Cubs ST Games on Comcast

[CubbieRich]

Comcast Sports in Chicago will only be broadcasting 2 Cubs spring training games. Jim Corno of Comcast says he offered to televise 9-10 games, but the Cubs only wanted 2. Sounds strange that the Cubs wouldn't want the most number of games. The White Sox are filling up the remaining spots the Cubs left on the table, so they should have around 17-18 ST games.

 

This is yet another bad decision by John McDonough.

[JWCUB]

I wonder what the purpose of that decision was. Really odd.

[treebird]

this is like when a movie studio has a movie that they know is bad but has high expectations from the public before it's released, so they refuse to let critics do advance screenings, so that people don't know how bad it is before it gets out to the public.

[UMFan83]

Maybe they have a top secret player from Afghanastan that they don't want the public to know about

[daske17]

There are more costs involved in producing a baseball game than just saying "okay." The biggest would be having Bob and Len agree to call the game since they probably have a set number of pre-season games as part of their contract.

 

Then there are the costs for cameramen, etc. (although I'm not sure if the Cubs pay those salaries or the network that is using the cameramen).

 

And, it's not like the Cubs need to sell their product the way the Sox do (even though they won a championship, the Cubs are still more popular).

 

Although as a fan I want to see more spring training games, I understand why they didn't want to.

[UMFan83]

Eh, I look forward to the spring games too, but for some reason I usually can't sit through an entire game. Probably because I know that there is almost no relevence between Spring performance and regular season performance.