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Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie
I've got UCLA and Texas at Minute Made live on my local sports provider. This is good stuff. Give these guys some wood bats, add more games, and a tv package. We're ready to roll. Baylor and LSU are up next tonight. That one might be on mlb.tv Kind of ironic.
The monopoly is totally bogus. Owners should not have a monopoly, but it's not like a start-up league would want to pay fair to middling shortstops $400 million either.
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Not so sure, if they can get a cable/TV contract, who knows. Look at football and basketball, there have been alternate leagues started over the years. Hockey not really, but it has always been more of an international sport than baseball, football, and basketball, which all started out as pretty much American only sports, at least in their beginnings. But no one has really tried forming a new league against MLB since the Federal League back in 1914-15. And that was before the anti-trust exemption was confirmed and in place. It seems that the exemption MLB has has played some role over the years in keeping competitors from trying to form rival leagues, just not sure exactly how . Maybe the knowledge MLB has no anti-trust restrictions is more than enough to keep potential rival leagues from even trying to form and compete.
And as for ball games on TV or cable, watch them start broadcasting live South Korean games again.