The fans who go to ballpark or who religiously watch it on TV are the livelihood of sports entertainment. That is why they call athletes entertainers, because the fans are entertained, and thus become the major source of the player's salaries. Just as a police departments is paid by the people (through taxes) entertainers are also payed by the people.
To outright deny the fans ability to watch his own team in the area is LUDICROUS. It drives the demand down, because people like the ability to pick and choose their games. Some people can only watch day games, which is funny, because this is the game that is constantly being blacked out. All I have to say to finish this rant is that this system is more like a militaristic dictatorship than capitalism. Its the big money-man putting his fat green thumb where it doesn't belong. Let the people watch the freaking games. Let them drive the demand, not the money grubbing owners.
And this goes for all the cable companies that force people to buy channel packages. As if they know how to mainipulate that demand. They force people to buy channels that they will never watch. Thus, like our fat BAIL OUT of the mega banks, our cable and sattelite providers are also bailing out these channels that don't belong in packages. They belong as single enteties that should be either in existant or extant depending on people's demand. How can we live in such a capitalistic country and have such shitty uncapitalistic business models that screws the consumer. In a way, we all get worst of everything. Thanks Baseball (and Bud Selig) for instilling this great system of blacking out games. You have really made the people happy!
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