>>> Dennis Claxton:
For baseball. They played last night because television wanted the game played. Howard Bryant, one of the more thoughtful sports writers, says this is another example of baseball playing chicken with its product.
>Baseball executives knew the game would be washed by rain, but
>television demanded the game be played.
>
>The sport gave itself to Fox and the fans paid the price.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/columns/story?columnist=bryant_howard&id=3668144
^^^^ CB: Not to disagree with you, but didn't all major sports sell their souls to television a long time ago ? Doesn't most of their money come from television, not stadium seats ?
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