{"id":24402,"date":"2005-03-14T06:05:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T11:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=24402"},"modified":"2005-03-14T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-14T11:05:40","slug":"tv-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2005\/03\/tv-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Wars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"smhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A31721-2005Mar13.html\"><b>Orioles Say Nationals Are Welcome to Share TV Pact<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>AP\/The Post<\/i><br \/>Things are really heating up over a television package for the Nationals. <b>Peter Angelo$<\/b> took out a full page ad in the Sunday <i>Post<\/i> (I have not seen it yet, has anyone put it online?) to clear up some &#8220;misinformation&#8221; about what is going on. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcrtv.net\/\"><b>DCRTV<\/b><\/a> had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three weeks to go until opening day, and still no local TV deal for Washington&#8217;s baseball Nationals. The Baltimore Orioles took out a full-page ad in Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post to counter the &#8220;great deal of misinformation&#8221; that the team&#8217;s owner, Peter Angelos, is trying to torpedo a local TV deal for the Nationals. &#8220;We have repeatedly advised Major League Baseball that we would welcome the Nationals to our regional sports network (Orioles Television) and are prepared to televise Nationals&#8217; games throughout our television territory.&#8221; The ad added that the Orioles are &#8220;prepared to offer a fair and appropriate fee to the Nationals in the many millions of dollars annually for the telecast of their games.&#8221; Orioles TV is carried by area broadcast TV stations&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it sounds to me like Angelo$ is saying that it is MLB\/Nats fault for no deal, because they have not excepted his terms, which is not far off from &#8220;why do you make me hit you?!&#8221; logic. How reassuring to know that Big Daddy Baltimore Boss Man knows what is good for us!  I have seen what Angelo$ has done in Baltimore, I do not want to see him to it in Washington too. <i>The Wash. Examiner&#8217;s<\/i> <b>Jim Williams&#8217;<\/b> has more in today&#8217;s <i>Wash. Examiner<\/i>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcexaminer.com\/articles\/2005\/03\/14\/\/sports\/d_c_sports\/\/002_media.txt\"><b>On media &#8211; Will we get our Nats TV?<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><i>The Sun<\/i> also chimes in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/sports\/baseball\/bal-sp.angelos14mar14,1,5480004.story?coll=bal-sports-baseball\"><b>Angelos takes out ad to get point across<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Finally, on the field,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcexaminer.com\/articles\/2005\/03\/14\/\/sports\/d_c_sports\/\/002_nats.txt\"><b>Nats beat Baltimore<\/b><\/a> (<i>AP\/The Wash. Examiner<\/i>) again in spring training, 11 &#8211; 4.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"smhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050313\/SPORTS\/503130332\/1002\/sports\"><b>Always a friendly rivalry<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>Florida Today<\/i><br \/>I don&#8217;t know if this reporter in Florida reads the wire or other Web sites, but right now the Nats and Baltimore are hardly friendly rivals with all of the obstruction to a TV deal coming out of the warehouse. This got picked up by wire services too. Closer to home, in the <i>Falls Church News-Press<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcnp.com\/501\/sports3.htm\"><b>another writer makes a similar point<\/b><\/a>. So what if the players don&#8217;t feel it &#8212; they do not even live here yet!<\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"smhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/sports\/20050314-121611-6613r.htm\"><b>Vidro hurts elbow, sits out exhibition<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Wash. Times<\/i><br \/><b>Jose Vidro<\/b> is day to day with a hyperextended elbow?<\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"smhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A32131-2005Mar13.html\"><b>Do the Nationals Really Know the Man in Charge?<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a reporter asks him who is the best player he ever managed &#8212; perhaps Vladimir Guerrero, or Joe Morgan or Cal Ripken? &#8212; Robinson shakes his head and sticks his thumb into his own chest, as if to say: &#8220;Me.&#8221; Indeed, you can look it up: He was player-manager in Cleveland in 1975 and &#8217;76.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is pretty funny and to date &#8212; true, <b>Frank Robinson is the best player Frank Robinson ever managed<\/b>.  Someday, <b>Vladimir Guerrero<\/b> may surpass him, but until he does, Robby is right. I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/vision\/space\/features\/remembering_gordo.html\"><b>Gordo Cooper<\/b><\/a> bravado.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"150\" size=\"1\" align=\"center\" noshade><a class=\"smhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A30291-2005Mar12.html\"><b>An Early Show of Support<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/>The Nats sold <b>50,000 tickets<\/b> in the first six hours of single-game ticket sales. On Sunday, my fiancee contributed by giving me a pair to the exhibition game vs. the Mets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orioles Say Nationals Are Welcome to Share TV Pact &#8211; AP\/The PostThings are really heating up over a television package for the Nationals. 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