Extra Innings negotiations go well into extra innings
2007-04-03 09:29
by Bob Timmermann
Except this won't end up with any free baseball.
The negotiations between MLB and INDemand and Dish Network over the rights to carry the MLB Extra Innings package are proceeding despite the fact that the March 31 deadline has passed and no deadline exists now, Maury Brown reports on his Business of Baseball Blog.
According to Brown, the sticking point appears to be how much of an equity share INDemand and Dish Network would get in the MLB television channel.
If INDemand doesn't get Extra Innings, then the terrorists have won.
2 The NESN announcers aren't too bad, much better than Rod Allen for the Tigers, or the WS announcers. Hawk Harrelson should be banned under the Geneva Convention.
5 If we sent Hawk Harrelson, Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan over to broadcast the war in Iraq on ISPN (Insurgents and Supporters Programming Network), then the terrorists would surrender posthaste. Of course, then we would be accused of torturing our enemies...
and then there's this infamous picture of Hawk Harrelson:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1968/0902.html
I really can't stand that guy's announcing. But faced with the possiblity of not getting the EI package this year, I am even starting to miss those awful announcing teams. I guess you don't know how much you miss someone until "HE GONE"...
And since Hawk does White Sox games, you'll get a "good" dose of him on WGN. Sadly, I won't be able to come home late and catch the last few innings of Colorado at Arizon.
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Even if INDemand gets Extra Innings back, I think I will skip it this year. I think I need to get the time back in my life.
Or at least I say that now.
2 The NESN announcers aren't too bad, much better than Rod Allen for the Tigers, or the WS announcers. Hawk Harrelson should be banned under the Geneva Convention.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/covers/issues/1968/0902.html
I really can't stand that guy's announcing. But faced with the possiblity of not getting the EI package this year, I am even starting to miss those awful announcing teams. I guess you don't know how much you miss someone until "HE GONE"...
Sorry.
And since Hawk does White Sox games, you'll get a "good" dose of him on WGN. Sadly, I won't be able to come home late and catch the last few innings of Colorado at Arizon.
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