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Rant on baseball and online radio (vanity)
4/12/'16
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Posted on 04/12/2016 8:11:50 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
Okay people. You all know that this year is the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' first season in Wrigley Field. You also know that as of last year the national version of WGN no longer carries Cubs games. The Chicago station does, but the "superstation" apparently makes more money showing episode after episode after episode of a show called "Bluebloods" (which I know absolutely nothing about) than it does showing the Cubbies.
So I looked up the radio station that currently carries the games and found it online. Well guess what? At game time I get the very beginning but then it gets cut off for some sports talk show!
Now this doesn't make one bit of sense. I can see that on TV some games would be blacked out. But this is AM RADIO! How in the world does one block that??? I mean, it comes over the air, and anyone who lives close enough to pick up the station can hear it for nothing!
So why in blazes do they get off blocking the exact same program on the exact same station when you tune in online instead of with a radio set? What's the difference? Why block out an AM radio station??? Don't the same commercials air online as over the air? I just don't see the reasoning behind this!!!
PS: I've found a downloadable program online that is claimed to allow a person to watch any game at any time online for FREE. I haven't downloaded it yet because it sounds too good to be true. Anyone out there know anything about it?
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: baseball; blackout; cubbies; internetradio
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I pay the twenty bucks and get mlb.com gameday so I can listen to the Cubs online anywhere. You can also listen to Amy other game you want. It’s well worth it.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:16:44 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: Zionist Conspirator
” showing episode after episode after episode of a show called “Bluebloods”
What’s wrong with Bluebloods? Tom Selleck is an honorary Freeper and the show skews to the right. It’s not like they’re showing crap like Modern Family.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:18:06 AM PDT
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: Zionist Conspirator
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:18:46 AM PDT
by
UB355
(Slower traffic keep right)
To: Zionist Conspirator
MLB controls the rights to the games. The online stream of the station won’t have the game on. I think the same thing happens with football. For $20 and the MLB at Bat app you can get all the baseball games you want streamed with the radio telecast. I subscribe to the MLB.tv also, and can watch any baseball game I want (except the National games on ESPN or Fox). Luckily I don’t get locally blacked out either.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:20:35 AM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
I've found a downloadable program online that is claimed to allow a person to watch any game at any time online for FREE. I haven't downloaded it yet because it sounds too good to be true. Anyone out there know anything about it? I don't know, what's it called?
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:22:09 AM PDT
by
chud
To: raybbr; Zionist Conspirator
Are there 3 of us on here that are actual Cubs fans?!?!
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:22:15 AM PDT
by
Chipper
(You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
I thought WGN promoted Cubs games before because the parent company used to own the franchise. (? I may be wrong.) Now that they sold the Cubs, they don’t need to shoulder the revenue loss.
Too bad, I don’t watch any other products WGN sells ......
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:23:42 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Chipper
The online stream of the station wont have the game on.This is precisely what doesn't make any sense! What's the difference between listening to a radio station on a radio set and listening to that same station online??? Is it a geographical thing?
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:24:10 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Broadcast rights. Because the MLB sells primarily local broadcast contracts there’s a lot of issue with geography, issues that didn’t used to matter but in this modern age where nothing is ever truly local it does. Either you’re living someplace where you’re “covered” by somebody’s contract, or WGN and your radio station just don’t want to screw with it and block the games from anything outside their contracted “circle”.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:25:26 AM PDT
by
discostu
(This unit not labeled for individual sale)
To: Chipper
Are there 3 of us on here that are actual Cubs fans?!?!Isn't everyone a Cubs fan deep down inside?
But this was the home opener, and the 100th anniversary season of the Cubs at Wrigley!
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:26:00 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
I know this is off subject, but has anyone been following that rookie from Colorado, Trevor Story? 7 home runs in 6 games is an amazing feat. Especially for a rookie.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:29:45 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Lazamataz for President 2016)
To: Zionist Conspirator
What's the difference between listening to a radio station on a radio set and listening to that same station online? Anyone, anywhere could listen to the games online. Not just local folks.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:36:43 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:37:16 AM PDT
by
shortstop
(Why is the worst Pope of my lifetime serving at the same time as the worst President of my lifetime?)
To: discostu
Broadcast rights. Because the MLB sells primarily local broadcast contracts theres a lot of issue with geography, issues that didnt used to matter but in this modern age where nothing is ever truly local it does. Either youre living someplace where youre covered by somebodys contract, or WGN and your radio station just dont want to screw with it and block the games from anything outside their contracted circle.Oh. Okay. ::Sniff!:: I . . . see.
Oh well. I'm sure I'll find another reason to live one day. After all, there's always . . .
THE PONIES!!111!1
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:38:13 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: raybbr
I pay the twenty bucks and get mlb.com gameday. Me, too. I'd like it for free but I parted with $20 to get ALL the games on radio.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:39:51 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Go Trump!)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Get MLBTV or MLB Gameday.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:40:03 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: EvilCapitalist
7 home runs in 6 games is an amazing feat. Especially for a rookie.Pitchers haven't figured him out yet. They will.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:42:37 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Or give the MLB $20 and listen from their website. Or given $160 get Extra Innings and watch them.
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posted on
04/12/2016 8:55:50 AM PDT
by
discostu
(This unit not labeled for individual sale)
To: Zionist Conspirator; BlackElk
I had decided to drop MLB when Interleague Play was introduced. At the end of the season, my Dodgers made the playoffs, so I thought I'd give MLB one more try. Blackelk and I went to Bobby Valentine's with its dozen C-Band Dishes, to watch the PLAYOFF game that wasn't on regular cable. A dozen big screens surrounded the bar. There were Yankees. And Red Sox. And hockey. And soccer. And tennis. Where are the Dodgers?
Major League Baseball blacked out the SATELLITE DISHES! MLB determined that I was supposed to be a local fan.
It would be a tough call if I had to choose between pledging allegiance to the Communist Party or the American League. If they won't let me be a Dodger fan, they must not want me to be a fan at all.
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posted on
04/12/2016 9:21:06 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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