There's something odd to me about MLB wheeling out Tommy Lasorda to do
these ads encouraging fans of eliminated teams to still follow the
postseason. It's funny inasmuch as Fox spends all its time tryingto
appeal to younger demographics with all of their sound effects and
graphics and whatever else, and so then they bring out a guy for whom
younger demographics included newly retired baby boomers.

But it's the message that makes me laugh. When Fox had a subway series
years ago they had such terrible ratings outside NY that they had to
give away free ads to make up for the shortfall and tried blaming the
Nielsen company for bad sampling. Now that we have a potential subway
series again, they're begging everybody else's fans to keep watching.

Colin

Colin William wrote:

"Please don't hold the fact that the Yankees bought Bobby Abreu against
us...."

s/

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:43:23 -0400, Colin William
<colintwilliam@hotmail.com> wrote:


I liked the part with him coaxing the BoSox fan out from behind a
locked door by saying (paraphrasing), "This is the time of year to
root *against* the Yankees."

And if it is a NY vs. NY WS, it's called a "sewer-way series".:-)

> "Please don't hold the fact that the Yankees bought Bobby Abreu

seriously, if they don't do something about this in the cba, they're
going to have to make two leagues: ny, boston, chicago and la in one
league, everyone else in the other.

--
Ben

In article <1160158671.582761.221200@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.c om>,
"Ben B" <bblankin@hotmail.com> wrote:


Yeah this looks aweful what with chicago and the red sox doing so well
this post-season and the dodgers not far behind. And the mets have such
a long history or recent post season success.

dick
-- ya know, if Randy Johnson's back explodes tonight, it's possible for
the evil empire to actually not make the playoffs. Then george can
trade ARod to some deserving team to get rid of the curse. Chipper +
something for ARod --- I'd do it.

Dick Sidbury wrote:

Is this one of those old people moments where I should just smile and pat
Gramps on the head or should I go ahead and tell Dick that the Yankees are
currently playing in the playoffs?

Alan Honeycutt wrote:

Maybe he thinks the playoffs don't really start until the LCSs?

Eh, maybe he's senile. I'd trade Chipper and something not
insubstantial for ARod. In a heart beat.

s/

In article <4onvjkFfnd95U1@individual.net>,
"Alan Honeycutt" <Arch.Nemesis.Hostel.1.3@bellsouth.net> wrote:


That would be a possible explanation-- or it could be that I typed
playoffs when I meant world series.

dick
-- you know, like the baseball playoffs used to be in days of yore.

Ben B wrote:

My original idea on this a few years ago was for them to dissect the
Yanks and Mets and create the NYLB. [Slogan: EVERY Series is the Subway
Series!]

But I guess you would have to have some slight variation. And it'd be a
shame to lose the Yanks/Sox blood feuds. So maybe NYY, NYM, Boston
and... some other team we wouldn't miss. The Phillies, to balance the
league loss? The Jays for closeness of geography?

In article <1160185452.739318.196050@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
"NickM" <nickmonitto@yahoo.com> wrote:


The Devil Rays are from Steinbrenner's hone town and they wouldn't be
missed. They aren't even major league.

The Dodgers used to be from NY so they have some historical reason to be
part of the picture.

How about the Twins? Any team that had Hrbek should be a candidate for
contraction ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H this new opportunity.

Oh, and of course the Cubs are always an option.

Oh, and with such a wonderful league, probably Fox should broadcast
their games and use Tim McCarver exclusively.

dick
-- then some other network could do RotWLB (Rest of the World).