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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. Re:Foot, gun, aim - shoot ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    What is wrong with posting information, plain information.. pure and simple???

    What's wrong with it? Well, first of all the corporations own that information.

  2. Major League Baseball Pushing mlb.com by OaITw · · Score: 3, Informative

    Major League Baseball is aiming for mlb.com to be a supper site that meets all baseball fan needs. I would guess that the director of the mlb.com asked the legal division to rain in the none mlb.com sites a little bit with the aim of increasing their own sites hits and revenue.

    This is a pretty good strategy for baseball actually. First is provides uniformity to there product. If all fans start there baseball related news gathering by going to mlb.com you get a central influence on news and hype. Second it produces general revenue. This is exactly what baseball needs right now. Of course no general revenue source can overcome the local revenue associated with ticket sales; but baseball needs to look for as much shared revenue as possible in order to reestablish parity. A fan site devoted to the Yankees is taking eyeballs from advertising that benifits all teams.

    I have been converted. I think mlb.com is the best professional sports web portal. I used to go the WGN to listen to Cubs baseball on the web but mlb.com centralized web broadcasting of baseball games. I still can hear the Cubs with WGN broadcasters but I have the pay the $10 a season on mlb.com. For this $10 you get the ability to listen to every other team also. And I am guessing the revenue is shared.

    Since I like the Cubs it is bad in a way that my dollars are shared but for all the fans of Yankees and Mets doing the same thing, it is good for me and the Cubs that some of their dollars are shared.

  3. Re:Not flamebait by gowen · · Score: 2, Informative
    And they still can't hit like Ruth.
    Hmmm. Barry Bonds 2001 -- More home runs, more walks, better SLG%, better OBP%. Not necessarily better than Ruth, but certainly Ruthian.
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    Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
  4. Re:dirtbag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    In spanish they actually call it futbol, which is as close as they can actually come to saying football with their spanish accents.
    In Chinese, they say zuqiu, zu meaning foot and qiu meaning sport.