And I mean “geeks” in a good way, although it seems they’re really trying to make the younger audience their key demographic by incorporating a new “social network” component.
I guess that’s a good thing, since the powers that be are always complaining that they’re losing the younger fans.
At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I must say that I find way too much repetition of programming. While I loved the idea of a baseball network when it was first announced, even then I was curious about how they would fill all that air time during the off-season. There’s only so much Intentional Talk you can watch. Even the documentaries are getting a bit stale. There are plenty of baseball films out there (the Hall of Fame has an annual film festival every fall) that the execs at the network could consider. Of course, I say that with no understanding of the rights and costs it would take to do that, but I think it’s worth looking into. Maybe even a show like Tosh 2.0, which seems to the the misanthropes version of America’s Funniest Videos. Gather up some viral baseball videos like these and make a half-hour program out of them:
There are a lot of high-quality videos out there and I’ll bet the creators would be thrilled to have their stuff shown to a wider audience than just YouTube.
I hearby let the MLB Network know I’m available to host such a program should they choose to bring it to the small screen.
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