As you probably know, the MLB season just started this past Sunday. As a baseball fan, I enjoy watching games on TV. This leads us up to last night.
Last night there were several MLB games scheduled, a few NBA games scheduled, and the Women’s NCAA basketball tournament finals.
Knowing this, when I got home from work I checked out the upcoming TV schedule to see what was coming on (and hoping the A’s would somehow have been on). My local cable company has ESPN and ESPN2 on sequential channels (27 and 28). As I was flipping the channels, I saw that the Women’s tourney was on BOTH espn and espn 2. So, thinking that this is just a misprint on the guide, I wait for the game and then double check. They are in fact airing the same thing on the two different channels. This thing shouldn’t even be televised, and it is on two ESPN channels.
Who was the marketing genius that came up with this strategy? “Okay, we have a tournement final that no one wants to see. Let’s tie up both of our channels showing it. Oh, and can we get last year’s tourney on the Classic channel? No? Damn.”
Seriously, you have a slew of MLB games and a few NBA games and you are playing the Tourney on both channels? You could have at least thrown on a World’s Strongest Man competion marathon on ESPN 2.
Anyway, due to ESPN’s double billing of the same program, I had more sport viewing options reduced to three. The options were:
1) Watch the Women’s Tourney (Not going to happen. Ever.)
2) Watch the local MLB telecast (and by local, I mean a Florida team. In this case it was the Florida Marlins… and they were playing the Washington Nationals).
3) Watch a local High School baseball game (some how this made TV. Don’t ask me how).
No NBA in sight. One crappy MLB game. And because MLB’s infinite wisdom, I don’t have access to MLB Extra Innings first week free preview.
So, as you may have guessed, I ended up watching part of the H.S. baseball game and then retired to the Study to view some episodes of Red Dwarf.
April 4, 2007 at 10:20 am |
Yeah, but is that really as bad as the NCAA Men’s tournament getting prime time billing on a national station? I mean come on, who gives a shit. I watched some of that and it looked like the same cast of wanna be AIs that come into the league every year. Neither one of these teams played like a team and the only person that really impressed me was Odon because he seemed to be the only person on the court having a good game. Florida would run down the court and toss up a three into a sea of red, I don’t care who you are, as a point guard you should not be the first one down court and then just pop a three. Where are the fundamentals? Where is the team ball? Why is there such a stress onindividual success instead of team success?
April 4, 2007 at 11:28 am |
There’s no body in the study.