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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time
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They have the Playoffs and all, but by God they are losing every team they wanted in it.

I mean Colorado and the Dbacks are a great story but they wont bring the eyeballs that a Cubs or Phillies would have brought

They got a total of 6 games from the NL out of a possible 10 which sucks

In the AL if the Yankees lose today than they are really screwed from a viewers perspective

Not even sure if Boston is good for them if the Yankees are out because LA has no football and is a larger market

Seems like this will be the lowest rated NLCS in history with two teams without a large fanbase
 

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And you know how bad FOX must have wanted a soxs-yanks ALCS.

Not looking good for them either
 

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Don't forget all the advertising revenue they are losing with 3-game sweeps. If all 4 series are a sweep - that's millions and millions of lost ad. rev. Truly a nightmare for the network that ponied up quite a bit to broadcast the series.
 

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Those guys dont want to do it either. Alot of those guys are NBA guys and they don't sound right in this enviroment. Will be interesting to see how the World Series ratings are compared to how bad the finals did this year.
 

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They only have the first rounds of the playoffs. Fox takes over for the league championship series.
 

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i mean dont put on ernie johnson, craig sager, dick stockton, etc. these guys are nba guys, like i said they don't sound right in a baseball enviroment and it doesn't seem like they are too pleased doing this.
 

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ted robinson does primarily tennis, god knows why he's handling the best series this round.
 

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time
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TBS probably has a huge ML bet on the Yankees tonight
 

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Ted Robinson is a full time Mets announcer.

i always get ron darling, keith hernandez, and a third guy that's definitely not him on fsn. Ted's done it a couple times but i've never seen him full time. I only hear Howie on the radio for WFAN also.
 

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800 million just does not go very far these days...

IMO...SCREW TBS...

They overpaid to get the "exclusive rights" for the NL/AL DS and the NLCS...so no one should feel sorry for 'em. Sure a majority of the country has cable/dish/...etc...but some of the older generation baseball fans do not...and so :finger: TBS for overpaying...in order to send those oldtimers (in local markets) out to a watering hole...

Their ratings are horseshit...but lets be honest here...

The studio analysis is a complete joke...who the hell is in charge of their production? It is remedial and pathetic...

Thomas has been an "empty" talking head...and Ripken seems as if he has lost his mind, and the best example of this was on Friday's pre-game coverage when they were analyzing gm.2 COL/PHI and Ripken said he was interested to know if Guerrero would be playing RF for the Angels...as that would be a huge lift for them. HaHaHaHa...Whewww...damn.

Plus who the hell sticks an AL play-by-play guy on an NL series? Orsillo should have called the RedSox...

Brenly should have stayed assigned to the Cubs...etc.
 

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Thomas has been an "empty" talking head...and Ripken seems as if he has lost his mind, and the best example of this was on Friday's pre-game coverage when they were analyzing gm.2 COL/PHI and Ripken said he was interested to know if Guerrero would be playing RF for the Angels...as that would be a huge lift for them. HaHaHaHa...Whewww...damn.

TonyMar

Great catch on the Ripken point about Vlad playing in right. Ripken was acting like putting Vlad back in right is like having Champ Bailey or Urlacher back from injury for the Defense.
 

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bigten...

I could not believe what I was hearing...

I mean here is this HOF SS... making himself look like a complete fool...plus he was talking about the 2nd game...when they were discussing the COL/PHI game...either he is really that stupid...or he has a real bad cocaine problem...

Took me a good 5 minutes to stop laughing after that bit.
 

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they lost me when they tried to d-igitally edit one of the balls ripken threw into a glove. Then they tried putting the d-igital bugs on tv to slam cleveland.

Frank's first day was brutal, the guy barely looked up from the papers which probably said "This is the part where you talk."
 

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