http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sat, 25 May 2013 16:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6285 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:57:10 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6285 The bigger story is that ESPN dumped all MLB playoff coverage so that they could be the all-football network.
Those SEC and NFL Monday-night rights aren’t cheap – gotta spend the rest of the week promoting…

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6284 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:15:16 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6284 It’s probably because the Twins were in the playoffs.
Call them a small market if you want to, but they drew the 5th most TV viewers this year and have a pretty rabid fanbase.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6283 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:56:05 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6283 You may have hit the nail on the head. THe next round is radio broadcast for sound and TV for picture.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6282 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:54:56 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6282 I noticed that all the sound was lower then normal and that was in the New York Market.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6281 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:26:11 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6281 Did any markets outside of Chicago happen to notice that the sound levels for the announcers at TBS during Games was so low as to be unintelligible unless truened up so loud, crowd noise in bkgrd was deafening?

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6280 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:53:21 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6280 Well said and I agree 100%!

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6279 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:48:24 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6279 I loved the Rock and Roll Express! Unlike the sad sorry state of wrestling we have today…

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6278 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:32:06 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6278 Don’t we mean six original play-off teams this year ‘that were broadcast on TBS’? The clarity would help some people start questioning the physics behind the change of eight play-off teams into six teams.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6277 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:37:52 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6277 Um, I think you mean 4 of 6 playoff teams come from top-5 markets. The Twins and Rockies come from the 15 and 18th ranked markets.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/10/15/forget-the-yankees-dodgers-phils-and-angels-tbs-is-the-real-winner-of-the-division-series/comment-page-1/#comment-6276 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:34:35 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=1707#comment-6276 I prefer to believe it’s because there was no Joe Buck, McCarver, Miller, Morgan, intrusive exploding graphic, endless plugola, mind-numbing blather to contend with.

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