Posted on 10/09/2009 7:48:51 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
OK, I'll start this one, too, just in case it gets interesting.
Josh Becket vs. Jered Weaver.
I thought the girls behind home plate in Yankees Stadium were prettier.
Major League Baseball has shot itself in both feet again. I have no idea where the games are even being televised. Missed all of them so far. No one really promoted the fact that TBS was carrying the games... What ever happened to the major networks carrying playoffs?
They wonder why there is no fan loyalty and no viewer loyalty to the networks...but it is the same reason as their “entertainment” programs — you never know from week to week what time or what evening your favorite show will be televised.
I guess they figure if you're a fan you'll go hunting.
in all business...if you want to know about our stuff, you'll not only go to the website and find the brochure, you'll go to the "basket" and check yourself out. It's enough that they have to receive your payment.
But screw all that. There's a baseball game on. Life is good.
Yeah, even the radio stations never identify the song or the singer, nor the label. How do they expect to sell music anywhere if they never identify it?
ask your kids. they’ve probably got it figured out.
gad pedroia is an easy guy to get fed up with in a hurry. what little snot.
Yawn!
fer sure.
The purpose of songs on the radio stations is to keep you on the station so that you can hear the commercials. That’s basically it. Radio people will tell you that.
The Yankees are the only team that suck worse than the Steelers.
I agree 100%. You must guess. No clue why they picked TBS of all channels. Not interested in the The George Lopez Show... WTF is with Obama that he can’t talk to McChrystal but he can do promos for Lopez Late Night?
It doesn’t look too good for the Red Sox. I’m not surprised the Angels are just playing better right now.
Then why did they get their name from the bad guys in the war of northern aggression-?! Brainchild-!
..it's not over--but tonight feels very good...
yeah they are the best team in baseball this year and over the years they've sucked up 26 World Championships.....Ha, ha!
Either the Angels or Dodgers should beat them. Both have more class-!
Torre has Class....but Manny is a piece of $h!t and has NO CLASS.
Agree with your sundry points. But I still enjoy seeing the Yankees lose. No longer are they the team of Gehrig. Nor are the Orioles the team of Brooks. Sad, really.
The short term purpose of radio may be to just keep you tuned in to hear the commercials, but if the entertainment supply is not fed, soon the supply becomes watered down and poor quality. Oh, that explains the recording industry...
As a long time Washington Senators fan, I say GO ANGELS!!! It will be especially sweet if I can tweak all the Red Sox fans here in New England...shame the Rangers crashed and blew the WC; Rangers/Angels would have been fun.
No doubt. Radio does not help. In the case of Rock, you have the Alternative Rock format, the Active Rock format, the Mainstream Rock format. Active Rock does not like to play anything that doesn’t sound exactly like everything else on the station. Radio is important (or can be) for sales (even if they aren’t mentioning the names of the acts as often as people might like). If a rock band sounds too different from what’s currently on Active Rock Radio, record companies will think twice about signing that band, because they know that it would be difficult to get their band on the radio. So, they sign bands that sound exactly like what’s on the radio now, because they know that it will be easy to get on the radio.
Well if the Rangers had been the WC they would have played the Yankees. WC team can’t play a team in its own division in the first round. That why the Red Sox are playing the Angels instead of the Yankees in this first round. I took a peak at the Boston Globe today and I geuss Curt Shilling had a blog where he said before the series began that these umps are bad. Especialy the 1st base ump in game 1 and that same ump was behind the plate for game 2. Maybe the Red Sox can pull out game 3 but I cant see them winning this series.
I knew that...Yankees wouldn't have been a problem in the first round. :-)
And as a result we end up with the current batch of sound alike garbage, and rather than improve product or increase demand, the recording industry accuses everyone of illegal downloading. That might be simply because none of their material is worth a wooden nickel.
Go Angels!!
There, there.....take come hot milk and have a good night’s sleep.
yes...on nights like those in October that I remember way back in the 50’s, and 60’s, then 77 (who can forget Bucky ‘effin’ Dents HR) and 78....then again in 96, 98, 99 and 2000, I slept like a baby sans milk...I even slept like a baby in 2003 when Boston was knocked out by Aaron ‘effing’ Boone...and it didnt matter that the Yanks didn't win the WS that year....that WAS the WS.
so fear not friend...I sleep well.
the St. Louis fans, at the beginning of the in the 3rd game (going on now) give a STANDING OVATION to Matt Holliday who, in the 2nd game, dropped a sinking line when the ball smacked him into the gut and dropped to the grass — and the Cardinals never recovered in that game....NOW THATS CLASS
NO CLASS
Manny “Manny being Manny’ Ramirez...in the 3rd game (going on now) of the series between the Dodgers and the St Louis at St Louis, sees the home plate umpire hit hard in the chest and throat, in obvious pain and whooops it up in the dugout, thinking it is a wonderful, comedic, occurrence....
Manny is a no class turd...and Torre needs to reign this animal in.
The sport of baseball has been ruined. It was enjoyable when it was still a game, but it has become impossible to remain a fan in recent years. I should not have to track down games on TV.
St. Louie’s fans are the classiest. Their ballplayers get the best treatment in the majors. Baltimore was that good once upon a time, back before that infernal practice of shouting “o” during the Star Spangled Banner.
There certainly is tons of sound alike garbage, and most major label stuff does suck. I’d say it’s radios fault more than the major labels fault. If the majors need radio to sell the product, and the radio needs sound alike crap, the majors provide sound alike crap for the radio to play.
The majors aren’t blameless - they have a tendency to spend too much on songwriters, producers, etc., swinging for a home run every time.
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