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Baseball Cracks Down on Fan Sites

Posted by timothy on from the oddball-thought-patterns dept.

serutan writes: "Looks like Major League Baseball has joined other players in the big-media content industry to crack down on fans who overstep their proper place as consumers. Anybody with a website dedicated to America's favorite pastime better read this story on Yahoo."

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  1. MLB = Money, Lawyers, Bitching by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    These people make me want to shove a bat where the sun doesn't shine.

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    In Soviet America the banks rob you!
    1. Re:MLB = Money, Lawyers, Bitching by AngstMerchant · · Score: 2, Funny

      Settle down!! It's not healthy to take your aggressions out on yourself. . .

  2. Shock! by LooneyScotsman · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm shocked that the industry would do something like this! Oh, wait, no i'm not... Its probably all done on the advice of lawyers trying to justify their own existence (and jobs) by making trouble. Dont you just hate people like that?

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    "Ask a stupid person, get a stupid answer"
  3. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Who cares about a game that's only being played on a serious level in America?

    Now if this were about football (and I'm not talking about the kind of "foot"ball where you carry the ball) then I'd get upset.

    1. Re:Who cares? by FyRE666 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm, baseball? Baseball.... Ah yes, now I remember, it's that game where you hit a ball with a stick and run around in a circle. We have that over in the UK too - it's only played by girls though, and called "rounders".

      So they actually pay people to do that over in the US? ;-)

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      Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
  4. Mixing American Pastimes by Inominate · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're just mixing the great american pastimes of baseball and lawsuits.

  5. Obligatory Simpsons Quote by Tomun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bart: You're probably wondering about the coat hangers. They're to
    block the satellite that's been spying on me.
    Marge: [with trepidation] Okay ...
    Bart: It can read your electric organizer from space.
    Homer: Even mine? [Bart takes it and smashes it] Hey, I had
    Lenny's name on that!
    Bart: They have it now.
    Lisa: Who are they, exactly?
    Bart: Who else? Major League Baseball.

    http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF22