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  1. BigbadB
    As of right now, all Comcast games are on EI. I'm not sure how the arrangement works though. That's not the question. I knew that. Did or could DirecTV customers in the Chicago area get Comcast Cub games on DirecTV? Will they still be able to if MLB EI goes exclusive on DirecTV? Shouldn't Comcast have a little say in that? Wouldn't that be sort of a conflict of interest?
  2. BigbadB
    Actually, that raises a really interesting question for Cubs fans on DirecTV. If Comcast airs most Cub games, wouldn't DirecTV have to purchase the right to air games on Comcast? They don't purchase Padres games and they've never aired any that aired on Cox Cable. This could make things a little more interesting.
  3. BigbadB
    You'll have to ask Chicagoans whether they get black out games or not. If Comcast has the rights to most Cub games, I'm not sure how that fits in with DirecTV. I'm guessing they'll be blacked out locally, but I don't know for sure. EI does not feature any post game. The games usually cut off faster than it takes to make the last out of a ball game.
  4. BigbadB
    Is that 100% accurate, though, Vance? DirecTV subscribers with MLB EI in San Diego will not get the Padres games. It's blacked out here on MLB EI. The only way to get Padres games in San Diego is through the cable company. Now, the Padres are different than most other teams, as they broadcast on a cable owned channel, Cox Cable. Most bars in San Diego are not able to broadcast the Padres games because they are DirecTV subscribers. It really hurts their business. Being fair, most bars cannot get regular cable service. I've heard the pricing to run cable to "businesses", and it's not cheap. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 20K just to run the lines.
  5. BigbadB
    How exactly am I suffering? I have DVR. I have digital cable and digital phone. I have the entire cable tv package, which includes a ridiculous amount of premium movie channels. How is that suffering? Sometimes one doesn't know how much he suffers until the suffering ends. What exactly are you referring to when you talk about suffering? I'm assuming you are referring to HD. Aren't all cable providers switching more and more to HD? Won't they all be required to go fully HD by a certain date? If that's the case, what's the difference in HD between cable and dish? I don't own a HD tv yet, therefore there is nothing to suffer for yet. I have 7 tv's plugged in throughout my house, and I don't see the point of buying just 1 HD tv if I watch games on different tv's. Therefore, when I do switch to HD, I will be buying multiple tv's, and the longer I wait, the cheaper those tv's get.
  6. BigbadB
    I don't believe you would lose those Comcast games. MLB EI is more of an out of market package that allows you to view games that are airing locally to their own markets. However, there are black out issues that I'm not familiar with, mainly because I don't live where you live.
  7. BigbadB
    How did I even for a limited time forget about the Lugnuts? Duh. Well, I did just get out of bed.
  8. BigbadB
    I didn't see anything wrong with the question. The guy doesn't live anywhere near Peoria. I lived in Peoria, so I know the Chiefs have been or are affiliated with the Angels, Cubs and Cardinals. How is a guy from Chandler, Indiana supposed to know that unless he's a die hard baseball fan like us? Can all of you name all the teams that have been affliated with each and every small town minor league club for the last several years? Careful, there just might be a test. Heck, I don't even know who most minor league teams are affiliated with. Fort Wayne? I don't know without looking it up. I don't even remember who the Cubs were affiliated with when they weren't in Peoria. Someone will remind me in a few moments, and I'll say "Oh yeah!". But, the question wasn't that absurd.
  9. BigbadB
    Less than 10% is simply an eloquent way to say that MILLIONS of people still can't get DirecTV. 10%. What is that? 30 million people? Something like that? Oh yeah, the numbers are very small. Heck, you can probably get 30 million people in a baseball stadium. :roll:
  10. BigbadB
    How exactly am I suffering? I have DVR. I have digital cable and digital phone. I have the entire cable tv package, which includes a ridiculous amount of premium movie channels. How is that suffering?
  11. BigbadB
    Yep. Build your team strong enough to overcome injuries. Because injuries are going to happen. Plain and simple.
  12. BigbadB
    And I've seen no one touch on Frostwyrm's very valid point that Hendry has been given an open wallet during his tenure to make something happen. His payroll this year is probably 30m more than they had to work with in 2002. Last year, it was at least 20m more than was spent in 2002. Each year Hendry has been here, he's had more money to work with than the year before, and each year he's blown the money in a ridiculous way. I hope he's finally figured it out. Because the teams he put on the field the last few years were pathetic. He set the teams up to fail. He had no back up plans for when a guy like Lee has to miss some time. He never has someone decent available when someone goes down. When Alex Gonzalez got hurt, he was tossing Rey Ordonez out there. When Walker needed to play first, he was tossing Tony Womack out there. When Matt Murton was struggling, he stuck Freddie Bynum out there. And then there are the failures to recognize a problem and fix it. Jacque Jones played everyday. Everyone in the Cubs organization all the way down to the fans knows the guy can't hit a left handed pitcher to save his life.
