This video may be a little irrelevant now that the Giants have signed on with Showtime to produce a 24/7 style of documentary series. Sully does make a larger point though that needs to be highlighted in the video. Watch.
Sully's larger point is that MLB does a terrible job marketing it's product and specifically marketing to a younger audience. The part about Youtube was spot on. How can a younger audience appreciate baseball when the league eliminates every clip on Youtube a few seconds after it's posted? You can watch full NBA and NFL games on Youtube while MLB erases highlight clips as soon as they're posted. And the reason why people go to Youtube is for they don't have to watch 30 seconds of commercials before the highlight begins playing.
Look I know MLB can claim they were the first sport to capitalize on the Internet by launching the first league website. Other leagues have caught up though. It's time for MLB to relax on eliminating uploaded baseball videos on Youtube. If they don't want those videos embedded for people can't copy and paste them onto blogs that's fine. If they don't want entire games posted on Youtube that's fine. But it is time to allow at least highlights onto Youtube and other video services. MLB is holding back their league by continuing this asinine video policy.
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ReplyDeleteI don't give a Frankenrat's ash what succeeding generations watch or don't watch, I got mine.
ReplyDeleteOr at least I'll get mine as soon as MLB releases the 2011 MLB - TV subscriptions.
Hurry up. Please. Pleeease.