Yes. So why offer something for free for the dedicated fan who’s going to pay for a bigger subscription anyway?

In my case, penury prevents it and meanwhile, the risk is of jeopardizing long-term devotion to the game.

So really what you’re asking is why doesn’t YES or MLB provide something free or cheap for you! ; ) Seriously, there’s a chance that your longterm interest in the game will decline because you can’t see longer highlights—highlights that have never been available to fans in the past? I imagine MLB has made this calculation and figures the odds are on their side.

[13] [14] [15] Now that is a more interesting suggestion.

“Here is an at-bat that typifies *how* Rod Carew managed to hit .388, you’ll notice in this clip, his extraordinary plate coverage…”

or whatever.

They could even offer some middle ground package, something dirt cheap that would include longer excerpts or something.

I don’t know, it just feels like that approach runs counter to what should be their longer term goal of cultivating devoted, life-long fans.

In my case, penury prevents it and meanwhile, the risk is of jeopardizing long-term devotion to the game.

For example, I stopped watching baseball for a few years as a kid. This was for a number of reasons (my increasing interest in music chief among them) but in retrospect, one major reason was that the games stopped being broadcast on channel 11 and we did not have Sportschannel so in the absence of being able to just turn on the game out of force of habit, I actually fell away from it entirely for a number of years.

This is something that has infuriated me my whole life, whenever they show highlight footage. They never show enough that a person can actually study a player, have any sense of what made them great. We only see them hit the ball over the fence and trot around the bases, or we see a pitcher blow the ball past a batter.

In this day and age, why can’t YES and all the other outlets show more extended highlight footage? I’m really asking, is there an explanation for this, does anyone know?

And sure, the Celtics are lousy but that doesn’t damper the excitement for this Knicks fan. Hey, if they can reach the conference finals against the Heat that’ll be sweet.

And the Knicks are older than the Celtics. They’re just better, is all.

As for the basketball game, let’s not forget that Boston, despite resting Garnett, looks old. No Rondo, either. Even Heinsohn (I get the NESN feed) had to say the Knicks looked real good. Check out the flagrant foul! What was that about?

I am kind of excited to see Romine, though. He’s been pretty solid with the RailRiders thus far.

Out of all the basic fundamental shit they taught us all in little league and high school, is there a single one they teach a single major leaguer anymore?