XM hosts encourage Yankee hatred after 2009 World Series, taking your calls
Somehow the 'discourse' materialized. Magically it appeared 24/7 across mass media platforms...I heard XM MLB hosts selling it like hotcakes for days after the series, such as "people across the country hate the Yankees more and more, how does it make you feel, give us a call" and the like.
- Part of Bud Selig's arsenal to build hatred and resentment against Yankee players while deflecting attention from himself and MLB owners. Yankee management apparently fine with it.
- Torii Hunter mentioned the Yankees' massive offseason spending spree in
- seemingly every third interview..."
- Or the fact that baseball is a legal monopoly with no oversight of its books?
- Thanks for the call, good point. Now a word from our sponsor.
- the game's central office needs to place more
- scrutiny on how its franchises are actually run."...
- (Howard Bryant): "Here's what former MLB player Curt Flood, addressing how profit rather than the quality of the game is all that concerns ownership, wrote in "The Way It Is" in 1971:
Their protestations notwithstanding, the owners measure the Good of the Game in terms of the profits that remain after expenses are subtracted from receipts.
- Everything else is subordinated, including the quality of what takes place on the playing field.
- The proprietors of baseball have never hesitated to adulterate the game to make an extra dollar.
- Exhibit A is the profitably extended season of 162 games, plus pre-season exhibitions, plus in-season exhibitions, plus intraleague championship playoffs,
- plus a World Series that has become a travesty because
- the men are utterly exhausted before it starts.""...
- MLB could not have kept this scam up all these years without the help of its partners in the media. Selig can confer immortality on media types and perhaps a future job, so why make waves? And who needs the nasty phone calls anyway.
- Torii Hunter is making $90 million over 5 years and received a $2.5 million signing bonus.
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