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    Opening Day 2012 = Fail

    Opening Day 2012 is a Fail

    It was barely publicized , It wasnt on MLB network or ESPN so nobody could watch it or even Fox

    Why cant MLB do similar to what the NFL does.

    Everyone looks forward to Opening Day and Spring, so why not promote the idea

    Have the major league season open in great pagentry with the World Series Winner play a rival and maybe some Old Timers from that team appear at the game and some pop singers sing the Star Spangled Banner and Take me Out to the Ball game.

    It could be a great event
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    Originally posted by zahavasdad View Post
    Opening Day 2012 is a Fail

    It was barely publicized , It wasnt on MLB network or ESPN so nobody could watch it or even Fox

    Why cant MLB do similar to what the NFL does.

    Everyone looks forward to Opening Day and Spring, so why not promote the idea

    Have the major league season open in great pagentry with the World Series Winner play a rival and maybe some Old Timers from that team appear at the game and some pop singers sing the Star Spangled Banner and Take me Out to the Ball game.

    It could be a great event
    That makes way too much sense, so I don't think Selig would go that route.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Yankeefan3783 View Post
      That makes way too much sense, so I don't think Selig would go that route.
      Damn I wish I had all the power people seem to think Selig has.
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      • #4
        Exactly why was it not on ESPN, Fox or MLB network?

        MLB network showed a RERUN of a Yankee Pre-season game.

        I heard it wasnt even on in OAKLAND, It was only on in Seattle

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Yankeefan3783 View Post
          That makes way too much sense, so I don't think Selig would go that route.
          I don't think Selig has anything to do with either making the schedule or how teams promote games.

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          • #6
            I belive Roger Godell has the right to put any game on National TV if he wishes

            When Mark McGwire was about to hit his 62nd Home run, Fox put the game on national TV on like a Tuesday or Wendnesday

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            • #7
              Why wasn't the game accessible to MLB.TV subscribers?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Joltin' Joe View Post
                Why wasn't the game accessible to MLB.TV subscribers?
                This ^^^^^
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                • #9
                  Baseball is becoming a Mel Brooks parody of itself.
                  "No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Captain Cold Nose View Post
                    Damn I wish I had all the power people seem to think Selig has.
                    If he can strong arm a team into moving leagues don't you think he can get commercial time for opening day? Why even play the Japan series if you don't promote it?
                    "No matter how great you were once upon a time — the years go by, and men forget,” - W. A. Phelon in Baseball Magazine in 1915. “Ross Barnes, forty years ago, was as great as Cobb or Wagner ever dared to be. Had scores been kept then as now, he would have seemed incomparably marvelous.”

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by bluesky5 View Post
                      If he can strong arm a team into moving leagues don't you think he can get commercial time for opening day? Why even play the Japan series if you don't promote it?
                      It may an ESPN thing. They are heavilly promoting their Opening Day Games.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by EdTarbusz View Post
                        I don't think Selig has anything to do with either making the schedule or how teams promote games.
                        I was under the assumption that Selig and MLB decided to open the season in Japan and picked which clubs will participate. If Oakland and Seattle opted to do this on their own with MLB permission, then that's fine I guess (still rather it be exhibition games vs real games though).

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Yankeefan3783 View Post
                          I was under the assumption that Selig and MLB decided to open the season in Japan and picked which clubs will participate. If Oakland and Seattle opted to do this on their own with MLB permission, then that's fine I guess (still rather it be exhibition games vs real games though).
                          I think if they are going to play there it should be an exhibition as well. I wouldn't seeing the Indians play a regular season out of the country. I think regular season games should be played in the home team's ballpark.

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                          • #14
                            The traditional MLB opener used to be contested in Cincinatti every opening day being that they are baseball's oldest franchise. I rather liked that. I do agree with Zahavasdad though, would be nice to see the World Series winner open the season each year for MLB in defense of their crown, regardless of who they play . . .they would still be opening up the season in defense of their title. . . and some "hoopla" . . . and yes . . . "balloons" ha!
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Joltin' Joe View Post
                              Why wasn't the game accessible to MLB.TV subscribers?
                              It is. I'm watching it right now.
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