MLBs abysmal playoff coverage somehow finds a way to hit a new low

OK, so you run a 75-year-old business that once thrived but has been losing popularity among your most devoted, longtime customers and their progeny. What do you do? 1) Ignore those customers’ complaints and advice? 2) Treat those complaints as quickly, smartly and long-term logically as possible? 3) Make your product even more difficult and expensive to endure, let alone purchase? Since roughly the start of this century, MLB and its national TV partners have annually chosen No.1 and No.

3.Taking their best customers for drooling, money-to-burn saps and gawkers of product logos attached to every sight has become MLB’s business model. Name one thing TV has done well — or even marginally better — during this postseason than previous postseasons.

Nada, si? What does now do or continues to do worse? Gotta a couple of hours? We’ve been through this, over and over.It doesn’t benefit anyone or anything. The host voices and analysts are either out to drown us in hype or bad info.

They talk far more than live TV logically demands. The views of live play are increasingly lost to in-game interviews; irrelevant, context-ignorant statistics; computerized, multi-colored lines tracking pitches and batted balls that allow audiences mere seconds to read, consider and apply — if they determine to read them to begin with. Oh, and endless crowd shots of fans waving hand towels that could be, for all we know and all they’re worth, file footage from the annual Diet Ginger Ale Festival in Lambertville, N.J.  Sign up for Starting Lineup for the biggest stories.Please provide a valid email address.

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