Just heard something aweful about MLB package...for dish customers only?

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A friend of mine works for Comcast and he just informed me that Comcast will not be offering the MLB extra innings package!! WTF!!!!! He told me dish network has exclusive rights to NFL and mlb now!! This is bad for cable customers, guess I will have to get it over the net, damn!!
 

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<TABLE class=yspcontent cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=974 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class="" vAlign=top width=720>DirecTV acknowledges agreement with baseball in letter, then says deal not final


<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=7><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>DirecTV acknowledges agreement with baseball in letter, then says deal not final




</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER type="block" width="1" height="1"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><STYLE type=text/css> td.yspwidearticlebody { font-size: 13.5px; }</STYLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=yspwidearticlebody>By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer
March 3, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- DirecTV acknowledged an agreement with Major League Baseball to become the sole television distributor of the sport's out-of-market package in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, saying the deal will benefit consumers.
While the seven-page letter from DirecTV president Chase Carey to the FCC on Friday referred in the second paragraph to "DirecTV's agreement," company spokesman Robert Mercer said later that the letter was incorrect.

<TABLE cellPadding=1 align=left border=0 hspace="10" vspace="5"><TBODY><TR><TD><NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>"The letter should have said proposed agreement. There is no agreement as yet," Mercer said.
Carey's letter was released by Edelman, the company's public-relations firm.
"Consumers will receive a better product, with more content and more features," Carey said in the letter.
The package also has been available on cable television in recent seasons through iNDemand but will be available solely on DirecTV and MLB.com under the new agreement. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., released a letter last month disclosing that the FCC was investigating the deal.
"MLB's proposed deal with Direct TV for the Extra Innings package is stunning in its disregard for baseball fans," iNDemand president Robert Jacobsen said in a statement. "The cable industry offered MLB a non-exclusive deal -- with better overall terms than the DirecTV offer -- that would allow baseball fans across the country to watch their favorite teams regardless of whether they were a satellite, cable or telephone customer."
Carey said in his letter that an estimated 5,000 subscribers to the Extra Innings package would not have access to DirecTV, and he said there were 230,000 subscribers to the package last year outside of DirecTV. He also said DirecTV would make The Baseball Channel available when the network launches in 2009. "Congress did not prohibit all exclusive arrangements," Carey wrote. "It only restricted exclusive arrangements that were the product of market power abuses -- those between dominant cable operators and cable-owned programmers." Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, declined comment.




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Bud Selig needs to grow a pair of balls and stop this.
 

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Bud said this is a great thing its his deal saw him on mike and mike
 

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It screws the cable viewers.
Bud is thinking dollars here, not viewers.
If he wants to market this game, DirectTV is not the way to go.
 

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I have Dish Network so I'm screwed too. What really sucks is that they reeled me in by saying I can get a discount if I agreed to pay for 2006 and 2007. And now they are not offering it. wtf. This is probably going to be some class-action lawsuit crap. I will anxiously await my check of $1.64 in the mail 3 years from now.:WTF:
 

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Bud Selig, MLB Cmsnr.
Bud discusses the league's impending "Extra Innings" pay-per-view TV deal with DirecTV and how that's angered loyal baseball fans without access to a dish. He also discusses whether or not the league has any plans to celebrate Barry Bonds' home run record.
 
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This Bud's for you.:money8:


This is for you Bud!:finger:
 

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Is Bud Selig the worst commissioner ever, regardless of the sport?
 

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This is a walking antitrust violation.


EXPLAIN? these f'ers have been getting away with this in football.is it because they were the ones that started football?
 

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love the dish here both for tv and net service,i would never go back to a cable system.......................ck
 

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My buddy is leaving for work now, I have shown him this thread and he told me, at this point, Comcast is not offering the package, asked him to call me in a few hours if he hears anything from management at the call center regarding further development....but he told me last night that they wont be carring it, I will update when gets bck to me...dosent look good however!!
 

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This is a walking antitrust violation.

Unless someone is able to demonstrate with concrete figures that the bid could have possibly been fixed, the remainder of the process and the contract itself does not fall within the realm of anti-trust violations. Arguing simply on the theoretical grounds of monopoly usually doesn't hold up.
 

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As of now still no word on further developments, but I feel its important to bump this thread to gain as many signatures as we can....good job so far theRX!!:howdy:
 

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