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So would we. I trust Harris to flip Schoop for something useful way more than I did the former guy.

My wife and I are headed down to Miami to meet up with a buddy of mine who's coming in from Boston, and we will be taking in the Venezuela-Dominican game Saturday night. This will probably be the last game I see without the pitch clock, and if my experience in Cuba is any indication, it will be a four-plus-hour nine-inning extravaganza with vuvuzelas going off constantly around us. It's gonna be a blast. Can hardly wait!

This is definitely Jonathan Schoop's last year with the Tigers, and unless he has a near-All Star season, I would bet he goes in July for someone deep in someone else's system who is on nobody's radar but Scott Harris's.

Coming from the guy who salivated over the prospect of Trump winning the republican nomination in 2016 convinced that he was gonna get smoked by Hillary in the general ... careful what you wish for. Because Trump would probably win a bunch of states and DeSantis would win a bunch of others, including states that went for Biden in 2020, leaving [Insert D Nominee Here] to scrounge for whatever is left over, since it's almost certain they would not pick up even a single Trump 2020 state. And remember: if a candidate does not get the majority of electoral votes in the general election, the final decision goes to the House in the constitutional but nevertheless anti-democratic one state-one vote compromise solution. And in that scenario, a quite likely outcome is Trump becomes president.

The hell you say. Elizabeth Warren is nothing like George Santos. Literally. Nothing.

This comes from the same corner as colored people made white people lynch them because they were too uppity, and women make men rape them because they wear short skirts.

Agreed. They are relying on decades-old tropes about what economic geniuses conservatives are, effectively gaslighting their red hat base who are (perhaps willfully) ignorant of the actual history.

Who the fuck is Brandon J Weichert and why should I care about anything he has to say?

That won’t work for them either because they are failing on economic stuff, too.

Maybe we should!

Ten to fifteen years, maybe it will happen. It definitely won't happen in 2023, which is the issue at hand for MLB.

Because there is a significant segment of the audience for whom streaming is still not their main source of television, and without those viewers having easy access to the games, the ratings would crater. It's true that every year more and more people are cutting the cord, but they are nowhere near the level of critical mass at which point they can simply ignore cable/satellite. We may get there someday, but that's still some years into the future, at least.

No team would want to go to 100% streaming for their regional broadcasts.

The other problem with digital subchannels is that hardly anyone watches them, and also, DirecTV doesn't even feature them.

I don't think both teams use the exact same feed. I think most if not all stadiums have multiple CF cameras, right next to each other, specifically for each team to have its own feed. They probably use single cameras at most other points in the stadium (except maybe the camera wells right next to the dugouts), but I believe each truck has access to the single cameras in case, for instance, the visiting director wants to show a closeup on a particular visiting player they are talking about, or want to show a fan in the stands wearing visiting team gear.

No? Humor too dark?

Kids like this probably beat up your great-grandpa.

Depends when the season starts. If it starts tomorrow, then yes.

I think practically everyone realizes that 2021 (and 2020) were special case seasons requiring an exceptional approach.

This is a good idea. Do the teams fly production crew around now? I honestly don't know. I would think they might fly a truck director and maybe a high-level technician or two, but I would think they use local camera operators. What I think they would have to do (or maybe keep doing) is use separate local crews for each feed, so the visiting team truck director can direct camera shots that focus on their team, rather than accepting whatever the home team crew feeds their monitors.

Given that cost of a product is the result of demand far more than it is the result of the cost of the materials, I don't expect any change in price until they actually start losing subscribers.

I don't think that's likely, either. I mean, they can try it, and someone might, but I think it will cost them once viewers realize the broadcasters are just talking from the studio. It will seem very inauthentic. I could see them trying a Mannings-type thing as a secondary feed, but not as the main feed. This isn't Twitch we're talking about.

Hey, what would you rather have? A kid who’s sucking at the teat of the government “education” system so they can follow in their cuck parents’ libtard footsteps? Or a kid who ignores his loser parents and starts pulling his own weight by getting a job and finally contributing to the economy? Bring your factories on down, gentlemen! Arkansas is open for business!

I don’t think they are going to reduce local game broadcasts to only the home feed because viewership from the visiting team market would crater. People want to hear the game called from their team’s perspective, and they also want continuity of personalities they listen to from game to game—not, Tigers are in Kansas City, who’s calling the game now? If Baseball seriously wants to grow its base, limiting broadcasts to only the local team would be one of the worst things they could do.

Are you thinking they will lower the price of your cable or streaming package if MLB takes over local broadcasts?