  13. BigbadB
    So the Cubs were 4 games over .500 when Lee got hurt and Ramirez was horrible along with Jones and Pierre. Lee got hurt on April 19th. On May 1st, they were still 4 games over .500. With your logic (and small sample size), I suppose we can assume that if Ramirez, Jones and Pierre continued sucking and Lee never came back, they should have finished the season 4 games over .500 since they were able to maintain a 4 game advantage after the Lee injury.
  14. BigbadB
    I think the point AmazingGrace was trying to make is that Hendry has progressively gotten worse. So, if you discount 2002 and call 2003 Hendry's first real season, he has progressively gotten worse. 2003 was an amazing season. However, ANY GM could have improved upon the 2002 season. The trend will end this year. There is no way Hendry could end up worse than they were last year.
  15. BigbadB
    Can they play SS?
  16. BigbadB
    Some of you are acting like AmazingGrace's comment was way off base. I don't see it that way. Okay, yes, the Cubs have not gotten progressively worse each year of his tenure. However, I do not count 2002 as a year of his tenure since he was taking over the position and the mess someone else made mid season. Yes, the Cubs won one more game in 2004 than they did in 2003. Short of that one win, they have gotten progressively worse. However, they went from 1st, to 3rd, to 4th to 6th since 2003 in the standings. Many will argue that the final standings have more significance than the final win count. Getting to the playoffs is definitely significant. Regardless of his past, he really can't get much worse than he was this past year, and I'm actually fairly pleased with his offseason. I still have some concerns about the direction of this club, but I'll hold off judgment until the season starts and I actually see that direction.
  17. BigbadB
    :lmao:
  18. BigbadB
    It wouldn't surprise me to see Cedeno at Iowa, at least until he gets his confidence back. Cedeno isn't fully developed. He'll be able to finish his development in AAA much better than sitting on the bench in Chicago.
  19. BigbadB
    :shock: Yeah, a bit shocking. However, Tampa had a total of 3 bullpen arms with ERA+ in the 100's last year. Novoa had an ERA+ of 109. No, he's not setting the world on fire, but he's fairly cheap and small market teams like that a lot. Only 9 of 38 inherited runners scored on Novoa last year. Some of his peripherals aren't all that bad. I've certainly seen worse.
  20. BigbadB
    Buck Coats could be the one to go. Yeah, scouring the list of people on the 40 man roster, there really aren't all that many people who the Cubs can easily drop. Coats is probably one of them. I could see a minor deal like Novoa for a PTBNL happening instead, but after that, there isn't much else. I would think Novoa would be of some value to some teams out there, but his value to the Cubs 40 man roster is next to nil considering the depth in the bullpen.
  21. BigbadB
    My only benefit to this is their huge windfall of cash won't be coming from me. And I hope that many more take my stance on this.
  22. BigbadB
    I didn't say I would give up watching baseball. I just won't be watching games on MLB EI or MLB.com. I'll still see highlights of games on ESPN. I'll still be able to watch all the Padres games since Cox shows them all on their cable network. I'll still be able to see the ESPN games, the WGN games, the TBS games, a few Fox games that show the Dodgers/Angels, and the game of the week. When Cox, Comcast, Time Warner all find out that they will be shut out of MLB for the next 7 some odd years, maybe they can strike up a deal with some network to show more college and minor league games. I'd be fine with that. When DirecTV starts losing money on this deal (750,000 total subscribers of MLB EI last year and many of those will not go to the trouble of switching providers to continue service), DirecTV will have to raise the package price. How much will you be willing to pay for it? They will not raise it right away. But, eventually they will. Why? Because they can. Once they got a firm grip of your privates, they won't let go. You won't be able to switch to someone else for the service. Part of the reason it only costed $149-$179 was because there were other providers competing to keep the cost down. Through Cox Communications (my provider), I would have been willing to pay even double the price to have MLB EI in my living room. But, I'm not going to switch providers. Why should I have to? It's the 21st Century. I should be able to order up baseball games no matter who my cable provider is. I'm disappointed that you don't agree with this, but to each their own. As a consumer, I would think you would want competitive pricing to be in place to keep costs down, but we aren't all built the same I suppose.
  23. BigbadB
    I can't decide if he wants to downplay the importance of it (Peyton has never wanted to talk about his injuries when he has had them, of course they've never been serious enough for him to miss a single game in his career) or just a little bit of gamesmanship. I think it's the former, but I can't be sure. I wasn't aware that Peyton told Sorgi to "be ready" until I watched the NFL Replay last night. Since he was able to continue in the AFC Championship, I don't think it's a big deal. He pretty much had to continue in the AFC Championship game. But, all during that time, he kept working the thumb to avoid it tightening/swelling up. It is when you quit working it that it tightens up and causes a problem. But, with nothing showing up on x-ray and 2 weeks to heal, he'll probably be fine. Whether he'll still be fine the first time he gets hit hard is another question.
  24. BigbadB
    Yes, making an agreement with DirecTV is definitely on par with canceling a World Series. The strike was 13 years ago. Let it go, man. No, I'm not going to let it go. This agreement with DirecTV is on par with cancelling the entire viewable baseball season for everyone who doesn't have or want DirecTV. Corporate greed wins again. The fans? Not so much.
  25. BigbadB
    They won't need anymore for awhile if they lock down Zambrano. :wink:
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