I’m not hopelessly naive. I know that money talks. Why wouldn’t MLB.com want to make some extra revenue by putting adverts into MLB.TV?<\/p>\n
But there are limits to what’s acceptable when you are already paying good money for the privilege of watching the service.<\/p>\n
Firstly I logged on to the Royals-A’s game mid-inning, only to see my viewing delayed by thirty seconds thanks to an advert (“hurry up, hurry up!” was my main concern at the time). Then, I had to sit through the same advert when the general broadcast went to a commercial break (“this is a really annoying advert – especially that Yankees fan”) . If that wasn’t bad enough, when I switched from the 400K feed to the 700K feed, I had to watch the bloody thing again! And it looks like we will have to sit through the same clip every half-inning throughout the game.<\/p>\n
The advert is for Dick’s Sporting Goods and in fairness to them I’m sure they will be delighted with the situation. As a business, you want to gain publicity and to have your name stick in people’s memory. “Dicks” is certainly a word that will come to mind every time I have to watch this clip, that’s for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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