What is the reason of the article about Major League Baseball Strikes Out — On Just One Pitch?
Every once in a while, an organization makes a blunder so breathtaking that it’s almost operatic. Major League Baseball has made such a blunder — one that combines the initial inexplicable gaffe and how they’ve compounded it. It’s turning into a textbook lesson on being tone deaf with your public. Pull up a chair. For several years, MLB.com has had the crown jewel of sports subscription services, Gameday Audio, which broadcasts every major league baseball game. It’s a smorgasbord of joy for baseball fans — 162 games, 30 teams, many in two languages. Probably around 8,000 broadcasts. Every season, MLB tries to change its media player. Each new one has had its benefits, along with glitches — though always missing the point that, at heart, people subscribe because they simply want to hear their distant, favorite teams. And then MLB made its blunder of epic proportions. It’s not that they once again changed media players. (Let’s say there was
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/major-league-baseball-str_b_185158.html Posted by Robert J. Elisberg on April 9, 2009 | 03:35 PM (EST) Major League Baseball Strikes Out — On Just One Pitch Every once in a while, an organization makes a blunder so breathtaking that it’s almost operatic. Major League Baseball has made such a blunder — one that combines the initial inexplicable gaffe and how they’ve compounded it. It’s turning into a textbook lesson on being tone deaf with your public. Pull up a chair. . . . And then MLB made its blunder of epic proportions. It’s not that they once again changed media players. (Let’s say there was a good reason.) It’s that — are you ready? — they changed it on Opening Day. Now, a moment to explain something if you’re not a baseball fan. There is something mythic about Opening Day. It signifies the end of the long darknes
