this sucks.  mlb.com blacks out saturday and sunday games in the USA.  oh well, this should be the last one i miss for a while.

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Welp. Carp has had lousy control of the fastball all game, so that was just a matter of time.

When Tyler Greene asks himself why he has to go back to Memphis, swinging on 2-0 at a pitch at the ankles will be the answer.

I kind of felt bad for Franklin when he got booed.  He has played pretty good as a Cardinal.  Then he comes in the game today and makes me feel alot less bad for him.

APRTW wrote:

Max wrote:

this sucks.  mlb.com blacks out saturday and sunday games in the USA.  oh well, this should be the last one i miss for a while.

That seems stupid.  People buy MLB.com to watch teams they normally cant see.  I wouldnt buy it because I can already watch them on dish every night.  So why do they care if a guy in washington can watch a game thousands of miles away?

The MLB folks will tell you Fox pays a lot of money for the rights to show games on Saturday afternoons. We got Giants/Braves here yesterday. MLB has this bizarre notion that because the Braves once played in Boston, there's still a fan base for them here. When interleague play started, the Braves were the Red Sox' "territorial rival" and they played every year. The Braves barely had a fan base here to begin with (hence the move to Milwaukee), and they never played the Red Sox in the World Series, so I don't know how it became a rivalry in the '90s.
The Sunday blackouts are new. ESPN has exclusivity on Sunday nights after 8 p.m., but usually the only other team that schedules Sunday night games is Texas in the summer.

Once the summer starts, you'll have fewer conflicts on Saturdays, especially with NLC opposition. The only two teams that regularly appear on national TV are the Cards and the Cubs, though the Reds may be on more frequently this year. The other three teams almost play exclusively on Saturday nights.

What part of the non-USA will you be living?

more cheap beer observations:

Miller High Life pint cans.  Mine is sort of like an updated Saint Pauli Girl; there's this vaguely mulatto babe in halter and shorts with a rack that could stop traffic.  i guess it helps sell bad beer.  probably works better than telling me it's made from yakima valley hops, at any rate.

Last edited by Max (4/24/2011 10:55 pm)

no question about it.  miller is upscale cheap beer.  it's a buck more per six pack than busch.

APRTW wrote:

Max wrote:

no question about it.  miller is upscale cheap beer.  it's a buck more per six pack than busch.

Natty is better and I dont believe in buying beer in a six pack.

i used to keep alcohol around the house.  then i turned 40 and came face-to-face with the prospect of living on soft money, with no secure employment for the rest of my life, and now i only stock what i plan to drink on a given night.

this new contract is the first 12 months of decent pay and semi-security that we have enjoyed in a while. and regarding job title, FYI, my visa will say "journalist" but that's not what I do.  More like scientific consultant for matters of wildlife biology and conservation in SE Asia.