'Any rebroadcast, retransmission...'
Connecticut Sun has a bidder?
Good morning, all. It’s hump day!
Remember when it was customary during sports broadcasts, especially a baseball broadcast on radio or television, for the announcer to read the following?
Any rebroadcast, retransmission or other use of the descriptions and accounts of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball and the (pick your team) is PROHIBITED’
I do not know if they even read that announcement anymore. Perhaps they do, but does it matter? The legal stewards of the game might as well throw that warning out the window. With social media, everyone is “rebroadcasting “ and “retransmitting.” More amazingly, they are getting the information out faster than the entities who have ponied up millions to televise and broadcast a team’s games.
Take the New York Yankees, for example. On social media, on more than one channel, a teenager or young adult, sits in his room, surrounded by graphics, providing his own real live commentary of the game with a chat room.
There is a You Tube channel, which bills itself as Bx Bomber 2011, that actually provides a live video feed of the game via smartphone. I kid you not. The channel’s operator sits in the upper deck in right field at Yankee Stadium, offering viewers a live feed of the game. More amazingly, his feed is three minutes ahead of the televised action. Monday night, in the ninth inning of the Yankees loss to Tampa Bay, I watched Austin Wells line out to right center to end the game on this guy’s channel, while Ryan McMahon was still batting on the television feed.
I don’t know what’s more amazing, that the television feed is three minutes behind the actual action or that a lot of this prohibited action is not being prohibited. The Yankees television revenue comes from subscribers and advertisers. As a subscriber, I can tell you I am not happy, now that I have learned, when you watch the YES Network, the game is over, before it’s over.
If you were an advertiser, how could you be happy? Thousands are watching these channels on various social media platforms, taking eyeballs away from the game’s television feed.
I do not know what MLB can do about this in our technology-driven world, but I do know this, there is a lot of retransmitting and describing going on and games are ending, before they are ending.
Here are some other stories that caught my eye for Wednesday, July 30, 2025:
When it comes to MLB’s trade deadline on Thursday, I am hearing and reading a lot of “reportedly,” “coulds” and “mights.” And so far, outside of the McMahon trade to the Yankees, the deals that have come down have not been predicted by the “insiders.” Just sayin.’
In case you are wondering, in the name of marketing and selling merchandize, a lot of college football teams will be sporting new looks this season.
Sportico is reporting that former Milwaukee Bucks owner, billionaire Marc Lasry, is considering a bid to buy the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun. With rumors swirling that the Sun will be sold and relocated to a larger market, the franchise notified season ticket holders last week, they will return next season to play their games at Mohegan Sun Arena in southeast Connecticut.
Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families of Monday’s tragic shooting in New York City at a building that houses NFL headquarters.
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DAN