in the future.
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Sports Nut Shop Offers a Wide Variety of MLB Merchandise
From the moment you log on to the Sports Nut Shop it is obvious that they offer a wide range of MLB merchandise. The cool scrolling menu of items features autographed balls, New York Yankee Jackets, Mets’ caps, Indians’ ties and an MLB rubics cube!
They offer MLB apparel, autographed memorabilia and much much more. They have a section for apparel, home accents, autos, collectible, gifts and novelties, travel and outdoors, toys and gamerooms, bar and kitchen, for the office, and a clearance area. Everything you would want for the baseball lover in MLB gifts and browsable by team as well.
A quick click to my favorite team the New York Yankees takes me to a Yankees’ Yahtzee game, license plate, and wind chime. There are little tidbits of history about each club on the page as well and just about every item you could want from salt and pepper shakers to money clips and belt buckles.
Just to make sure they had as much merchandise for a lesser team (and all teams are lesser than the Yankees of course, I clicked on the lowly Philadelphia Phillies. (Oh yeah, they are in the playoffs and the Yankees aren’t!) They had an equal amount of merchandise for them as well.
All told, Sports Nut Shop to be a pretty comprehensive site for MLB merchandise. I know I could spend thousands there if left alone with my credit card.
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Hawaii Little League World Series Champions!
On June 15th of this year, 2 1/2 months ago, every single Little League on the planet announced their All-Star teams and set out on a journey to be the best in the world! A lot of talent, a lot of luck, and the planets align, and maybe you can win it right?
It happened for Hawaii today! Congratulations to them and their staff.
How did they do it? All together now! Pitching and solid hitting. They had fantastic pitching four or five deep and great hitting. Louisiana paid only having two studs, Hawaii made them pay in the top of the sixth, Hawaii had more pitching and better hitting. That’s what the new tournament is all about!
Wait until next year when you can’t move your catcher to pitcher either! Now we are talking about needed four pitchers per team! Hopefully this will be reflected at all divisions 10 to 20 years from now and the titantium composite superbats will be silenced ending the boring trot of the home run and replacing it with the close play at the plate.
Time to start over with the new crop of kids in the fall program!
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