> On Nov 6, 2016, at 7:00 AM, Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2. It's been 13 years since I went to the Cubs NLDS and NLCS games, so I > can't remember, but in the World Series, the clubs give over control of > pretty much everything to MLB. For example, State Farm usually advertises on > the back of the dugout walls at Wrigley, but during the playoffs, it was > replaced with (I think) MLB At Bat. Even the in-stadium between-inning spots > are all MLB sponsors instead of Cubs sponsors.
This was the case for the Division Series and Championship Series games in all ballparks as well, including any static ads behind home plate or in/on the dugouts. (The regular outfield wall and scoreboard ads stayed.) There's a strip behind home plate at Progressive Field that normally reads "Progressive Field Progressive.com Progressive Field Progressive.com" -- it was altered by covering up every ".com" with "Field." > 3. The commercial break timer was set to an an almost "why bother?" 2:55, and > yet Fox still wants to jam all these spots in there. Quite a contrast from the Rays games I watched on a Fox regional network all during the regular season, where this was never an issue, even with a shorter between-innings clock. Incidentally, this year I went to a couple of International League minor-league games, in which a pitch clock is being used, and I would be very happy to see that implemented in MLB. -- Jim Ellwanger <train...@ellwanger.tv> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
