Say No To MLB Deal with DirectTV

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1. 151
   Name: Jason Nordhaus on Feb 9, 2007

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2. 152
   Name: Brian Schwartz on Feb 9, 2007

   Comments: I am a cable subscriber and have purchased the Extra Innings package for the past several years. I do not want to subscribe to DIRECTV. Please do not sell an exclusive license to DIRECTV for the Extra Innings package. Thank you.

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3. 153
   Name: Brooker Maltais on Feb 9, 2007

   Comments: This deal will ensure that I will no longer be able to watch my favorite team play any games other than those broadcast nationally on ESPN or Fox (whose baseball coverage is excruciatingly bad). I do not live in the home market for my team and I am unable (due to lease restrictions) to install a dish on my apartment. I have purchased the EI package for the last 4 years.

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4. 154
   Name: Jeffrey Collins on Feb 9, 2007

   Comments: I am unable to switch to Directv because I do not have line of sight to the signal. This takes away a service that I have been able to purchase for the last several years.

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5. 155
   Name: Brent Simmons on Feb 9, 2007

   Comments: i cannot get directv in my apartment. i will have no options to continue watching EI

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6. 156
   Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

   Comments: I have had Extra Innings every year beginning in 2002. I am a Red Sox fan first but a fan of baseball generally. I love to watch the Red Sox and other out of market games. It was frustrating enough that, despite the fact I live in Winston-Salem, NC, in the past I was blacked out from watching the Braves, Orioles, Nationals and Reds, which could account for 25% of the games on a given day. Now MLB is forcing me either to switch to Directv, which is not an option, or watch baseball only on my computer, which is not ideal either. I am planning to travel to spring training this year as I do every year and take a separate trip this year with my father and brother to see the Hall of Fame and 8 MLB games in 8 cities over a two week period. Now MLB is telling me in no uncertain terms that my support is irrelevant. MLB is not just a business, it is the keeper of America's passtime and as such, it has a greater responsibility to the game than to simply do what is best for its short term bottom line. My children would have grown up as Red Sox fans and baseball fans in general too, but now you have deprived them and me of the ability to watch the very games that would have made them fans.

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7. 157
   Name: Jon on Feb 9, 2007

   Comments: MLB needs to increase it's fan base not prevent people from watching games

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8. 158
   Name: Chip Boisvert on Feb 9, 2007

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9. 159
   Name: Jordan Pransky on Feb 9, 2007

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10. 160
    Name: Cynthia Saporetti on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: What a disservice to baseball fans!

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11. 161
    Name: Sean Wilson on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: shortsighed as usual.

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12. 162
    Name: James Harrod on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Ridiculous. For those of us living in urban areas (I live in NYC), we cannot subscribe to satellite services, to make an exclusive deal is insulting and seemingly counter to the notion that you should make your product as widely available as possible. This smacks, of greedy short-term thinking aimed at driving people to MLB.tv - an inferior product. It is also extremely cynical to give up on this product before it was ever properly marketed to cable subs.

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13. 163
    Name: Sharon Waterman on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Since most of us who live in condos or apartments cannot receive the DirecTV signal, we're effectively cut off from baseball (unless we're willing to sit at a desk and watch on a computer every day). Very, very short-sighted move for the future of baseball and may present antitrust problems.

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14. 164
    Name: Jennifer on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Don't deny me my Red Sox, Major League Baseball. I live in an area where getting DirecTV is NOT possible. I refuse to buy MLB.TV because it's a shitty product.

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15. 165
    Name: Nate Penn on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Why not try marketing the EI package before giving up on it Last year I personally signed up two friends who weren't even aware the service existed.

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16. 166
    Name: M Piskorski on Feb 9, 2007

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17. 167
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

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18. 168
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I have had the EI package thru my cable provider for 2 years now and always llok foward to purchasing it. Direct TV is not an option for me so please reconsider.

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19. 169
    Name: Stephen A. Smith on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: This deal is completely unfair to a fan who lives out of state for his favorite team. A team I have followed, lived and died with, for nearly 37 years. I have purchased Extra Innings from my cable provider for years, but connecting a satellite dish, losing my local channels, paying more for TV all year long, just so others can get wealthy is not happening. So, my young children will not get hooked on MLB, and I will stop traveling hundreds of miles to go see the team I watch every night because I will not be as invested in the team as I have in the years that I had access to watching them every night. THIS IS AN UNFAIR and FOOLISH deal that MLB will regret years down the road when fans stop tuning in.

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20. 170
    Name: David Molloy on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: This stinks

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21. 171
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I am an out of market fan. I can't have a dish. Please stop this insanity.

