"Unfuckingbelievable"

Or so said Goober, ever foulmouthed and probably up past his bedtime, when he called Batgirl with the news that the Twins had made an 8-year deal with Fox Sports. The good news is Batgirl's beloved readership can now watch the games again--and so, for that matter, can Batgirl. The bad news is the Twins probably lost a whole bunch of moola on this whole thing, making the whole Pyrrhic Victory debacle the worst Twins move since Tom Brunansky for Tommy Herr.

Questions abound: what happened? Who caved and why? Certainly, the debacle wasn't helping the stadium bill. In a way, it's hard to feel too good about the Twins caving to the strong-arm tactics of the big cable companies, but, really, there's nothing baseball likes more than supporting the right of big businesses to skirt around antitrust laws. Is the only thing worse than the Twins decision to start Victory Sports the decision to scrap Victory Sports? Do I really care that much since we get to watch the games now? Do we get Clay Matvick back?

Posted by Batgirl at May 7, 2004 10:02 PM
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