Should’ve come out in a cover Tua.

How dare deadspin publish a post by Mr. Petchesky, with his slavic sounding name, on this, the 5th anniversary of the Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash in Slovenia. I am aghast at the insensitivity.

Deadspin not having a problem with this stupid shit is exactly what I expected. Bravo, pussies.

Understandable. It is just like when they pulled Hannah Storm from announcing New Orleans Saints games in 2005.

It was cool how you found a way to diminish the idiocy of ESPN’s decision while blaming those reporting the change for the reaction it caused. Very adept. This site’s ability to discern who gets the benefit of the doubt and who doesn’t is never surprising.

Also, I remember a time when, if you wanted to watch certain matches, you paid $20 (for a single match!) to Setanta Sports, or go to a bar that charged, yup, $20 cover. And that was an improvement from when there wasn’t even a PPV option!

It’s even more pronounced in soccer, especially foreign soccer, in that you don’t get that sweet ad money like in other American sports.

Couple of things - we were probably underpaying for the games that were streaming-only. Having to shell out more money sucks, but I’m okay with paying for things of value (even if it’s to entities that are swimming in cash).

You’re right Billy. Television should follow the exact same business model the newspapers did regarding the internet. It worked out so well for them.

Is this the same person who was jealous of the women who were fortunate enough to have an abortion? Or am I confusing this person with the woman who assumed OBJ must be misogynistic for not being interested in her goofy ass at some gala?

Yup. Much as I hate the Trumpkins using “PC culture run amok!” as an excuse to be awful racist shitbirds, the fact is that we have gotten to easily offended. Anything having to do with race? Racist. Anything having to do with sex? Sexist. Anything having to do with gender? Transphobic.

She wrote 5 paragraphs explaining how the K thing is in fact, not arbitrary at all. How it grew into a fun tradition without any connection to the Klan at all. (As someone who spent a few games in the Fenway bleachers watching the crowd cheer as Pedro’s K list grew, it was fun! And I fucking hate the Sox.)

“For any knowledgable baseball fan, that’s basically irrelevant and easy to ignore, but for newcomers to the game, it can raise concerns. Last year, during Game 7 of an instantly legendary World Series, the triple-K was displayed, and people somewhat understandably moaned.”

When you become outraged at everything, you are outraged at nothing.

The sheer randomness of their inception, though, means it would be totally fine if we one day decided to change them, too.

If people in England could watch all EPL games for $50 per year, there would be a national celebration. Even in Canada, it costs $20 ($15 U.S.) per month.

This is a smart decision financially on their part— other than the fact you can’t get all the matchups. Americans are never going to adopt an early morning sport played entirely overseas.

Sunday Ticket already blacks out the local broadcasts. Always have. Same reason NBC is doing so, the contracts force them to.

By Billy Haisley

So it’s basically like Sunday Ticket then?