To watch or not to watch – that is the question. Baseball’s resumption in one month presents a huge question for Cubs fans. Do we trust content providers like Comcast and YouTube to get a deal done with the Marquee Network, change providers, or forego Cubs baseball for the 60-game sprint to the playoffs. I […]
Billionaires care most about money. That’s why they are billionaires. Major League Baseball franchise owners are billionaires, so why does it surprise anyone that they are united it their refusal to pony up $20 million each to get players back on the field? The discord between owners and the players union is easy to explain. […]
Baseball needs to get its head out of its ass or suffer the consequences. Our society craves a feeling of shared sacrifice and empathy for one another. Between the riots and Coronavirus, many feel isolated, agitated, and downright afraid of what might happen next. Baseball has responded by bickering over how many millions of dollars men […]
Who can and can’t watch Cubs baseball? No one knows. Fans thought that signing up for DirecTV or Hulu+ would allow then to catch Saturday’s spring training opener. For a variety of reasons, that didn’t happen for any of the Hulu+ subscribers and some of the DirecTV folks. Marquee still has no deal with YouTube TV, […]
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My disdain for the owner of the Chicago Cubs is pretty well chronicled – and well-founded. Tom Ricketts and his family extract as much cash as they possibly can from the wallets of fans, and I object to that level of snow-blind profiteering at the expense of people who were born into fandom for the […]
by Kent Sterling There are hip sports fans, and then there are the dated and weird fans that we only see at the sporting events they have became inexorably linked to. Jack Nicholson will be forever hip even as he makes fewer movies, but he doesn’t miss many – if any – Lakers games. Jon […]