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Clueless TBS has made🥂 ALCS unwatchable

🌠 Today we pause to give our eternal thanks to TBS for allowing us a few brief, presumably live moments of the last can’t-make-it-up inning of Thursday’s Yankees-G🔴uardians playoff game. 

 Vin Scully would be dumbfounded by today’s MLB broadcasters’ i🌠ncessant screaming ♐

The legendar🎉y Dodgers broadcast now must look down from his ethereal, misty broadcast booth to ask, “What❀ the heck happened?”

MLB's abysmal playoff coverage somehow finds a way to hit a new low

Taking their best customers for drooling, money-to-burn saps and gawওkers of product logos attached to every sight has become MLB’s🌜 business model.  

Playoffs can't keep MLB, networks from insulting their viewers

꧙ ⛄ This was a particularly difficult week to suffer what TV has become. 

Greed has made a mess of MLB pla🌳yoffs

This time MLB, with its glut of follow-the-money qualifiers, seems eager to do it again unless the biggest-market Mets or Dodgers and/or Yank𒁃ees, survive their managers.

There was nothing redeeming in Pete Rose's character

My only conversation with Pete Rose came in the early 1980s, when he was with the Phillies. And he started it. ✨

Ho🌞w to fix insufferable NFL pregame shows

I harbor a desire to produce an NFL pregame show, one differen🌄t from all the others as it would be — get this — interesting and entertaining.

Shohei Ohtani's historic season enabling MLB's money-first con

Unlike MLB, I’m not financially bound to believe anything declar𝄹ed by 𝄹Manfred’s office.

NFL's mistreatment of fans creating once unfathomable ticket reality

T൲here it was, last Sunday on Fox, during the Commanders-Giants game: an advertisement to purchase this season’s Giants tickets!

Sports world already has moved on from past concern for athletes' health

The “Never Forget” v💜ow is tossed around quite a bit. In sports, however, it takes minutes — until the next pitch, punt or power play. 

𝓡 Uncivilized behavior only making national referee epidemic worse

So give it some notice and thought Sunday, as you watch what TV and its NFL and MLB b🅠usiness partners continue to do to our sports. 𝓰

Penn State, ♑Notre Dame got just desserts for taking o🍎n cupcakes

 𓂃 A school and its money are soon parted.

𓄧 Sports fans keep getting taken advantage of — in꧋ more ways than one

TV judge Simon Cowell was seen in a commercial during Friday’s Yankees-Cuꦜbs on YES endorsing Domꦿino’s Pizza. As if ... What money can’t do, it will.

 Sports TV keeps disrespecting viewe🌞rs and this week is no exception

I had a sense of confusion over the weekend when CBS rolled out promos fo🎃r its “new” NFL pregame show.

Rise of legal gambling helping fuel fans' ugly behavior toward athletes

What do you suppose has driven the e💧scalation of “social” media put-downs, threats and unfettered hatred that has been aimed at pro tennis players?

ꩲ Sports TV remains bereft of digniꦺty and common sense 

Yes, I’ve become a grumpy old man. But what made me grumpy at 32 makes me grumpy at 72. There’s just nowཧ a lot more stuff 💫to make me grumpy.

Too many broadcasters have too much fluff rather th🤡an opting for sil♓ence

💜Ever consider whether game announcers return home after games to review their recorded work?

ESPN's disgusting influence is infiltrating Little League World Series

It was revolting yet not surprising given that ESPN has so assiduoꦺusly tried to devalue and diminish the LLWS since it first aimed a speed gun at 12-year-old pitchers after... 

What made 'Hawk Tuah Girl' first pitch for Mets even more shameful

It was Camp Day at Citi Field on Th꧟ursday afternoon, thousands of kids in the ballpark, So the Mets invited "Hawk Tuah" girl who had found sudden fame and following...  🌞

ESPN takeover sadly burౠies iconic radio network ꦯ

Since🌞 I was a kid, we’d gone everywhere together. Camp🐟, college, Cross Bronx Expressway. And I have no doubt that WCBS News Radio 880 played a role in my desire...