WGN No More?

[MrSheps]

A. I never said people complaining about blackouts are meatheads.  There's nothing meatheaded about that.  I'd be furious if I couldn't even pay to see the games (and 99%+ of fans aren't tech savvy enough to get around blackouts).

 

B. I also never said people were meatheads just for not being happy that games are no longer going to be free because they're not on WGN America (even though no other team has had non-nationally televised games on free TV for years).  The point is that meatheads are going to blame the Cubs for out-of-market games no longer being free.  That's meatheaded because it's not the Cubs that made the decision.  It's just the same meatheads that blame the Cubs for everything.

 

C. On a completely unrelated note, nice try to suggest that the Cubs' record the last few years had something to do with WGN's decision.  The Cubs must really have sucked to keep WGN America from showing Bulls and White Sox games.

 

I mentioned the Bulls and said twice it's not the Cubs fault, just that they didn't make it a harder decision by being poorly rated for so long.  It's not unreasonable to think that if they were raking in money WGN America might have looked at things differently, money talks in broadcasting. But to your point, TBS went a different way some time back when the Braves were likely doing good numbers, so again, I don't and didn't blame the Cubs, it's the market changing.  Now, the Cubs ratings are though reflected in their new, reportedly less favorable local WGN deal though, but I digress.