Clay Travis Is Right on TV Sports

It has become bewildering and costly to follow your favorite teams. You have to subscribe to multiple streaming services and/or cable TV.

A great example is the Atlanta Braves. The team makes at least some of its games available for broadcast, but none of the local stations in the Piedmont Triad airs them. Another regional example is the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team.

These leagues were given anti-trust protection many years ago by Congress. That means they face no competition. But now citizens are being gouged to generate huge amounts of cash flow for wealthy owners and players:

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6 thoughts on “Clay Travis Is Right on TV Sports”

  1. Bravo Mr. Travis.

    It is a shame that Piedmont TV airs no major league games.

    I have been to several Atlanta Braves games both home and away.

    I was in San Francisco in July 1966 and went to Candlestick Park to see the Braves take on the Giants.

    That day Tony Cloninger the Atlanta pitcher hit two grand slam homers.

    The price of admission was a whopping $2.50

    1. With regard to broadcast of Braves games, I think it would be profitable for a local TV station to take on that project. There is so much filler garbage polluting the airwaves, Fred.

      Going to MLB games creates great memories, Fred. I’m glad you have some good ones.

  2. I used to like college football. But I despise ESPN, who monopolizes so much of it. They undoubtedly reduce the audience for the college play-offs a lot from what it otherwise would be.

    But gosh, with the level of corruption seeping from all the tentacles of government spreading into every crevice of US life and US taxpayers forced to pay for all manner of evil, TV sports is an especially trivial concern.

    1. Yes, it is, J. Sobran.

      However, given the fact these leagues have been granted a privileged position by Congress, they ought to be accountable.

      Another pet peeve I have regarding pro sports is that many of them are using large numbers of foreign players– for instance, the MLB, NHL, PGA and NBA. That diminishes the opportunities for American players. That ought to be banned also if they are granted a monopoly here in the form of antitrust protection.

      1. Indeed, government special privileges to professional sports is another invisible bit of the fascist organization of our economy. Socialists never attack that. Just like Antifa and BLM and Occupy Wall Street never protest outside the CIA’s Langley HQ–to wit, never protest where the oppressive power actually resides.

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