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3T	Los Angeles Dodgers	64	60	.516	W1
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12	Cleveland	56	67	.455	C4
13	Kansas City	55	69	.444	C5
14	Seattle	46	78	.371	W4

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Get ready for some exciting Senate testimony!

2007-03-26 18:07

by Bob Timmermann

At 10 am ET/7 am PT (and don't bring up Arizona or Hawai'i), it will be time to be glued to your computer so you can listen to the streaming audio from the hearings from the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

The hearing is titled: Exclusive Sports Programming: Examining Competition and Consumer Choice and it will be held in the Russell Senate Office Building room 253. That's where I testified about the New York Times' excessive use of periods in the spelling of UCLA. Strangely, there were no Senators present at that time.

Scheduled to testify in front of likely just two senators, John Kerry and Arlen Specter, will be:

Rob Jacobson, president of INDemand
Stephen Ross, a law professor at Penn State
Bob DuPuy, President and CEO of Major League (his business card reads, "Good idea, Bud!')
Chase Carey, CEO of the DirecTV Group, Inc.
Chase Carey's mustache
Carl Vogel, President and Vice Chairman of EchoStar Satellite LLC. (aka Dish Network)

The end result of this will likely be nothing. But if you want to listen, you can stop by CaptiolHearings.org for streaming audio.

Kerry is making claims that 60 million people could lose access to their favorite team, although that would assume that there are 60 million people who really want the ability to be able to listen to the dulcet tones of Michael Kay telling how you aren't as smart as he is or Keith Hernandez telling you that he was a really great player or Mark Grace saying something that would get him fired if he worked for a team that people knew existed or Jim Palmer trying to make us believe the Orioles are a relevant team. Some people might even miss watching the Devil Rays on TV.

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Comments

2007-03-26 18:59:35

1. Chyll Will

Couldn't we just lock them all in and throw away the key? Then we can distribute the channels among the hungry... with salsa!

2007-03-26 19:11:47

2. Philip Michaels

Chase Carey's mustache is not here to talk about the past.

2007-03-26 19:42:23

3. Eric Enders

It seems Stephen Ross is something of an anti-antitrust exemption activist.

http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/Archives/247.ashx

2007-03-26 20:16:58

4. rfessenden

They should also be webcasting on the Senate Commerce Committee website -- the link to it usually doesn't go live until right before the hearing.

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=1838

2007-03-26 20:43:28

5. Bob Timmermann

I thought you could only get the webcast if you had DirecTV.

2007-03-26 20:50:14

6. El Lay Dave

I might rather subject myself to infinite loop replays of UNC choking away their final four appearance (and my bracket's last gasp) than torturing myself with a Chase Carey appearance.

Now if Arlen Specter would play the Ryan Stiles role and make jokes at Carey's expense....

2007-03-26 21:07:14

7. das411

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

(yes, already)

2007-03-27 10:25:33

8. Trojan Ron

When I was a kid, (after walking back and forth uphill to school) we didn't have more than one baseball game a day on TV ... AND WE LIKED IT!

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