Looks like I will be watching a lot of Sox games this year.
No agreement with Comcast or WOW cable.

Thank you ,Ricketts family!

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He's alive! How you doin'?

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Jimmy !!!! Welcome back. I'll leave a link for you when the games are on.

Hop on board. Plenty of room for you and your defibrillator in the subdivision.

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DING...DING...DING....Good guess! I don't want to bore anybody with my crap but I will start checking in more.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Awesome!

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

It really is going to be a major fuckup by the Ricketts if Regular Season games aren't on TV.

They’re 5 years too late.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

It’s almost as if they might have avoided another teams mistakes like the Dodgers.

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Elections have consequences.

The Dodgers didn't make a mistake. They cashed in big time on their deal.

Yeah I guess I meant fans screwed not being able to watch.

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Elections have consequences.

Penny wise, pound foolish

Mark Cuban rips MLB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqoPIit4fkw

Marquee signs deal with Hulu.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business ... story.html

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

i hope youtubetv (when they inevitably sign on) puts it as an extra tier that you have to pay more $$ to get so i as someone who has little to no interest in the network am not subjected to this crap in the regular lineup

You could just not watch it if it's in the regular lineup.

i dont want the carriage fee associated with this dumb channel being part of base package monthly fee. if cub fans want to support their team they can pay more each month to get the channel as an add on.

Gotcha.

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This has been my argument against Comcast making it part of their standard package.

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Yes, because paying for channels you never watch has never been a part of the cable experience.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

My gripe with this grift is admittedly just a matter of "fuck the Cubs". I'll completely own that one.

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Sports networks rarely qualify for this. They are a completely different situation from "paying" for networks HGTV and Animal Planet.

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Sports networks rarely qualify for this. They are a completely different situation from "paying" for networks HGTV and Animal Planet.

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Nah nah nah. Stand your ground sj. You're 100% right on this.

Marquee is a 100% dogshit channel. What other channel has the nerve to demand an absurd $6 per subscriber for 3 hours of programming for at most 150ish days a year???

I hope Comcast stays strong in telling Marquee to fuck off

ESPN is one of the most expensive channels and is on every basic cable package and above. It was $7.86 as of 2017, and probably higher now.

Hard for posters on a sports board to fathom, but there are a huge number of homes that never tune into ESPN.

A major market like Chicago should not gripe about having two RSN's.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

ESPN is a sports centric network. They cover and televise everything from NFL to Spelling Bee's.

A team centric network has no business on a basic cable package. If there are that many homes and bars that want Marquee, they can pay for it themselves.

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Fuck Marquee and fuck the Ricketts, they can go all go back to Nebraska.