{"id":5118,"date":"2010-05-18T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:07:23","slug":"if-masn-fires-rob-dibble-id-go-to-an-orioles-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/05\/if-masn-fires-rob-dibble-id-go-to-an-orioles-game\/","title":{"rendered":"If MASN fires Rob Dibble, I&#8217;ll go to an Orioles game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rob Dibble<\/strong> is easily the worst baseball analyst I have ever experienced. His talking over play-by-play announcer Bob Carpenter, grunting during big moments and meathead homerism (for a team that he never played for in a city he has no natural connection to) is so terrible that I watch games on mute most of the time. I don&#8217;t think it is irresponsible to speculate that Orioles-owned MASN hired him specifically because he&#8217;s terrible in an effort to slight the Washington Nationals and their fans. However, I&#8217;m willing to give MASN a chance, this one time, to make it right.<\/p>\n<p>This may seems surprising because I&#8217;m perhaps the most outspoken Nats blogger about the general awfulness of Peter Angelos and the Orioles owning the Nats TV rights. It is and will always be a corrupt bargain rooted in the Angelos cowardice and lack of faith in Baltimore fans &#8212; he got the Nats rights by claiming that they were moving into his market. Odd that I couldn&#8217;t get Baltimore TV or a <em>Sun<\/em> at the local newspaper boxes in <em>his<\/em> market. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, where was I &#8212; oh yes, I was about to say that I would end my boycott of Camden Yards (dating back to before the Nats arrived) for one game if MASN fires Dibble within the next month. That would be such a show of good faith that I could reward Angelos with a ticket purchase for a Nats or Yankees visit. Desperate times call for desperate measures.<\/p>\n<p>MASN, you are on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>FIRE DIBBLE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Dibble is easily the worst baseball analyst I have ever experienced. 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