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  1. moorecg
    understatement of the year.
  2. moorecg
    Who is #2 and #3 then? I'd guess you've got Reyes up there...but Mulder isn't in the rotation till June at best...so you've got 1. Carp 2. Reyes 3. Wainwright? 4. Wells 5. Brad Thompson? That's the only way I see Wells as their #4 unless I'm forgetting somebody completely. That's a pretty weak rotation no matter how you slice it.
  3. moorecg
    this is 100% a subcontractor problem. I've had the DirecTV guys at my house 3 times, and only once did they not do the job (due to not having a tall enough ladder....they did not return again). It is definitely not just a subcontractor problem. It's a directv/directech problem. Directv is setting up installation dates that they can't handle. It's not a matter of a guy showing up with the wrong stuff, it's a matter of directv trying to sell more hardware than they actually have, and putting a greater emphasis on getting new customers over keeping existing customers. I estimated I've spent about $20,000 on their service over the years, and they've given me all sorts of garbage about being an A-list customer. I've been given all sorts of rebates and crap in the past few months, but they aren't getting the job done. This is the exact problem I had with them...although I told them where to shove their dish after only 4 cancelled appointments...they installed it on the last one but installed it poorly and I got crappy reception...their "customer service" people said they could'nt help...and didn't care at all about the fact that I'd taken off a 1/2 day 3 different times to wait for them...
  4. moorecg
    I'm pretty damn sure I could get past summary judgment. :D
  5. moorecg
    No they shouldn't be able to just reprint SI, but they SHOULD be able to cover baseball. This makes it so they can't do that. Same thing with the singers example...no, they can't take eminem, but they can sign other singers...here there are no other "singers" and it has become this way in large part due to the antitrust exemption. MLB was given the exemption to help the game flourish...now they are attempting to extend it further than the exceptions original intentions.
  6. moorecg
    What I don't get is why DirecTV Subscribers think this is such a great deal. They were already getting this. All this deal does is make people w/o DirecTV unable to get it...its not like the DirecTV people get more.
  7. moorecg
    I'm one of those 10%...I even had them come out and set it up at the beggining of last football season but there was too much blockage that the signal never held...it'd lock up every 15-20 min...I tried it for a week and then had them come take it out as I couldn't see living with it for a 2 year commitment if I couldn't even watch a 30 min program without pixilation problems... I also have my high speed internet and phone through my cable company making a switch would be basically impossible.
  8. moorecg
    I went with Izturis...something tells me that Marquis just might be borderline acceptable this year in the 5 spot. If so, thats a great over achievment from current expectations....plus, he hits better than Izturis.
  9. moorecg
    Pure distilled evil, imo. I think the appropriate term is highly enriched weapons grade evil.
  10. moorecg
    Quoted for truth.
  11. moorecg
    That's the thing...I'm not sure its a huge windfall of cash. The numbers I've heard quoted work it out to only about 1 million more per team per year. While a million is nothing to sneeze at for you and me, in baseball terms it gets you about 1/2 of a Henry Blanco...I'd think avoiding the bad publicity on this and keeping the "super fans" happy would easily be worth a mill to most baseball clubs.
  12. moorecg
    This is the crux of my stance. DirecTV's MLBEI will be much better than what's available now. The problem with this stance is that it doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. You can have DirecTV access and cable access...that's the way its always been. Now it may be better for DirecTV subscribers who have High Def cabablity...but that # is sooo much smaller than the people who were able to get it before that its a net loss. I think of it as turning an entire stadium into luxury suites...no regluar seating available for anyone. You can't argue that the suites are "nicer" to sit in...they are, and they get better service and have more features...but you can argue quite effectively that the arrangement is NOT better for the guy who always had season tickets in the upper deck and doesn't have any way to upgrade to the suite.
  13. moorecg
    It would make life here in St. Louis a hell of a lot easier. Tell me about it. Where do you work? I can see Bush III out my window right now.
  14. moorecg
    That Sir, is my job. :D
  15. moorecg
    It would make life here in St. Louis a hell of a lot easier.
  16. moorecg
    No. They bilk the company out of four receivers and a dish, pay two years' worth of lowest-tier programming and then bail. But doesn't this go against your argument? If these people aren't the ones buying MLB-EI then DirecTV's monopolization of MLB-EI will do nothing to keep them. At best, it would only serve to keep other consumers, which would result in you and I having to pay for their "bottom feeding" The reason I think this might result in a suit is that there was already a market for this product. With Sunday Ticket, it was a new innovative thing that started with DirecTV, here, for the last few years numerous outlets have been selling the product, going only to DirecTV now eliminates an established market. There is where your anticompetitive conduct arises.
  17. moorecg
    I can't remember it either, but between the Mets channel, WGN, and WTBS and your local home teams channel, you could get an awful lot of NL games back in the day...sure miss those days.
  18. moorecg
    Agreed, although i think the decrease in WGN Games has a lot more to do with WGN going to a "network" affiliation and choosing not to broadcast all the Cubs games...someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's a MLB call.
  19. moorecg
    I think this may be correct (absent playoffs and maybe some local broadcasting stations), and would actually be preferable (at least to me) to the current set up of DirecTV being the only route to get it. I don't mind paying for Cubs games, what I'm mad about is being forced to switch carriers. Baseball can't get people to watch the World Series for free I don't see how they would go to a pay-per-view. Plus, IMO you lose fans, especially young fans doing this. If the games are at bars how are kids going to watch them? That's why I made the exception for playoffs and some local broadcasts. I don't think you'll ever see the WS go to pay per view, and I think you'll always probably be able to get most of your home town team's games for basically free, but I can see the potential for PPV on out of market games in both football and baseball. That's basically what the Extra-Innings was, but you payed "per season". I don't mind paying for it, I just think everyone should be able to buy it if they want.
  20. moorecg
    I think this may be correct (absent playoffs and maybe some local broadcasting stations), and would actually be preferable (at least to me) to the current set up of DirecTV being the only route to get it. I don't mind paying for Cubs games, what I'm mad about is being forced to switch carriers.
  21. moorecg
    Is that the same Jeremi Gonzalez of early 1997-98 Cubs fame?
  22. moorecg
    And these "bottom feeders" as you call them, are the ones out buying up $200 MLB-EI packages? Under Section One of the Sherman Act, combinations in restraint of trade are illegal. Section Two of that Act covers monopolization and attempts to monopolize. I feel pretty comfortable in saying that you could state a claim under either section...whether you'd win or not is a different story and likely dependent on how the relevant market is defined, but I don't see this as a "pro-competitive" move. (and before you ask, aside from being a pissed off former MLB-EI subscriber, and ardent Cubs fan stuck in STL who's only way of getting this is through cable as DirecTV doesn't Work at my house, yes, I'm also an antitrust attorney).
  23. moorecg
    I doubt this "churn" you talk about is all that significant, considering DirecTV in most instances requires a 2 year commitment, that if you pull out of you end up having to pay several hundred in "fees" that they otherwise dont' charge you for. Also, if people are so willing to leave DirecTV as soon as their commitment is up doesn't that go against your earlier statements that their service and product is so great? Moreover, doesn't them wanting to stop a "churn" really mean they want to stop competition? You're basically saying that they are attempting to keep people tied to them they to eliminate the competitiors ability to compete. That's the very essence of an antitrust violation. They are trying to take away the publics ability to choose alternative products.
  24. moorecg
    Just think...we could get Fair and Balanced Cubs Coverage. I can see it now: Cubs Bats come Alive in the 7th scoring 3 runs! final score 14-3
  25. moorecg
    Solid bat off the bench.
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