Thank goodness I have WGN on cable.

May 4, 2001

For this season the MLB is not allowing any radio stations to broadcast baseball games online. They have to do it through MLB.com, which I will not link, who forces you to pay to listen. This follows in the new theme of charging people to do just about anything on the internet. Now when a place like Outpost.com I don't mind so much that they started charging for shipping because it was generous to offer free overnight shipping. But when I listen to the baseball game online, still through WGN on mlb.com, I am listening to advertisements throughout the game and WGN is still paying the MLB to be able to broadcast the game. So why do I need to pay the MLB again? I think this is absurd.

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