Silent, compliant baseball media enable Bud Selig

The last game at Yankee Stadium was unavailable to those who can't afford cable TV and to many children. Bud Selig is one reason it happened, but he had his usual enablers:

• the 'silent, compliant' baseball media (many of whom get checks from ESPN or hope to):

(NY Post, Mushnick): "THAT the New York sports and news media would quietly allow the last game in Yankee Stadium to be a late start on a Sunday night, that Bud Selig was not shamed for trading common decency and common sense for TV money, is pathetic.

• And that's the kind of compliant silence media capitulation -

• that emboldens MLB for its next TV money-first act. Of course,

• the silence of those who get a second paycheck from ESPN or ESPN Radio
• was guaranteed.

No New Yorker, over the age of 8, should have been deprived of watching the last game played and the last out made at Yankee Stadium.

• The House That Ruth Built is now the House That Greed Closed."

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