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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?

I just hope the broadcasts don't look like MLB Network broadcasts, complete with MLB Network promotional and gambling odds detritus on the screen.

That's fine as long as he doesn't take the ball with him.

I think "ERod" falls into that "not so much" category. 😏

I would think that Hinch would not force Rodriguez to throw pitch he has no command of or feel for in a particular moment just because the data say, although who knows for sure. But Hinch strikes me as emotionally intelligent enough to get on that same page with Rodriguez and still maintain control of the game plan, provided Rodriguez will allow that. Based on the reporting coming out of camp this past weekend, though, it looks as though Rodriguez might be trying to take that control into his own hands, and using the media to put pressure on the issue. It will be interesting to see how it all comes out.

It is very traditional and even romantic for pitchers to call their own pitches based on their gut instead of the information about hitters they are provided. It very much dovetails into a heroic narrative about the pitcher as a gunslinger taking on and beating all comers on his own terms. The $64 question is, does a pitcher calling a game based on his gut lead to more wins than the dugout calling the pitch based on the information?

I just logged onto my SSA account and what I am due to receive at 67 is not 75% of age 70 (i.e., 36/48), but actually 80.6%. So if I wait until age 70, it would take me until I am 82 years and five months before I match the total amount of money I would get if I elect to start at age 67. So it looks like we were both off roughly the same amount in opposite directions. If I take what I am due at age 62, it would take me until age 80 and six months to match the figure.

Yeah, this definitely fits here. From Friday:

How so?

Nothing. Baby born, life wins, the end.