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22. 172
    Name: David Dinsmore on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Hey baseball, you are not football! Sunday ticket locks me out of a few football games a weekend, this package will lock me out of 100's of games a week. In the last five years my wife and I have made trips to Seattle, Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee, Phoenix and Kansas City. I doubt any of those trips would have happened if my wife didn't get hooked on baseball thanks to the EI package on Dish.

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23. 173
    Name: Kristen Pagliaro on Feb 9, 2007

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24. 174
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Ridiculous

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25. 175
    Name: Chris Bernard on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: This is an arrangement which benefits MLB and Direct TV, but not the fans. MLB ought to be ashamed of itself.

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26. 176
    Name: Craig Camelio on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Not only is this a bad deal for baseball's most avid fans (Almost a quarter million of whom bought the package from a non-DTV source), but it's bad news for the sponsors of MLB and the teams. They pay money for access to the most avid fans - who are now being cut off. I hope the other sponsors lean on MLB and the teams to get some money refunded for willingly reducing their fanbase.

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27. 177
    Name: Ian Martin on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I live in new york, and before that san francisco. I was always eble to catch the red sox on extra innings via cable, somethign I don't mind paying for. I will be very saddened that I will be forced to watch the sox play in various sports bars, not what I desire, the comfort of myu own home is whjat I want. I will not buy direct tv just to watch MLB, its not happening. Please allow both Direct TV and Cable to carry Extra Innings.

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28. 178
    Name: Raphael Zinman on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: While I understand that exclusivity is a commodity to be valued. For those of us who don't even have the choice of switching providers, who live in apartment buildings and are simply not able to get satelite, this amounts to a slap in the face by MLB.

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29. 179
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

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30. 180
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

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31. 181
    Name: Matthew Bennett on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: DirecTV does not work for NFL fans and it will not work for baseball fans. Baseball has long forgotten the fan and this is just another example.

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32. 182
    Name: Peter Mandell on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: In 2004, MLB heeded fan complaints in the wake another get-rich scheme, putting the Spider-Man logo on the bases for a day, and pulled the promotion. Please consider our side again this year with regards to this stunningly un-fan-friendly deal. I know only 230,000 households subscribed through to Extra Innings through cable last year, and money rules everything, but I'd still love to hear how saying goodbye to any number of fans is a good business model (and do NOT tell me about watching games over the internet).

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33. 183
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I live in an apt that does not have a southern view so your telling me I'm out of luck. That is simply not fair and leaves a very bitter taste towards mlb.

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34. 184
    Name: Jim Pericotti on Feb 9, 2007

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35. 185
    Name: Dan Gullotti on Feb 9, 2007

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36. 186
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: in demand extra innings have made my summers the last 2 years . I am able to enjoy the nyy and red sox games every night . Please n do not hurt baseball's most loyal fans by taking away this wonderful service .

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37. 187
    Name: Alan Trager on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: This is a travesty. Pitiful - as if the league needs to do this to keep their revenues flowing. Off with the antitrust exemption!

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38. 188
    Name: Josiah Cushing on Feb 9, 2007

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39. 189
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Terrible. Awful decision. Not fan friendly at all. Could be even worse than the NFL's agreement.

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40. 190
    Name: Michael Mitchell on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Bud Selig's a foolish man who is about to make his legacy as commisioner one of the worst this sport has seen. Is it really worth the money to provide the greatest game on earth to such a small market

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41. 191
    Name: Marco Ciccone on Feb 9, 2007

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42. 192
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I live in a condo and cannot subscribe to Direct TV...i've been a customer of Extra innings for the last five years thru Comcast as a huge RED SOX fans...Don't let greed rule the day! Please.

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43. 193
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I cannot get a dish in my condo (facing the wrong way). I bought the MLB pacakage last year and planned to this year until I heard this horrible news. Is MLB trying to make me into a soccer fan

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44. 194
    Name: Bill on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I've had extra innings for the last 4 years as a cox communications subscriber. This is absurd. if Directv thinks by wanting exclusive rights to MLB Extra Innings they're going to acquire many of digital cable subscribers they're sadly mistaken. MY advice to MLB and Directv is continue to enjoy half of the pie and not be a predictable glutton and try to eat the whole pie by yourself.

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45. 195
    Name: Anonymous on Feb 9, 2007

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46. 196
    Name: Ken Anderson on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: Please don't force baseball fans everywhere to move to DirectTV. This would be a horrible move

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47. 197
    Name: Courtney Dow on Feb 9, 2007

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48. 198
    Name: Justin Nardin on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: It's just not fair.

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49. 199
    Name: Sean Sanderson on Feb 9, 2007

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50. 200
    Name: Andrew Beaton on Feb 9, 2007

    Comments: I think this decision is absurd and a slap in the face of many fans. What this will accomplish, other than putting more bucks in the pockets of the owners, is really beyond me. More visibility for baseball, not less!

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