Also announced was that the World Series will begin on a Tuesday instead of a weekend. To accomodate this, they are looking at shortening the regular season and ending it a week earlier.
StereoidBall is boring :)
To be clear, TBS will drop the national broadcast of Braves games, but will still broadcast 45 games a year in the Atlanta market.
First they sell the team to Liberty Media, who has no interest in raising the Braves salary limits, and now they remove the Braves national TV presense.
The result, the Braves go from one of baseballs elite, to a small market team with minimal national exposure fighting for local TV scraps.
I've never understood blackouts and broadcast rights completely. I live an hour north of Kansas City and have DishNetwork, and our Fox Sports Net is a St. Louis Cardinals channel. So whenever there is a Cardinals game on, the channel is blacked out. I presume it is because I am outside of the St. Louis viewing area. No problem.
But whenever a Cardinals game is on ESPN or ESPN2, it gets blacked out - presumably because they say I am within the St. Louis umbrella.
I don't feel so bad, though - I understand that most of the state Iowa has games blacked out when it includes the Cubs, White Sox, Twins, Royals, Cardinals, and Brewers.
So MLB is thinking about going Retro, interesting.
As I recall from my 'yute' (before UHF & color TV) the season was 156 games and the WS did start on a Tuesday (could be wrong but that's what I recall).
Now, if we could get the AL to do something about the DH ...... :-)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up watching the Braves lose behind Dale Murphy's bat. I remember when TBS decided to show the "Goodwill Games" and we missed Bob Horner's 4 homer game. The Braves still lost that game, making the only time in history a player hit 4 home runs for a team that lost the game.
Sigh.
This really stinks for people with HDTV. TNT has HDTV, but TBS is just standard def.
This really makes me mad.