It's tough to feel connected to society when it's obvious that human beings are the most selfish species ever created. An animal that kills, kills to survive. A human's greed is out of pure ego, though.
The yankees and tigers play three times in the next day (saturday night, sunday during the day, and monday night. This will be the last time that the Yankees are in detroit, so they HAVE to finish off the series.
The obvious solution is to play a double header on saturday. If MLB wants to be just slightly greedy, they can still make it a day-night double header and charge two admissions. But "slight greed" isn't enough to make it in the corporate world. Having such a game would "interfere" with Fox's saturday "window" of exclusive broadcasts. Mind you, that window SHOULD be 4 pm, when they actually broadcast, but they extend it all the way to 1 pm. As though news corp. itself would go out of business if it had to compete with a random 1 pm game on a late august saturday. So, saturday is out, but is sunday in? No, because ESPN owns sunday nights. And since Monday is too dangerous (it's a travel day), the only alternative is to play the game at 11 pm on a friday night.
I'll never be able to hate Michael Kay the same way, b/c he was really upset about how friday night's game hurt the fans. Good for him. Even I can't imagine waiting around 4 hours for a game. What a disgusting display of greed and short-sightedness. There is nothing left in American society that is pure anymore. Everything has dollar signs wrapped around it.
Let's go China!
The yankees and tigers play three times in the next day (saturday night, sunday during the day, and monday night. This will be the last time that the Yankees are in detroit, so they HAVE to finish off the series.
The obvious solution is to play a double header on saturday. If MLB wants to be just slightly greedy, they can still make it a day-night double header and charge two admissions. But "slight greed" isn't enough to make it in the corporate world. Having such a game would "interfere" with Fox's saturday "window" of exclusive broadcasts. Mind you, that window SHOULD be 4 pm, when they actually broadcast, but they extend it all the way to 1 pm. As though news corp. itself would go out of business if it had to compete with a random 1 pm game on a late august saturday. So, saturday is out, but is sunday in? No, because ESPN owns sunday nights. And since Monday is too dangerous (it's a travel day), the only alternative is to play the game at 11 pm on a friday night.
I'll never be able to hate Michael Kay the same way, b/c he was really upset about how friday night's game hurt the fans. Good for him. Even I can't imagine waiting around 4 hours for a game. What a disgusting display of greed and short-sightedness. There is nothing left in American society that is pure anymore. Everything has dollar signs wrapped around it.
Let's go China!
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