[Jagshund]

Just finished watching "Prince of Persia" flick with my wife and decided to see what's on television. Once I caught sight of the Series I immediately switched over to some other station- can't even tell you what we're watching right now, might be one of the Resident Evils. It won't be the WS even if I'm left with that or watching QVC.

Wife wanted to know why I dislike the sport so much so, in an attempt to explain to her the moments that have been ruined by governing authorities (and the prevalent strictly-business mentality of franchise owners) I tried to find an unedited clip of Gibson's entire at bat. No dice. I know it was there two years ago and all over the web. Now MLB has tracked them all down (there may be one left somewhere) and provided us with a sanitized, 3:50 version on their website lead-in by advertisers. Really doesn't do it like the original broadcast. They've done the same with other great moments but, hey! Now I know what brand of dressing to buy!

Added to the growing focus on content protection (which, unless used for profit, really only serves to emotionally connect fans to the sport) is the issue of broadcast scheduling: baseball is a three hour + game they're trying to serve up while we're all at home . . . late. MLB doesn't care about the fans, only the demographics of their advertisers. I'm hoping they add full-time instant replay so they lose their entire viewing audience and shut the league down for good.