Thread: The Baseball Network

Originally Posted by BillD1984

ONLY if there is a God!

Bill, if you don't want FOX to carry the World Series, who would you want to show it?

Originally Posted by SabresRule

How exactly did the Network work?

If you were in White Sox territory, you'd see a Cubs game? Or something like that?

There was actually litigation about it.

In the regular season, it was more or less an "end around" the teams' contracts with their local stations. In the regular season, every game would be produced, a couple featuring the actual network annoucers, and the rest by the same crew that did the games locally. So if you lived in, say Kansas City and it was NBC's turn at the Baseball Network, you got the KC game, with the announcer that normally worked the games on the regular KC local station, on the NBC station. BUT, the games had to be in the appropriate prime time, so, if KC was playing out west or in the daytime, you would get the "national" game. If you lived in a two team market, only one game would be presented.

In the playoffs, all of the games were at the same time, and you pretty much got whichever game they thought you cared about based on what league had a team closer to you.

Truely stupid.

That's what turned me off. Why regionalize the playoffs? That's what the playoffs are for, to watch them. Didn't they want to garner a strong audience? Why have 4 games on at once.