Mets-O's in the Hall of Fame game this summer

[stevejrogers]

Monday May 21st

Wonder when the tradition of doing it the day after the ceromony in July/August stopped.

My guess too late in the summer for pennant contending teams to do an exhibition game. Too bad, lot of Baltimore fans would be up for the inductions anyway, that was a cool thing if they had something like this, you'd to see a player representing your franchise (obviously this summer Cal Ripken, Jr.) and then got to see the current squad (or the B-Team and various minor leaguers) play an exhibition game.

Ah well...

[Guest KC]

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- The Toronto Blue Jays will replace the New York Mets as Baltimore's opponent in this year's Hall of Fame game on May 21.

The Mets and Orioles earlier were announced as opponents, but the change was made Friday after ESPN moved the Mets' game against the Yankees the previous day to an 8:05 p.m. start.

"With the Mets now playing on Sunday night, their travel schedule gave us no choice but to remove them from the game," baseball senior vice president Katy Feeney said.

Toronto also played Baltimore in the 1998 Hall of Fame game.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Just as well.

[stevejrogers]

Yet another example of the networks running baseball.

Yes I know it's plenty of months in advance and all, but really, what if between the time it took for the original annoucement to today a family decided to splurge on a non-refundable trip to Cooperstown to see the Mets that Monday.

Oh sure someone like me would still make the trip, visit the Hall and shops around Main Street in Cooperstown and MAYBE catch the game, but still. ESPN is being a quite dickish here

[stevejrogers]

Should also be pointed out that the coverage ESPN provides of the baseball hall and football hall are quite stark in contrast.

These days the baseball Hall is on ESPN CLASSIC, not ESPN and you hear commentary over speeches and such so you only hear the inductees themselves

However the Mothership, ESPN itself handles the Canton one a week later and you get EVERYTHING, the speeches, the speechs by those who are inducting them, and no cutting away to a setup of commentators talking.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Fuck ESPN.

Fuck E, fuck S, fuck P, and fuck N.

And fuck the NFL.

I think it's been said about 1000 times that the success of the NFL is not evidence that Major League Baseball is dying.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: Fuck ESPN. Fuck E, fuck S, fuck P, and fuck N. And fuck the NFL. I think it's been said about 1000 times that the success of the NFL is not evidence that Major League Baseball is dying.

Heh! Thats more of a point of how shabbly ESPN treats baseball more than anything to do with MLB dying.

Another case in point, the HOF game in football has ALWAYS been televised, granted it's the kickoff (pun intended) of the preseason rather than a mid-season exhibition but still

But as you said, or actually to steal a line from "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back"
Fuck ESPN, Fuck them them up their sweet asses!