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Rockies and Padres Get Ridiculous, Play 22 Inning Marathon

Extra inning games are weird. When they first get going, you want to see some sort of resolution so you can go to sleep. But as a game goes to 15, 16, 17 innings and so forth, the masochist in me always comes out and hopes that the game hits that magic threshold of 20 innings ... even though I have to get up early the next...

Major League Baseball Needs To Fix Its Blackout Problem

And I'm not the first one to say it. Jeff Passan at Yahoo! Sports (making fun of that exclamation point will seriously never get old) tackled the issue yesterday, and he agrees. This has long been a problem for Major League Baseball's fans, especially for slightly out of market fans whose games come through regional...

Baseball Thinks About Getting into Reality TV

Apparently Major League Baseball's staring match with the cable companies paid off. As part of the agreement that saved MLB Extra Innings from being exclusive to DirecTV, MLB's baseball channel will be distributed to over 40 million U.S. households once it begins broadcasting in 2009. To put that in context, USA Today...

Democracy Wins! Cable Granted Access to 'Extra Innings'

Baseball will remain on cable after all! Major League Baseball and iN Demand, the group of cable companies consisting of Comcast, Cox and Time Warner, announced last night that they've come to a seven-year agreement to keep Extra Innings, MLB's out-of-market baseball package, on cable. But wait, what if you don't have...

MLB Lifts Deadline for 'Extra Inning' Discussions

Remember those last-minute negotiations between the cable companies and Major League Baseball we talked about yesterday? Turns out they're not so "last minute" at all -- MLB has done away with the deadline they set, which, if you read between the lines, suggests progress is being made toward preventing 'Extra Innings' from...

Extra Innings News From the Web

02/01/11 UPDATE: Homewood-Flossmoor Closings and Early... Source: Homewood-Flossmoor Patch - Homewood-Flossmoor IL The following list will be updated as new information becomes available.