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So much to say about things in Baltimore and beyond. So unable to articulate much of it. No matter what you hear from the Right, there IS an element of SOMETHING-ism that makes this status quo of police protection to be totally unacceptable, even when it's black-on-black as alleged here, and even when it's white-on-white; this sad story from near my home town shows that it can even happen to the white son of a Nassau County cop.
So maybe it trivializes things to focus on the effect it all had on a stupid ballgame, but it was unprecedented in major league baseball, so it's at least relatable as Something Big and Bad: Baltimore hosted an official championship contest today, and the box score will forever reveal something as strange as it was sad:
That last line looks weird; the picture of it, even more so:
I watched a little of it in between work things today; MLB made it their free online game of the day. With one bizarre exception:
It was blacked out online in all of Maryland and Virginia. Yup; to protect the home team's attendance, baseball does not allow live streaming of games to even paying customers in a Byzantine tile-map of restricted areas. EVEN IF THE FUCKING BALLPARK IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
(Merlinders and Virgins only miss out on Orioles and Nationals games; we are Internet-blacked out of both New York teams- they're on our cable, so no prob- but also Cleveland and Pittsburgh games. Yet Toronto, the closest venue to us, is not subject to blackout because, Canada.)
Only one thing is reasonably certain: this great nation will finally solve its long-standing problems with race and criminal justice before our sports leagues fix their copyright and blackout rules. I'm not staying up late expecting either anytime soon.
So maybe it trivializes things to focus on the effect it all had on a stupid ballgame, but it was unprecedented in major league baseball, so it's at least relatable as Something Big and Bad: Baltimore hosted an official championship contest today, and the box score will forever reveal something as strange as it was sad:
That last line looks weird; the picture of it, even more so:
I watched a little of it in between work things today; MLB made it their free online game of the day. With one bizarre exception:
It was blacked out online in all of Maryland and Virginia. Yup; to protect the home team's attendance, baseball does not allow live streaming of games to even paying customers in a Byzantine tile-map of restricted areas. EVEN IF THE FUCKING BALLPARK IS NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
(Merlinders and Virgins only miss out on Orioles and Nationals games; we are Internet-blacked out of both New York teams- they're on our cable, so no prob- but also Cleveland and Pittsburgh games. Yet Toronto, the closest venue to us, is not subject to blackout because, Canada.)
Only one thing is reasonably certain: this great nation will finally solve its long-standing problems with race and criminal justice before our sports leagues fix their copyright and blackout rules. I'm not staying up late expecting either anytime soon.